Save the Bees

Chapter 3

Dad: Hey, Honex!

Barry: Oh! Dad, you surprised me.

Dad(laughing): Have you 2 decided what you're interested in, son and Y/N?

Y/N: Well, there's a lot of choices.

Dad: But you 2 only get one. (laughs again)

Barry: Dad, do you ever get bored doing the same job every day?

Dad: Son and Y/N, let me tell you 2 something about stirring. You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around. You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing.

Y/N: You know, Martin, the more we think about it, maybe the honey field just isn't right for us.

Dad: And you 2 were thinking of what, making balloon animals? That's a bad job for a guy and gal with a stinger.

Barry: Well, no...

Dad: Janet, your son's and Y/N's not sure they want to go into honey!

Mom: Oh, Barry and Y/N, you 2 are so funny sometimes.

Y/N: We're not trying to be funny.

Dad: You 2 are not funny! You 2 are going into honey. Our son and Y/N, the stirrers!

Mom: You 2 are gonna be 2 stirrers?

Barry: No one's listening to us!

Dad: Wait till you 2 see the sticks I have for you 2.

Y/N: We could say anything we want right now. (in sing-song) We're gonna get an ant tattoo!

Mom: Oh, let's open some fresh honey and celebrate!

Barry: Maybe we'll pierce our thorax. (Mom and dad start walking away. Dad raises his glass and says, "To honey!")

Y/N: Shave our antennas.

Mom: So funny.

Barry: Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and start calling everybody "dawg"!

Dad: I'm so proud. (Barry and Adam and Y/N arrive the next morning at the job selection booth.)

Adam: I can't believe we're starting work today!

Y/N: Today's the day

Adam: Come on! All the good jobs will be gone.

Barry: (unenthused) Yeah, right. (Dean Buzzwell at his second job, located at the desk in front of the Honex Job Placement Board)

Buzzwell: Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal...

Sandy Shrimpkin: Is it still available?

Buzzwell: Hang on. Two left! And ... one of them's yours! Congratulations! son, Step to the side, please.

Sandy: Yeah!

Adam: What'd you get?

Sandy: Picking the crud out.

Adam: Woah.

Sandy: That is stellar!

Adam: Wow!

Buzzwell: Couple of newbies?

Adam: Yes, sir! Our first day! And we are ready!

Buzzwell: Well, step up and make your choice.

Adam: (to Barry and Y/N) Do you 2 want to go first?

Y/N: Uh, no, you go.

Adam: Oh, my. What's available?

Buzzwell: Restroom attendant's always open, and not for the reason you think.