script Flashcards
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Ow! Darnit
Oh, no! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!, Oh… I didn’t see you!, Are you okay?!?
Oh… I didn’t see you!, Are you okay?!?
(Unfazed.) Yeah.
No, you’re not!! I smashed you with the ironing board!, I wasn’t even looking!, Are you hurt?
Are you hurt?
(Calmly resituating himself on the bench.) No
Oh, you must be!! I just smashed you!, Where did I get you?
In the head.
In the head!?!, Oh, come here!, Are you okay?
Is there any blood?
No.
Any discoloration?
No.
Then I’m okay.
Well, I’m gonna go get you some ice.
No. I can’t feel things like that.
Like what?
Like when I get smashed in the head with an ironing board. I don’t get hurt
What?
I can’t feel pain.
Oh Jeezum Crow, what the heck have I done to you (continue)
Nothin’
You’re talkin’ loopy!, Listen to you, goin’ on about not being able to feel pain!, That’s delusional!, I’ve knocked the sense right outta ya!
No , I’m okay.
Shh! Listen: I was gonna be a nurse, so I know: You’re hurt. You just took a good shot right to the head, and that’s serious.
No, it’s not serious. I don’t think an iron board could really hurt your head cause’ see, ironing boards aren’t on my list of things that can hurt you>
What is…?
plus, there’s no blood or discoloration from where I got hit // so…
Well, you can be hurt and not be // bleeding or bruised.
See, I bet if I took this ironing board and hit you with it, that it wouldn’t hurt you. See?, // That didn’t hurt.
OW!!
OW!!
Oh!
Ow! What the heck was that?! // Why did you do that?
I’m sorry! // Did that hurt?
God!
Oh, it did, didn’t it?
Ow!
Oh I didn’t think it would ‘cause, see ironing boards are not on my list of things that could hurt you but gosh maybe they should be on my list, becau // se
What are you talking about?
I have a list of things that can hurt you- My brother Rob is helping me make it- and ironing boards aren’t on it.
Well, that iron board hurt me.
Well, that ironing board hurt me.
Yeah,
So you should add it to your list.
Yeah… Should I be afraid of ironing boards?
Well, If someone swings it at your head and wallops you with it, yes.
Well they shouldn’t be, really.
No?
No, you shouldn’t be afraid of ironing boards.
No, you shouldn’t be afraid of ironing boards.
No?
No
But they can hurt you.
Yeah
So I should be afraid of them.
No.
So I shouldn’t be afraid of them?
Right.
But they can hurt me.
Well, if they’re used in the way you used it, yeah.
Oh-Oh-Oh! So they’re kind of like the opposite of God!
What?
Well, ironing boards can hurt me, but I shouldn’t be afraid of them, but God, my brother Rob says, God won’t hurt me but I should fear him.
I guess.
Boy, this is getting very complicated.
What is?
The business of learning what hurts, what doesn’t hurt, what to be afraid of, what not to be afraid of.
Are you sure you’re okay?, // You’re just goin’ on and on about crazy stuff–
Oh, yeah, see, I have congenital analgesia, he thinks. Some // people–
What?
What?
Congenital analgesia.
Who thinks?