Time Machine

INT. GARAGE.

BOB HAS BUILT A TIME MACHINE AND IS REVEALING IT TO HIS PARENTS


BOB:
Well, here she is! 8 years of hard graft.


FATHER:
Took me longer than that to put me old motorbike back together.


MOTHER:
Are you sure it’s safe?


FATHER:
Should be. I went to the Isle of Man and back on it over the summer.


MOTHER:
No, Bob’s time machine, you fool.


BOB:
It’s perfectly safe, Mother, I swear. I have carried out a 5 thousand document risk assessment on it. I would not risk my life in there if I had even the slightest of doubt. In fact, it has been finished for a while now. I have called you both down here to witness its maiden voyage!


MOTHER:
(PETRIFIED) Oh no! I don’t know if I can bare to be here for this.


FATHER:
Calm down, darlin’. The boy knows what he’s doing. (TO BOB) Hey son, wanna borrow me leathers, just in case?


BOB:
No thank you, Father. That won’t be necessary.


MOTHER STARTS CRYING AND FATHER PUTS HIS ARM AROUND HER


FATHER:
It’s ok dear, he knows what he’s doing. Think of all those University fees. (TO BOB) So, where are you off to son?


BOB:
I’m going back to when the story of man began to spend a few days exploring.


BOB STEPS INTO THE TIME MACHINE


BOB:
I have set the machine to return me to the present day at 5 pm. So, Mother, make yourself a cup of tea and I’ll see you back here in just (LOOKS AT WATCH) oh, about half an hour from now.


MOTHER:
Noooo!


FATHER:
(HOLDING MOTHER BACK) Trust him, Dear.


THE TIME MACHINE FLICKERS THEN VANISHES


CUT TO:
HALF AN HOUR LATER.

MOTHER IS IN GARAGE CLINGING NERVOUSLY TO FATHER

THE TIME MACHINE REAPPEARS

THE DOOR OPENS

OUT STEPS, NOT BOB, BUT A CAVEMAN!


CAVEMAN:
Well, he left the keys in it!



END