Jack And Jill Plays - Part 34 - Birthday

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Birthday

by Adam Szymkowicz



(JACK at a table, glum.  Enter JILL carrying a cake.)



JILL

Happy Birthday!



JACK

Thanks!  Yeah.  Thanks.



JILL

You're old.



JACK

I'm old.



JILL

So you gonna have a mid life crisis now?



JACK

Thanks for bringing that up.  I've been thinking about that a lot actually.  Should I start a motorcycle gang?  Change my hair?  Dress young?  Pierce my eyebrow?    And I decided after a lot of thought not to do anything.



JILL

No?



JACK

No.  I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing until I die.



JILL

It sounds like you've given up.



JACK

Yeah.  I -- maybe yeah.  But why change?  It won't make a difference.



JILL

I got a tattoo.



JACK

You did?  Let me see.



(She shows him.)



JACK

Oh.  Yeah.  Look at that.  That's cool.



JILL

You want to get one?



JACK

No.  I don't know.  No.  Maybe.  No.  Maybe a dump truck.



JILL

A dump truck?



JACK

On my arm.



JILL

A dump truck?



JACK

You're right.



JILL

I mean maybe.



JACK

Let's just eat the cake.



(JILL hands him a fork.  He begins to eat the cake.)



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