ScriptWorks 30/60/90 - 21 August 2013

Prompt:
Starting from a distant point in outer space, zoom in on your home.  Let your eye discover details that surprise you.-Katie Pearl, writer/director/performer

Response:

PETER, 59, wearing a sweat soaked tee-shirt, shorts, white socks, and black leather dress shoes, comes in from the outdoors.
TAMMY, 55, dressed in a house dress, sits in an arm chair reading.

TAMMY
All done?

PETER
I still got the back to do.

TAMMY
Well, get something to drink and cool off for a few minutes.

PETER
I do need something to drink, but then right back at it.

TAMMY
(scolding slightly)
Peter, it’s a hundred degrees out there.

PETER
One-oh-two.

TAMMY
Cool off.

PETER
I’m tough.  I can take it.

Peter does his best strong man impression and adds a roar at the end.

TAMMY
(rolling her eyes)
Yea... you’re a real animal...
(under her breath, but loud enough for Peter to hear)
...Or an idiot.

PETER
Hey!  I resemble that remark.

TAMMY
Definitely... idiot.

Peter smiles.

PETER
I did make a great discovery.

TAMMY
(skeptical)
Oh, yea?

PETER
You know we’ve had a lot of cockroaches in the house this summer.

TAMMY
(cautiously curious)
Yea...?

PETER
Six inch tall grass is the perfect hiding place for them.

TAMMY
Ohhhh... that’s disgusting.

PETER
Turns out, if you don’t cut the grass all summer because of watering restrictions...

TAMMY
I still don’t get that.

PETER
Longer grass keeps the roots and soil cooler.

TAMMY
Uh-huh.

PETER
Anyway, turns out it also keeps the cockroaches cooler and gives ‘em a great place to hide and breed.

TAMMY
That’s disgusting!

PETER
Yup... Save water, save the grass, save the cockroach.

TAMMY
Make that a quick drink.  You got the back to cut.

Curtain.