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Monologue
Mania Day #283 by Janet S. Tiger Pockets Out Nov. 22, 2014
Pockets Out
(for the Senior Channel)
A monologue by Janet S.
Tiger © all rights reserved
tigerteam1@gmail.com
(A man comes onstage with his pant pockets pulled out. He takes his hands
and pushes them back in)
That's
it, that's why I am here on this TV show, to show everyone the secret to
success in life. It’s very easy.
Let
me show you again.
He
puts his hands into his pockets and pulls them out again, then puts them back
in)
(He turns to leave, hears someone, stops)
Oh,
why does it work? Simple! This is exactly what my pops taught me a
long time ago. He said his father taught him, back when they bought their
first washing machine, which was a very big deal in those days. When
everyone had been told to empty out their pockets before they put their pants
in the wash, or else there would be trouble.
When
someone in the family had left an ink pen in their pocket and it had leaked all
over the whole family's Sunday go to church clothing.......which someone
happened to be my father, and who expected to get a good whupping when it
turned out the ink pen was his very own Eversharp Skyline fountain pen.
It
turns out that when things got left in the pockets, they messed up the
wash.....What things? I asked my pops. Things like marbles and chewing
gum candy bars and food you didn't want to eat at dinner and change and folding
dollars, well bills may not have messed up the wash, but it did make them
harder to spend…..and ink pens, which leak all over everything, and there would
be trouble, because that’s the way it was in those days.
And
he told me he was expecting his whupping from his father, and his father took
him into the basement, and told him that anyone can make a mistake, the secret
is learning how not to repeat that mistake with a simple system that would
work.......then his father showed him how to make sure nothing was in the
pockets, and it was fun, and it was easy.....all you had to do was.....
(He pulls out the pockets again)
Simple,
and lots of fun to do! All the stuff in your pockets falls on the floor
and makes a big noise! Hey, I was three years old, everything that makes
noise is fun at that age.
And
he told me that if I could do that my whole life, in other words, figure out a
system to avoid problems and then follow those directions consistently, every
time, for this one thing that made someone's life easier, then my life would be
easier - meaning, it would save my mother time and she would not be mad if
something bad got in the wash. And when I did the wash for myself one day, it
would save me. Consistency. If I could do that, then I could
do.....ANYTHING! consistently. Show up on time for school, do my
homework, pay my taxes on time.......keep my promises. I would avoid
problems and be dependable. And it was so easy......
(He turns out his pockets again, puts them back in)
So,
throughout my life, whenever I faced a problem that needed a simple, easy
solution, I just pulled the pockets out until I figured out that solution......
(He smiles and pulls the pockets out now with a great flourish)
And
it still is fun!
(He turns to leave, stops, looks back)
And
you know what, it still works!
(He walks offstage, pulling his pockets in and out.
The end of weird stuff in the wash!)
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Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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