'Moment'
(A tale of today)
An office in Anytown
Scene: A girl enters and walks to the manager's desk -
Girl: Can you spare me a moment?
Manager: Of course my dear, all the time you want.
Girl: Please don't call me your dear - I'm not! I am Brenda
Bunglehoff, and I am my own person.
Manager: I am sure you are, Miss Bunglehoff, and I had no intention
of suggesting you weren't.
Girl: Miss? Miss! How infuriatingly denigrating that is; it
emphasises the fact that I am still single, and suggests that
I am incapable of getting a husband. It's Ms Bunglehoff, if
you don't mind - Mizz, Mizz! And what do you mean, you
have all the time I want? Are you suggesting we spend time
together outside of working hours?
Manager: Not in the least. I was simply replying to your initial
question with a standard nicety. What was it you wanted to
see me about anyway?
Girl: It's gone out of my head for a moment. Your innuendos and
sexual advances have quite thrown me off-balance.
Manager: Innuendos and sexual advances? Are you completely mad?
Girl: Insulting me too, are you? I wish we had a witness to this
conversation, I'd sue you for thousands.
Manager: Ah! You're one of those are you? Look, just tell me what
you came in for in the first place - then leave.
Girl: I've remembered. My agency contract is up this week and
they require a renewal confirmation form. I have it here,
will you sign it for me?
Manager: Let me think about it for a moment.......No! You're gone on
Friday - goodbye Ms Bunglehoff.
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perfect...I thought she was one of the many TV women commentators that now flood the airways in this country...high screeching voices...could you end their contract for me.
ReplyDeleteexcellent moment for time for me.
Well thanks gsb, we've got the same irritating women screechers over here. Either that, or they talk as though they are trying to instruct backward two-year-olds.
DeleteYou caught part of the 'climate' of today's world perfectly...I'm quite sure we've all met someone like that! Very nice...and I personally like skits/plays very much in blogs. Hello from Turku by the way.
ReplyDeleteThanks Managua Gunn, and what the heck are you doing in Turku?
DeleteI enjoyed the ending... nice to see some poetic justice!
ReplyDeleteThanks Abigail. Isn't it just!
DeleteHere in Texas, calling a woman Miss is often just good manners, although the correct form is Miss FirstName, not Miss LastName. :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Bunnygirl! There are too many hyper-sensitive, PC types around, and Miss (Ms) Bunglehoff was one of them. As Gollum would say: 'I hates it....'
DeleteCuriously I did meet such a person at work and unfazed I ignored such false and threatening pretentiousness and we got on OK. Such posturing is annoying but in your example both were asking for trouble.
ReplyDeleteCan't understand that Rob. In my example I was careful to make the manager as innocent as possible. Is that a bit of PC creeping in?
DeleteI completely understand this infuriation..that's why i avoid names..or use many..
ReplyDeleteHello Jae. It's a shame we can't speak innocently, and plainly anymore without running into trouble.
DeleteGood. There is a fool born hour and some of them grow up to be big fools. LOL
ReplyDeleteThank you Annie, glad you agree.
Deletei thought i was there, eavesdropping. haha. made me laugh tonight. so true. so true.
ReplyDeleteThank you totomai, another supporter, I really thought I would 'get some stick' over this posting. It seems sense and commonsense is wider-spread than I thought.
DeleteI liked this, especially the ending. I am so sick of all the PC nonsense. My country is filled to the brim with this crap.
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