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31 March 2008

Diamond Wedding Anniversary

INT Thai Restaurant, afternoon. Adelaide.


LILI, MUM and GRANDMA are putting out place-cards at the table. A WAITRESS is doing something with prawn crackers.


GRANDMA

We can’t put Barbara and Ley on that side of the 

table, because they won’t be able to get out with

 their walking-sticks.


MUM

But if we put them there, then Auntie Peg won’t be 

able to talk to Mary.


GRANDMA

But if Peg is there, then she’ll have to sit next to 

Dennis, and she won’t like that.


WAITRESS

I don’t have a grandma.


LILI

If Mum and I are round there, we’ll have to clamber

 over everyone to get out and make our speech 

and run the slideshow.


GRANDMA

But if Kat and Brian are there, they won’t be able 

to go outside to smoke.


LILI

So?


WAITRESS

My grandma is in Cambodia. I never met her.


MUM

Put us on the end.


GRANDMA

Make sure you’re next to your Dad, Carole.


MUM

Wouldn’t it be better if you were next to me?


GRANDMA

Why?


MUM

Because you talk so much, and you’re stuck in the 

corner. Dad never talks to anyone, and he’s in 

the middle.


LILI

So why don’t we move them over there?


WAITRESS

You’re so lucky to have a grandma.


GRANDMA

No, because we can’t move Barbara and Ley. 

It can’t be done.


The WAITRESS starts to cry.


MUM

So let’s just swap you and Dad.


LILI

But then it won’t be gender-balanced! For the love 

of Godit has to be boy-girl!


SILENCE, except for the choking sobs of the WAITRESS.

3 comments:

limeywesty said...

What did you guys do for the waitress?

genevieve said...

Oh DEAR.
It reads like a film, Lili.

lili said...

yeah. i didn't even get to the bit where my 89 year old grandfather got so tanked that he was sick in the restaurant and then in the corridor and then in the bathroom and then in the gutter and then in the car and then back at home. so tanked, in fact, that he VOMITED UP HIS DENTURES.

it was a great night, really.