Interior: kitchen table where ANNIE is looking at stacks of teen magazines. MOTHER is goodnaturedly offering food to her beloved only child
ANNIE: You can read some of these if you want. I would write captions for stuff like this (points to magazine column)
MOTHER: Okay! This will be fun! (flips through magazine) Honey? (a beat)
ANNIE: Yesh?
MOTHER: What is a metrosexual?
ANNIE: Um.
MOTHER: Is that gay? Does that mean gay? Or is it something to do with—oh my god, sex on the subway, that's not sanitary...
ANNIE: No no no. Although that would be unsanitary; you know, I hate even touching the poles.
MOTHER: Oh no, metrosexual means pole dancing in the subway!
ANNIE: No, no, mom—it's just a made-up term.
MOTHER: Does it mean gay?
ANNIE: No, it, um, it's kinda lame but it's a term that describes straight men who do traditionally "gay" things.
MOTHER: Like parades?
ANNIE: No, like, I don't know, they use fancy shave cream. And they wear expensive jeans, and get manicures and stuff. That sort of thing.
MOTHER: Ohhhh. (conspiratorially) Do they get their assholes waxed?
ANNIE: Uh— (starts writing this stuff down verbatim)
MOTHER: Because you know, some women do that! Brazil waxes, they're called.
ANNIE: Yes, Mom, I know about that.
MOTHER: And I'm wondering if maybe these men, maybe they get their assholes waxed too.
ANNIE: I really have no idea.
MOTHER: I think that would hurt. And you know, the men would have a different kind of pain if the wax went in the wrong spots.
ANNIE: (laughing, tears in eyes, switching between horror and hilarity) I... I don't know...
MOTHER: Well, I certainly wouldn't—Annie, what are you doing? Are you writing this down?!
ANNIE: Um, yeah.
MOTHER: Don't you tell people! You always make fun of your mother!
ANNIE: No, it's that you're funny, you do funny things unintentionally.
MOTHER: I don't see what's so funny about waxing assholes!
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