I Cheat at Wordle a monologue by Janet S. Tiger (c) Oct 9, 2022

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                                      I Cheat at Wordle  a monologue by Janet S. Tiger  (c)  Oct 9, 2022

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            (Woman comes onstage, she is holding a cellphone)

 

I cheat at Wordle

There I said it

I cheat at Wordle

So the hell what?

I'm not in a contest or anything!

All the other people playing could cheat if they wanted, but when I tell them I cheat,they say (imitates)  ' but you are only cheating yourself!'

Jeez!  ....for some reason they have not figured something out - when you play against yourself, so what if you are cheating? 

You aren't cheating some old lady out of her life savings!  Or even cheating a bank.....if you are playing against yourself,  so no matter how you play......YOU ARE ALWAYS GOING TO WIN!

So you might as well do the best win you can…..and as for playing fair..

My mother taught me a long time ago…..before she couldn’t feed herself ...Or recognize me….she taught me that life isn’t fair.  She was right……

                    (Puts hand to ear and listens)

How do I cheat?

How hard is it to figure out how to cheat?

You play one game on your phone - and you play another on your computer

It gives you more chances

So, on one of them, if you need, you take all six shots

Then you use that info on the other game.

Easy peasy!

Sometimes you can get it in less than six tries, then they tell you ..(mimics)   Impressive! 

What the hell does that mean?  It's impressive if you  don't go crazy waiting for someone to finish their dinner.  It's impressive if you don't scream at the doctor who keeps you waiting for an hour then just gives you five minutes!   It’s impressive if you can figure out how new cell phone works…… No, impressive is not the word I want to hear.

(Shakes head, then smiles)

But you see, in Wordle,  if you get the word in less than six tries on one game, you can put that winning word in on the very first try on the other game!

And then, (very happy) they will tell you  that you are ....a genius!  

Just what I need to hear at the end of a day full of changing bandages and fixing food and bedpan emptying.  I didn’t cheat on any of those things!  I did them right.  I finished each job perfectly. 

I don’t get a prize for that….. (sad) And although, somewhere in there, I know my mother appreciates it all…..  I don’t even get paid……(sighs)

(Thinking, now happy)  But ….Genius!

The word resonates in my brain!

It even allows me the chance to go to sleep like a baby, with thepleasant washing of that in my ears......G...e....n...i...u....s.....

Like Madame Curie!  Like Albert Einstein!  Like..... Lady Gaga!

                 (Back to reality) 

So if all of you want to (very sarcastic) want to ...play fair.  Go ahead.

Be merely....... impressive.  

                (Turns to leave, stops, looks back)

Me....I will be a ...say it with me......Genius!  (gets everyone to say genius)  Genius!  GENIUS!

                (She smiles and walks off happy)

 

    

Different Path (c) a monologue by Janet S. Tiger

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Different Path 

a monologue by Janet S. Tiger September 18th 2022 copyright All Rights Reserved Tigerteam1@gmail.com 

 

(Woman comes on stage. Or best would be if the lights go up just to see her. Either way we know this is a woman who has gone through something very big. Before she starts she takes a very deep breath and exhales slowly)

 Why do things change?

 I mean you do something day after day for weeks.. a month ...years maybe ..and then all of a sudden one day you don't do it anymore -you don't walk down the street in one direction...suddenly you take a different path. 

And then the next day you go down that different path again and all of a sudden something has changed.

 Something is different. I think that's the same with... when you love someone.

 Maybe....Maybe one day you wake up and that person isn't the same person anymore. It's kind of a funny thing and you can't even put your finger on it why something has changed....why someone has changed. 

Was it the new cologne? Or the fact that's suddenly ...after all these years... he is putting on a fresh pair of underwear everyday?

All I know is that.. I knew.

 And it was different. 

And I was not sure why but I knew.

 He didn't love me anymore.

(Getting annoyed) 

 

But it wasn't his fault!..(almost hissing)-it was her fault!

 (Trying to be calmer) I don't know what she did, but it was different between me and him. 

And I knew that maybe I would never walk down that path again and.. something in me changed. Just like he was different now I was different.

Kind of like you have a candle burning not a giant candle... just a small one..... but it's been burning for a long time and it doesn't have a big flame but the flame is steady and then all of a sudden... along comes a breeze .....and you don't even know where the breeze came from and the candle flickers and you think for a minute it's going to stay on but then it is out.

 After all the years of burning even in the middle of a storm!.. with big gusts of wind it kept burning.....(intense) ..but somehow this little whisper of a wind ..and ...it's out. 

 

And you have no more matches to light it and even if you did the wick is all bent over .. finished.. any warmth from that glow is gone . ...

(She takes a deep breath)

And do I regret it?

I regret only that she's the reason I changed.

 If it was a car I could have handled it ...if it was some food he liked maybe a different kind of ice cream... or...or instead of pizza with mushrooms... he switches to anchovies (She shudders a little) ......yes I could have accepted even that.. but ...it wasn't food and it wasn't a car.... (hissing)..it was her. 

And I knew it.... (she takes a very very deep breath)... and that's why I had to kill her.....your honor.

 

(She stops, bows her head -lights out)