The Business Woman Flashcards by LILY TANG

OLD MAN: Yeah, those things’ll kill ya!

BUSINESSWOMAN: …running late again, so just tuck the kids in and kiss them good night for me. And please make their lunches for school tomorrow. I’l be leaving early tomorrow for a presentation to a client. Stephanie likes her sandwiches cut into triangles, but I’m sure you already know that, honey. Honey? Damn, no signal down here.

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looking around for signal

BUSINESSWOMAN: Excuse me, do you by any chance have a cell phone I could use for a few moments?

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LAWYER: I usually get reception in the subway. Hold on.

BUSINESSWOMAN: I’m not exactly sure when mine went dead, so I don’t know how much of the message my husband got, and… any luck?

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PROFESSOR: I usually keep mine in my coat pocket, but oddly, I don’t seem to be wearing my coat. Sorry.

BUSINESSWOMAN: I just want him to tell my kids I love them, and that I’m sorry I missed tucking them in again.

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NUN: Children are a heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. How many children do you have, dearie?

BUSINESSWOMAN: Two

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NUN: I’m sure he’ll tell them for you.

BUSINESSWOMAN: Did anyone happen to see a payphone anywhere in the station?

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HOMELESS GIRL: Payphone down here? Yeah, right.

BUSINESSWOMAN: What about upstairs?

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NUN: Dearie, don’t worry about it. It sounds like your husband is an expert at this kind of thing.

BUSINESSWOMAN: He is, he is. I just wanted the kids to hear me say good night on the machine before the bed.

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OLD MAN: That would be a long-distance call.

BUSINESSWOMAN: Maybe I’ll get home in time to see them. Ben had a little League game tonight. My husband sometimes takes them out for ice cream afterward. Maybe Stephanie won’t fall asleep in the car. Does anyone know when the next train comes?

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PROFESSOR: Mine too.

BUSINESSWOMAN: It’s all right. I’ll go upstairs and look for a payphone… oh!

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BUSINESSMAN: I was at an ATM when some guy pulled a knife on me. He told me to give him my money, but I took off. I cut through Central Park and came down here.

BUSINESSWOMAN: Central Park?

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BUSINESSMAN: Chicago? Now that’s not possible. This is New York.

BUSINESSWOMAN: But… but it’s Seattle. How…?

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NUN: The other sisters and I were vacationing in Rome. I’ve wanted to go there all my life. I was sitting in my room reading up on the cathedrals we were going to see tomorrow. I… I believe I dozed off.

BUSINESSWOMAN: This doesn’t make sense. I was walking to the bus stop, talking on my cell phone. Maybe I wasn’t paying close enough attention to where I was going, but I am positive I never entered a subway station.

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OLD MAN: Where are we? We’re in a subway station that happens to connect to several different places, including a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. Don’t you think that’s odd?

BUSINESSWOMAN: This is ridiculous. It must be a dream or something.

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NUN: They do say the Lord works in mysterious ways.

BUSINESSWOMAN: This is crazy. Whatever this place is, I have to get home to my family and away from you people. I’m going to find a phone– even if I have to go back up to the street–and call my husband.

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LAWYER: I don’t believe her. Maybe this is all a bad dream. I knew I shouldn’t have stayed at the office so late. I’m getting out of here and calling a cab.

BUSINESSWOMAN: There’s no way out.

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LAWYER: What?

BUSINESSWOMAN: No stairs up to street level. Just stairways down to the platforms.

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PROFESSOR: If we’re dead, does it matter? Our spirits or whatever we are, were brought to this place. I would assume we materialized upstairs or something of that effect.

BUSINESSWOMAN: But my kids… how will they…?

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NUN: There, there, dearie. Their father loves them and will get them through this.

BUSINESSWOMAN: That’s not the point. If we’re dead, then I’m never going to see them again. As it is, I haven’t seen them much since my husband got laid off and I went back to work. I’ve missed the past four years of their lives, and now I’m going to miss the rest.

NUN: I’m sure they know you love them.

BUSINESSWOMAN: But I haven’t been there for them. What kind of parent have I been?

