Dinner

Sheila you havent touched your asparagus

You know what tom maybe I'm jus-just-sorta-

maybe I'm not in the mood for asparagus tonight

You love asparagus why arent you eating

You know I don't know tom

Why don't you tell me why I'm not eating

Jesus Christ what's your problem I

Wanted to come out and have a nice dinner

Oh, yeah no, nonono, I'm so glad you took us out here tom

Thanks soo much for bringing us out

Here and having this great dinner together

I-I I'm thrilled

I′m thrilled

Youre being sarcastic

Oh no, nooo no I'm not being sarcastic

I'm so happy to be here

K-great to be here tom

Ok what?

What the hell is going on here?

what's your problem?

You wanna know what my problem is tom?

You wanna know what my problem is?

We′re sitting here

We're spending

Ridiculous amounts of money on a steak

When you know damn well we can't afford it

Jesus Christ is this what this is abou-

Is this what this is about?

This is what our entire lives is about tom

don't sit here and act stupid telling

Me you don't know what I'm talkin′ about

Jesus Christ can you just lower your voi-

Sh (interrupting, louder): Oooh yeah lemme lower my voice for you tom

Let me make it-let me just make everything ok by

Lowering my voice I wont cause a scene here tom

Certainly wont wanna embarrass you in this restaurant

Jeez-scuse me could we get the cheque please?

Oohh yeah that's-that's a great idea, lets get the cheque

Yeah lets ruin this evening

Just like youve ruined every other evening for the past eight months

What the fuck is this about sheila?

What the fuck is this about?

Maybe its about the fact that we havent been able

To afford our mortgage payments for almost a year!

Dyknow what that does to me?

Dyknow what that's doing to us?

Jesus Christ we′re I- listen ok I I ca-

I've been out of work for a few months its not a-

For a few months?

Jesus Christ you are the king of

Understatements tonight tom, the king

You know how long youve been out of work, eight months

Dyknow any idea what we owe on this house?

No!

No you don't because you don't look at the goddamn bills!

I sit there every night with my head buried in a pile of this shit

Chocolates in my left hand, bwuh

A glass of wuh- of red wine in my right hand, yknow what we owe?

You have any idea what we owe on the house?

No I jus- I thought maybe we just sit here and joy-

I mean maybe cn we maybe talk about this after dinner?

Oh yes

Yes

Definitely tom

Everythings ok now

Because you said, can we talk about this after dinner

I tell you what

We go back home, and in the meantime we're just gonna act like

Nothings wrong, we′re just gonna sit here

Have dinner and we'll just talk about it after

We′ll talk about it after tom

Alright would you just settle down Sheil-

We owe a hundred-and twenty

Thousand dollars, on the house

A hundred and twenty thousand dollars tom!

Butchu wouldnt know about that wouldchu

You wouldnt know that because not only have you not lifted a finger

To look at the bills

You also havent lifted a finger to get yous-

Yourself some fucking work over the past year

So we can't afford anything!

We can't afford this dinner! (crying) we can't afford our lives

And we can't afford the clothes on our

Childrens backs because you can't work!

You can't fucking work tom!

TThank you

Thank you very mu- no you can relax, heres the card thank you

Thank you

Sheila listen, I I I I I didnt mean to make y-

You didnt mean to make me upset??

Yknow youve made me very upset tom!

I'm sitting-we′re sitting here in the

Middle of dinner, youve made me extremely upset!

And now I'm ugh-

No no its just a- sheila can you

Jus wait we're gonna get out of her-

I can′t wait!

I can't wait now we′re here!

We're here and its dark!

And I don't give a shit if we embarrass ourselves ok?!

Yeah that's right!

Oh everyone quiet down!

Everyone quiet down 'cause now youre

Listening to the couple that's arguing!

Oh good job!

Now everyones arguing erryones hangry an jus-

Sheila jus g-

You calm down!

You calm down tom!

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