EXT. DENNY'S RESTAURANT - EARLY MORNING
SUPER: 2 HOURS LATER
The time appears on the screen 1:37 A.M.
INT. DENNY'S RESATAURANT
JACK, MATHEW, and JIM sitting around a table eating.
JACK
So did you get his number?
MATHEW hits JACK in the arm.
MATHEW
FUCK YOU!
JACK
What? He was not your type?
MATHEW
He had tits, for God sake!
JIM
And a dick.
MATHEW
Ha, Ha, Ha. He was hot, I'm glad I just found out on the dance floor rather than his bedroom floor.
JACK
Now let's just say hypothetical there you are getting a blowjob and you are about to cum then out of the corner of your eye you see the extra tree branch, do you let him finish or are you like a tire running over an axe?
MATHEW
I would like to believe I'm droopy as a ninety year old women, but depending how close I'm from launching Columbia to orbit. I would say it is a coin toss.
JIM
A coin toss? I would go from launch to
abort in .00003 seconds.
JACK
Really, I would be so confused in
that moment that I would close my eyes
and dream of Jessica Alba and go where no Jack has gone before.
JIM
I would have to pass on the Jessie Alba
daydream, and kick him in the fucking teeth.
MATHEW
To get rid of the teeth friction? Teeth can just ruin a good blowjob.
JACK
Are you kidding me, I love a little nibble on my mushroom cap.
JIM
Get the fuck out of here.
JACK
I'm serious, if I can't feel it then what is the point. God gave women teeth and I give women my cock. So,let the teeth be felt.
An OLDER WAITRESS walked by and gave JACK a strange look. Jack raises his glass towards the passing waitress.
JACK
Here's to the ladies with dentures, the
fewer teeth the better.
MATHEW
Damn Jack.
JIM
I wonder if you will get your own pitch fork when you get to hell.
JACK
Yeah, hell is going to really suck, with all of the strippers and hookers. The parties in hell have to be better than the tea parties in heaven.
JIM
Only problem is that the strippers and
hookers will be men.
MATHEW
So, what if you are gay?
JIM
Something you want to share?
MATHEW shakes his head no, as he takes a sip of his drink.
JACK
Then heaven is hell.
JIM
That would suck. You love man love. You have taken Jesus as your savior and then you get into heaven and then you don't get anymore man love.
JACK
I figure there is no proof of anything beyond this world. So I might as well make heaven here on earth.
JIM
You say there is no proof, what about the Bible.
JACK
The Bible, written by man centuries after Jesus walked the earth. I don't buy it.
MATHEW
All those years of catholic school down the drain.
JIM
So there's no heaven or hell in Jack's world.
JACK
No, there is. But it's here. Not floating in a cloud or in some burning underworld. We see what we choose to see. There are people that live in trailers who believe their in heaven. While there are people who live in mansions who feel like they're in hell.
MATHEW
Big talk from a guy who wastes his day playing XBOX and living with his Grandpa.
JACK
I'm just trying to say that we beginthis life with nothing but our bare ass. Then we start accumulating crap. We need a bigger TV every year, a shinier car, a bigger house. Garages, attics and storage units are piled
high with worthless stuff that we weredying to buy. Then we die, most of the time alone, then our loved ones sell it donate it, or trash it.
MATHEW
When you die, I don't want any of your crap. But maybe you're right, her I'malmost 40, I have a nice home, nice stuff, but I'm miserable.
JIM
Leave her.
MATHEW
I can't just go, I have responsibilities.
JIM
Like what? Laundry?
MATHEW
Thanks. Thanks for that. I have a mortgage, car payments, credit card payments. Hell I haven't even paid off my furniture yet.
JACK
Mathew Martin folks. His life sponsored by Pottery Barn.
MATHEW
Bottom line. None of us are going to do a damn thing. Jim you will be at work tomorrow, Jack you will be on Grandpa's couch tomorrow and I'm going home to Dixie.
JIM
Why do you have to piss on a perfectly good daydream?
MATHEW
Because dreams don't come true.
YOU ARE READING
I QUIT
General FictionJim is living a normal life until tragedy changes his life forever. He will have to decide between starting over or continue living in this life of mediocrity.
