A short dialog between two poor Irish boys. |
1: I had a potato for dinner last night. 2: Excuse me? 1: A potato. I had one for dinner. 2: Just one? 1: Yeah the others went bad. 2: What kind of potato are we talkin’ about here? Boiled, mashed, fried? 1: (shaking head) No none of that? 2: Well what then? 1: Raw. 2: What’s raw? 1: The potato, it was raw. 2: Before you cooked it? 1: No, when I ate it. 2: You ate a raw potato? 1:Yep. 2: Why would you do that? 1:The microwave is broken. 2: What about the stove. 1:That’s broken too. The electricity was turned off. None of it works. 2:You could have taken it to Tucker’s. 1: He wasn’t home. He worked the late shift at the pub last night. 2: Why didn’t you take it to the pub? Devrett would have heated it up for you. 1: That’s the height of desperation, walking around trying to find someone to heat up your potato for you in the middle of the night. Besides I was hungry! 2: So you ate it raw? 1: Yes, and it really wasn’t that bad. 2: Well what did it taste like? 1: Um… I don’t know… a raw potato…? 2: Could you be a little more specific? 1: It tasted like a vegetable… what does it matter any way? 2: I was just curious… Kind of funny, huh? Our grandparents come over here to escape the potato famine and here we are how many years later living off of raw potatoes… 1: That is kind of funny. 2: What are you going to have tonight? 1: What do you mean? 2: For dinner. 1: Oh. I don’t know, hopefully something with meat in it. I haven’t had meat in a while. 2: We could clean some tables for Devrett, he’d probably give us a hamburger or something. 1: No, we can’t do that. Molly’s working there and she’s got another one on the way. He’s giving all the extra food to her. She needs it. 2: Maybe we could eat one of my brothers. 1: Don’t joke about that or I might start taking you seriously. 2: God, let’s start with Brandon, he’s got a mouth on him. 1: Stop it, I’m pretty sure that we’d go to hell if we ate one of those little brats, and heaven is the only thing that I have to look forward to right now. 2: That’s… depressing… 1: So is living in this place. No food, no water, no electricity, no money. 2: Just raw potatoes. 1: Yep. 2: Yep. |