WWoW Act 1 Scene 4 Flashcards
Turns out, being a nurse is bad for your health! It’s just not right! drinks
Gosh, I’m really late. Can y’all help me?
Jef, honey, if it’s a youthful look you’re going for, you may have dialed the time machine back a bit too far.
No, I’m Shirley Temple! When I went to get my nails done, I sat next to a woman who invited me to a costume party she’s hosting tonight. The theme is Hooray for Hollywood. It’s been way too long since I’ve gone to a big party, so I’m a little nervous! “But oh my goodness, who could resist a cutie like me?”
And Jef, you know what a comfort it was to Hester, knowing you were here at the end.
Well darling, you do the best you can with what you’ve got. I’m just tickled I was able to do my part.
Sorry. Something just went down the wrong way.
But you’re the one who cared for her all these months. I think that’s why it hit you so hard.
Although when I leaned down to kiss her the last time and she whispered “goodbye”, it almost did me in.
I felt the same way when I was sitting on the edge of her bed and Hester whispered, “Just let go.”
That was because you were gripping her oxygen tube and she was desperate for air.
I said I was sorry.
Well, what I know is that I could use something a little stronger than champagne right now.
I’m sorry Willa and I have gotten on each other’s nerves this week. I’ve done my best, but we’ve never really gotten along since the incident. I know she doesn’t like me, and I know she doesn’t like this costume, and I know she’d REALLY hate the kind of party I’m going to. It’s a singles party.
Oh. Well, if you’re sure about this.
I am. I have worn widow’s weeds for a proper year and I am done. I’m ready to meet Superman or Batman or Iron Man, or any man, really, I’m not picky!
Good thing, Dimples, because it’s going to take a special kind of guy who’s hot to run his fingers through sausage curls.
Well I wanted to be Princess Leia or Cleopatra, but all the good costumes were gone. This is all they had left. I just want to go to a party, darn it! I hope you don’t think I’m terrible.
Of course not, Jef. McRae’s been gone a year now.
I’ve been sitting alone in a dark house this past year with nothing to do and no one to do it with. I cannot take it for another moment! I’m too young to be a widow, and I’m too lonely to remain one!
Vodka. Well, hot and spicy pepper vodka with jalapeño and habanero.
Look, it’s not that I don’t still love McRae or I’m trying to forget him or anything, but I need something good to happen to me now.
I get it.
You do?
Now I know what Hell tastes like.
Fanny, want to go to the party with me? It’s not too late.
Once you’ve had the best, why bother with the rest?
I don’t suppose you’d want to go, would you, Willa?
After the mistake I made by marrying Freddy, all I wanted was my freedom. And it still feels good.
Well, when I was dating him, Freddy Logan was a very sweet boy. Something obviously changed him. Oops, I’ve got to grab my purse and go!
… and give those aging beachcombers a chance? Like maybe tomorrow?
Well… that’s another thing. I can’t actually… go home.
Why not? Why not?
Well, I’ve told you about the dating, I guess I can tell you the rest. Okay… uh… what I mean–
Brace yourself. Drama alert.
It’s really too awful to believe but… a couple of weeks ago, I lost the house.
Here we go. So, forgot to pay the mortgage? Gambling debts?
No, nothing like that. It… went away.
Uh… where did it go?
When I say I lost the house, I mean I lost the house… down a sinkhole.
Okay, I did not see that one coming.
It was around one in the morning. I woke up to this horrible cracking and moaning and I thought it was a tornado. But I looked out the window and it was a starry sky, and then the floor started moving. Somehow, I grabbed my purse and barely made it out when the living room started sliding away. I ran to the front yard and thought I was dreaming as I watched our entire house get sucked down a hole! And then the garage went. With the car! And then I don’t know how, but I raced it to the RV and floored it out of the driveway before that went down the hole.
Oh, you poor thing!
How was I supposed to know there were sinkholes in Florida?
Umm… watch the news, pay attention in school, stop looking at yourself in the mirror, read a paper once in a –
Okay, I get it! But that’s not the worst part.
Of course it isn’t.
You know how I held onto McRae’s ashes until I could figure out where I wanted him to spend eternity? Let’s just say that decision has been made for me.
Well… McRae always did consider that his forever home.
I’m just so embarrassed it took something this awful to get me off my butt and start living again. McRae would be so put out with me. I should’ve gotten my life together long before now, but I just haven’t. And that’s why I’m here, in that whale of an RV, and I have nothing left really, and nowhere to go.
Stay here as long as you want.
Oh, thank you, thank you! You are so good to me and have always been so precious and… that is why I am going to get a man. I don’t care if I have to lie to him, hogtie him or put him in a chokehold, I will get a man. And preferably a man… with a house!
