Skits

Day 137 (229) – A Play a Day in May #17

Have a Good One

 

Location: Diner

Characters: Bill, Greg, and Barry

 

[The scene starts with all three guys sitting around, wrapping up a conversation.]

Barry: Well guys, I better be heading out.  My girl is going into labor, we’re about to have our first born child!

[Barry gets up to leave.]

Greg: Have a good one, man.

[Barry stops, and turns back around.]

Barry: Wait, what did you say to me?
Bill (under his breath): Here we go.
Greg: I… I just said, “have a good one.”
Barry: A good one what?  Huh?  What do you want me to have that’s good?  You saying you want me to have a good pregnancy?  Just because I work at Frank’s Beef and Candy shop, I need some yuppie like you to tell me to have a good one?
Greg: No… I was… I was just saying have a good one, like have a good day.
Barry: Ohhhh, so now you’re telling me what to do, huh?  Like I wasn’t gonna try to have a good day before, but now that the all powerful Greg has commanded me to have a good day, I have to?  You think just because I work at Frank’s Beef and Candy Shop, and my girl and I are about to have a child, even though we aren’t married, that you’re better than us and control when I will and won’t have a good day?
Greg: I’m… sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you.  Look I know you gotta be getting to the hospital so you don’t miss the birth of your child… Good luck, man.
Barry: Good luck?  You just want me to serve you a beating don’t you?  A preppy boy from a rich family is bestowing his good fortune on me by wishing me good luck.  Ooooh, just because I work at Frank’s Beef and Candy shop, and me and my girl about to have a pre-marital child, and she works at the Baby Gap in the mall, and there’s a 50% chance that the kid ain’t even mine, you think I need you to spare some of your good luck around like I’m a hobo looking for quarters?
Bill: Barry, Barry.  What he’s just trying to say is “bye.”

Barry: Oh…, well damn, why didn’t you just say that?

FADE TO BLACK

 

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This skit started out much more about the idea of wishing someone a “good day” and how that adds too much added pressure (which also makes me wonder if it’s insulting to say to someone, “Have a day”), but it turned into some guy just being quite ridiculous.

 

I think that it could gone any number of ways towards the end, so I may have to revisit the conclusion of this one again some time.