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Scene is set; Mother, Alice and Brother are sat around the table in the kitchen, faces set with competitive concentration as they stare down at the scrabble board in front of them (well, Brother and Mother's are; Alice has little chance of winning, and thus is simply having fun). Presently, Brother, who's turn it is (and who is determined to make use of a particularly inhospitable spot that is enticingly labelled as 'treble word score'), speaks...
BROTHER: (after very long pause) how do you spell 'jot'? Does it have two T's or one?
ALICE: (pondering) um...one, I think. ...Yeah. One, I'm pretty sure it's one. Mother?
MOTHER: (a little absently, concentrating on her letters) er, yep, it is spelled j-o-t. Unless you have 'jotted' something down, in which case, it uses two: j-o-t-t-e-d.
BROTHER: (mutters something under his breath) ...well, how about 'jut'?
MOTHER: same principle: j-u-t, or j-u-t-t-e-d.
BROTHER: (after very long pause) oh, bollocks!
MOTHER & ALICE: (instinctively in unison) ...and that would be: b-o-l-
BROTHER: (sarcastically) ...oh, ha ha, very funny...
Scene ends; with the whole family exchanging glances and dissolving into helpless laughter, which lasts for quite some time and is engrossing enough to temporarily stall the game.
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