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-------------------------------------------------------------I've continued with a monologue a day until the spirit moves me to stop, so if you have any ideas for a monologue you want me to write, please let me know at tigerteam1@gmail.com.
If you just started this blog and want to read the earlier monologues-
For a list of the titles and blurbs from each day, click here There are now over 700!
Get more great award-winning monologues - MonologueZone.com
If you'd like to write your own monologues, I happen to have a book for that -
How to Write a Monologue in 10 Easy Lessons (Well, maybe not so easy)
Thank you for your comments - and for liking and sharing this site. Wishing you much success!
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Monologue Mania Day # 716 by Janet S. Tiger Jan. 28, 2016
You Were Right!
You Were Right!
by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved tigerteam1@gmail.com
(A middle-aged woman comes onstage, she is
looking at some papers and shaking her head sadly)
Okay, Dad, I get it.
I got the lesson. I know you think I never learn anything from you,
that I don't listen - and maybe you've been right. Maybe I shouldn't have
married Toby.....but then of course I wouldn't have the grandchildren you love
so much, so maybe that wasn't such a bad mistake.
But maybe I shouldn't
have let Toby invest all our money in that crazy scheme - heated toilet seats
for people who didn't want frozen hineys in the morning.
Okay, so life has been
a struggle since then, and you've helped us - helped us a lot. And you've
taught me a lot about the stock market. More than I could have learned in
school, because you've had all these years of experience.
Maybe I didn't listen,
but now I do, and I think it's time you listened to me. You have lost
lots of money because you are not following your own rules. You are
putting all your money into three stocks, not diversifying like you taught me.
You are buying at the
high because someone told you it was a good idea! A man on TV. That
crazy man who screams at people all day and makes millions on a TV show telling
other suckers like you....I mean investors like you - how you should invest
your hard-earned money!
(Getting louder)
And you listen to HIM! Not to ME! Me who has studied your
system - WHICH WORKS IF YOU USE IT! Who begged you not to buy thousands
of shares of a stock at its HISTORIC HIGH POINT because you warned me NEVAH
NEVAH NEVAH buy a stock at its high point!
Who begged you to sell
calls on it, so that JUST IN CASE it did not go up, you would have some income
and you told me that IDIOT on TV said the stock was going up another ten
points. So you didn't want to ENCUMBER the stock with calls so you could
take advantage of the ten dollar increase..........and you DIDN'T LISTEN TO ME!
(Calms a bit)
And he was right about
the ten points - but in THE WRONG DIRECTION! It dropped ten points, then
another ten points and then ANOTHER ten points and you are shitting
bricks - on a cold toilet I may add - because all your money is tied up and
somehow, somewhere, somewhy.....it is MY FAULT! Because you helped me,
and I suggested what to do - which was YOUR OWN ADVICE just
told back to you......, and you didn't do it....so now it is my fault because I.......
(She thunps her chest wildly)
I.....didn't convince you!
I can't win!
(Listens, laughs, shakes head)
Yes, Dad, you are
right. You always told me amateurs never win in the stock market.
Once again.....you are right.....
(Turns to leave, stops, looks back)
I'll have dinner ready
in five minutes......
(She exits to the real world)
Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315
JanetSTigerMonologueMania.blogspot.com
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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1 comment:
Wow. Hard-hitting!
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