by Sinatra » Thu May 24, 2007 7:13 am
This is from Office Space. I like his moxy.
PETER
Hi, I'm Peter.
JOANNA
Hi. How can I help you?
PETER
What are you doing for lunch today?
JOANNA
Well, our specials are barbecued chicken - it's actually right over
there on the board. (points) Excuse me.
She goes to take orders.
BRIAN
Hey! Look who's back! Table for three, to -
Peter shoves him out of his way and goes over to Joanna.
PETER
I was asking what you were doing for lunch. Would you like to have
lunch with me?
JOANNA
Oh, are you serious? Yeah, I don't , I don't think I'm supposed to do
that.
PETER
Oh. I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go next door and get a
table and if you'd like to join me, no big deal. All right? And if not,
that's cool too. Ok?
He starts to walk away.
JOANNA
Uh, when you say "next door", do you mean Chili's or Flingers?
PETER
Flingers.
JOANNA
Ok.
[Scene Flingers. Peter is saving a table and Joanna enters.]
JOANNA
Hi.
PETER
Hey.
JOANNA
I wonder if they will let me wear this in here.
PETER
I think it would be ok. Would you like to sit down?
He motions to a chair.
JOANNA
Ok. (does so) Wow. This place is really nice.
PETER
Yeah, is it?
JOANNA
Oh my God, compared to Chotchkie's. I like the uniforms better anyways.
PETER
I like yours.
JOANNA
Nah. (makes a face
Peter looks at the buttons' wearing on his suspender. One says We're
not in Kansas anymore. The one underneath says POOF.
PETER
"We're not in Kansas anymore."
JOANNA
Yeah. Really. (laughs
PETER
It's on your - (points
JOANNA
Oh! That's, uh, that's uh, my pieces of flair.
PETER
What are pieces of flair?
JOANNA
That's where you know, suspenders and buttons and all sorts of stuff.
We're, uh, we're actually required to wear fifteen pieces of flair.
quite stupid actually.
PETER
Do you get to pick them out yourself?
JOANNA
Yeah. Yeah. Although I didn't actually choose these. I, uh, I just
grabbed fifteen buttons and, uh, I don't even know what they say!
Y'know, I don't really care. I don't really like talking about my
flair.
PETER
Ok.
JOANNA
So, where do you work, uh, Peter?
PETER
Initech.
JOANNA
And, uh, what do you do there, Peter?
PETER
I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.
JOANNA
NODS) WHAT'S THAT?
PETER
You see, they wrote all this bank software and to save space, they put
98 instead of 1998. So I go through these thousands of lines of code
and uh, it doesn't really matter. I, uh, I don't like my job. I don't
think I'm gonna go anymore.
JOANNA
You're just not gonna go?
PETER
Yeah.
JOANNA
Won't you get fired?
PETER
I don't know. But I really don't like it so I'm not gonna go.
JOANNA
LAUGHS) SO YOU'RE GONNA QUIT?
PETER
No, no, not really. I'm just gonna stop going.
JOANNA
When did you decide all that?
PETER
About a week ago.
JOANNA
Really?
PETER
Oh, yeah.
JOANNA
Ok. So, so you're gonna get another job?
PETER
I don't think I 'd like another job.
JOANNA
LAUGHS) SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT MONEY AND BILLS?
PETER
Y'know, I never really liked paying bill? I don't think I'll do that
either.
JOANNA
LAUGHS) SO WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?
PETER
I want to take you out for dinner and then I wanna go to my apartment
and watch Kung Fu. Did you ever watch Kung Fu?
Joanna gets a weird look on her face.
JOANNA
I love Kung Fu...
PETER
Channel 39.
JOANNA
Totally...
PETER
You should come over and watch Kung Fu tonight.
JOANNA
Ok...
PETER
Great.
JOANNA
Ok. Can we order lunch first?
PETER
Yeah.
JOANNA
Ok.
It is better to try, best to succeed than sitting alone watching/reading porn.