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SCENE 4. INT – LIVING ROOM
Adolf is leant forward in his chair reading the paper. He picks up a red pen and circles the newspaper.
Jonas comes in dressed in an outrageous silver jacket, Bowie would be envious. He sits on the couch.
JONAS
What you doing?
ADOLF
Panicking. You do realise that come the end of this month we are going to owe three months rent to Mr Zimner. Not to mention this months bills as well as the money we owe Lauren. She is actually going to kill us when she finds out we have lost our (LOOKS UP) is that a new laptop?
JONAS
Yeah, groovy isn't it?
ADOLF
Where did you get it?
JONAS
Adolf it's the twenty first century, laptops are like STD's; everybody's got one.
ADOLF
I meant whom did you get it from?
JONAS
Oh. Dangerous Dave.
ADOLF
You mean Akhmed the Turkish kebab shop owner? Akhmed the Turkish kebab shop owner that has just come out of prison for stealing electronics?
JONAS
Yeah that's the one.
ADOLF
Akhmed is one of the biggest scam artists there is. Do you ever
JONAS
(INTERRUPTING) Dangerous Dave, everyone calls him Dangerous Dave.
ADOLF (sarcastically)
I don't care what you and your Facebook friends call him. He is still a scum bag?
JONAS
You can't keep attacking Facebook. I keep telling you; giving it this and that about Facebook will get you killed. Everyone loves it, it's like a new people's princess.
ADOLF
What? How can you even begin to
JONAS
(INTERRUPTING) What's wrong with Facebook then?
ADOLF
Well apart from being a total waste of time, it's turning our youth into a mumbling bunch of idiots. It is destroying the art of conversation.
JONAS
(MIMICKING) It's destroying the art of conversation.
ADOLF
I do not sound like that.
JONAS
(LAUGHS) And who exactly do you have 'arty conversations' with? I've seen you try and have conversations with strangers; it'd be like watching President Obama give a BNP speech, awkward.
ADOLF
I
The front door knocks interrupting Adolf. Jonas and Adolf look at each other.
JONAS
(LOOKS BACK AT THE LAPTOP) Door.
ADOLF
(GETTING TO HIS FEET) Yeah I heard it. I don't quite (WALKING TOWARDS THE DOOR) understand why I always have to get the door but
JONAS
(INTERRUPTING) Because your the one who likes conversation.