LAWYER: Your family needed money to get by, and you took care of that, I assume. What you did was honorable.

BUSINESSWOMAN: You don’t get it, do you? You must not have kids.

PROFESSOR: Why must everyone be a hostile witness to you?

BUSINESSWOMAN: How old do you think she is?

PROFESSOR: Early twenties, I’d say.

BUSINESSWOMAN: Her poor parents. No one should see their children die before them.

HS GIRL: But if I’m home late, my father will kill me. Then he’ll kill you.

BUSINESSWOMAN: No. It’s not fair.

HS GIRL: Once you take me home, you can go back there. And I'm sorry that my parents have a stricter curfew than yours do. At least it's not raining in here.

BUSINESSWOMAN: They don't deserve to be here this young.

BUSINESSMAN: Should we tell them where here is?

BUSINESSWOMAN: They may be better off not knowing.

HS BOY: What do you mean you don't know where it's going?

BUSINESSWOMAN: It's a little complicated.

HS BOY: Up or down? What does that mean?

BUSINESSWOMAN: Nothing. Ignore what he's saying.

HS GIRL: I don't think you're getting me home tonight.

BUSINESSWOMAN: Sweetie, don't say that.

HS GIRL: We do not drink!

BUSINESSWOMAN: Leave the kids alone! This can't be easy on them.

NUN: You did correct your sin. Perhaps in God's eyes, you will be forgiven

BUSINESSWOMAN: IS that enough to change the direction of the train? I'll admit I wasn't always there for my kids, but I love them. Why should I be doomed for Hell?

OLD MAN: I've lived my life. It's behind me, and there's nothing I can do to change it. You young folk don't have that life experience yet. Betcha that's why she won't get on.

BUSINESSWOMAN: She's scared. That's it.

PROFESSOR: Well, you see...

BUSINESSWOMAN: You had an affair, didn't you?

PROFESSOR: With one of my students. She was a graduate student-- a consenting adult.

BUSINESSWOMAN: That doesn't make it right.

OLDMAN: She's right. The last folks wouldn't stop yapping like you folks. I wanted nothin' to do with them, so I took a little nap. None of them had the decency to wake me up when the train finally did come. Good, bad, who cares? Just get on the train and move on, I say.

BUSINESSWOMAN: Have you noticed that we've all done something we're not proud of, but otherwise we seem to be relatively decent people?

HS BOY: So you're saying if this train goes to Hell, the one on the other side goes to Heaven?

BUSINESSWOMAN: Or vice versa. There was another flight of stairs up there. It probably goes to the other side.

HS BOY: You're not going anywhere with my girl.

BUSINESSWOMAN: I know the way. I'll go. All right?

HS GIRL: Sorry about that. He's a bit overprotective.

BUSINESSWOMAN: It's alright.

HS GIRL: MY boyfriend means well, he really does. He wants to hold on so tightly because I'm leaving for college in a few months and he isn't. I'm hoping I'll go and we'll painlessly drift apart in time, but then I feel awful because I think I'm leading him on. I want to be on my own, find my own life next fall, but I don't have the heart to tell him that it may be without him. I'm afraid he'll be devastated, and the last thing I want is to hurt him. Does this make me a bad person?

BUSINESSWOMAN: No worse than the rest of us. You have to be true to yourself, even if that means moving on when others don't. My I ask why you're confiding in me?

HS BOY: Wait!

BUSINESSWOMAN: Let her go. Let her move on.

HS BOY: But I promised her I'd take care of her. I couldn't even get that right.

BUSINESSWOMAN: Maybe we should all move on, to wherever the train takes us. I think that's what we're supposed to do.

BUSINESSMAN: What did you learn about the otherside?

BUSINESSWOMAN: Different people, but the same issues we have. But I guess you've already figured that out.

OLDMAN: Thanks.

BUSINESSWOMAN: Are you two getting on?

NUN: Just say you have faith.

BUSINESSWOMAN: It's unfortunate that they won't join us.

OLDMAN: Well, I'll be...

BUSINESSWOMAN: So then do both trains go to...?