Telephone.
cog:
Hello?
Telephone.
cog:
Oh hiya, how’s things?
Telephone.
cog:
Yeah yeah not bad I guess yeah. I’m just uhm, I’ve been lying in bed, reading,
drinking, you know,
Telephone.
cog:
No no no God no I can’t stomach white at all, far too dry. A glass of red’s
what you need on a night like this, to keep you warm. Fuck it’s cold.
Telephone.
cog:
Exactly exactly, purely medicinal. It’s that cheap shit that turns your teeth
black too.
Laughter.
Telephone.
cog:
I know I know, but Stephen had said he’d be around every day until the
end of this week, but he hasn’t bee-
Telephone.
cog:
Nope, not at all. I even asked at the office and they said he hasn’t been in at
all. He hasn’t been in once, bastard.
Telephone.
cog:
Well, a wasted journey’s a journey wasted or some oh fuck wait wait wait
listen, listen to this. Okay, because, because of all that and everything I
thought, you know, I thought since I was already blah blah blah
Telephone.
cog:
I would go to the movies right, is it you or Lynne that hasn’t seen “E.T.” yet?
Telephone.
cog:
Oh no really, you’re kidding? I really enjoyed it you know, for no not
even that, I
Telephone.
cog:
I thought uhm
Telephone.
cog:
No no no I loved all that, I loved the Biblical parallels, but forget about
that jus-
Telephone.
cog:
and the sacred heart thing, and the setting the animals free thing
Telephone.
cog:
Oh shit, no I didn’t get to well that’s ruined for
Telephone.
cog:
No I’m kidding I’m just kidding but uhm, what happened was, about about halfway
through, or you know just after the Hallowe’en thing and he’s disappeared in
the forest? And the brother goes out looking for him and uhm finds him in the
river and he’s all, there’s this shot of him all pale and lying in the river
Telephone.
cog:
Yeah and uhm kind of unhealthy looking, and suddenly I feel this thunk! in my
back and popcorn i- on my neck and the back of my head and I’m thinking “Oh fuck
off”, remember? That thing when we went to see
Telephone.
cog:
Exactly, but this time there was a bit of a commotion of some sort and it turns
out some little girl’s fainted.
Telephone.
cog:
No no she was apparently she was just so distressed at this at uhm E.T. in such
a state boom! she faints in her seat and popcorn fucking everywhere.
Telephone.
cog:
Yeah there was a bit of uhm, the usher came over with his torch and we weren’t
too far from the back anyways, so I climbed over and helped them get her out
into the foyer, and they got her some water and got her calmed down a bit.
Telephone.
cog:
Not uhm, and then you know when she came round she she uhm, oh actually I felt
really sorry for her, and her head was quite badly swollen from when she where
she’d smacked it off my seat but! and here’s the really weird thing: guess who the
kid was.
Telephone.
cog:
Uh-huh, and guess who she was.
Telephone.
cog:
Remember Miss Gordon from school?
Telephone.
cog:
Her daughter.
Laughter.
cog:
I swear to God I didn’t even notice her until you know, I’d helped get the kid
out of the theatre and it wasn’t uhm, you know, I looked up and there’s Miss
Gordon, except she’s not Miss Gordon now she’s married and all and she
has two kids but... unreal.
Telephone.
cog:
Yeah, two daughters and
Telephone.
cog:
Well, we only chatted a little and uhm, she’s married, she has two daughters
and she’s now teaching high school math a-
Telephone.
cog:
Actually I was really surprised she remembered me at all but uhm yeah, so now I
have a couple of free tickets since I, the manageress uhm you know, once I’d
after all that I just didn’t feel like trying to get back into it, but the
manageress gave me a couple of free tickets for helping out so
Telephone.
cog:
I thought so yeah, so I just came back here, opened the wine and uhm... What
the hell are you calling me about anyways?
