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6:11p

''I see old people'' Curry Dinner- a silly scene set in a London tandouri restaurant. It's about remembering and forgetting and what happens when people get really old and really drunk.

ALL CHARACTERS AND ATTEMPTS AT COMMUNICATION ARE INDEED NOT PURELY FICTIONAL.

Enter the main characters. One, Corrinne, is Stephanie's godmother- an aged control freak who works to keep her legs very lean and her hair very blonde; Peter, the bumbling old man Corrinne married last year; and Jerry, a charismatic old journalist who has writen a biography of Andrew Lloyd Webber and a book on the strange loves of Adolf Hitler, among other things. Corrinne suffers from a declining sex life and a sagging body, Peter suffers from Corrinne's bullshit, and Jerry suffers from sinility. Stephanie, it seems, suffers from being the only sane and sober character in this scene.

Corrinne: oh Stephanie, shall we splash out and share a bottle of wine?

Stephanie: (thoughtfully) ''Hmmm...''

Peter: Wine? You're having a glass of wine you say?

Corrinne: Peter don't be deaf- I said Stephanie and I might order a BOTTLE of wine.

Jerry: Ah, I remember before the war, when we would go drinking and...

Peter: Well I'm going to have another beer. (to Jerry) Fancy sharing a beer with me old chap?

Jerry: Yes ofcourse. I'm surprised Corrinne hasn't thought of having any more wine. Now Peter have you noticed that Stephanie's looking a little Asian these days?

Stephanie: (surprised/curious) ''Hmmm...''

Peter: Haha, well she's looking gorgeous isn't she. I say, maybe we should share Stephanie instead of a beer.

Corrinne: Peter, don't be stupid. Jerry you can have the whole of Stephanie and Peter can have the whole of ME...

----------long pause while Stephanie reflects on the fact that her godmother has just offered her to an 82 year old and decides Corrinne is definately not in need of any more wine--------------

Jerry: My goodness, there's something with Stephanie's eyes... she's looking... well, one would almost say she's looking a little Asian!

Corrinne: Yes, Jerry, you did mention...

Stephanie: (agreeing) ''Hmmm...''

Jerry: Why I was in Asia before the war...

Stephanie: (interested) ''Hmmm...''

Peter: Stephanie's just been to Asia, Jerry, did you know that?

Corrinne: Peter don't be slow, of course he knows. (girlishly to Stephanie- he can be so slow sometimes, my husband.)

Stephanie: (faking amusement) ''Hmmm...''

Jerry: Yes, well of course Stephanie has been to Asia, Peter, I wouldn't forget something like that.

So we leave them mid-conversation, these characters, as they finish off their curries and their drinks and slip perhaps not so quietly nor gracefully into old age.

It made me really sad talking to Jerry. He is still some kind of hero to me and probably the wisest person I've ever met. Knowing this, it seems so tragic that he can't remember what he said thirty seconds ago. As for Corrinne, she can't seem to decide wheather I am a child she should order about or a peer whom she should have boozed up girly chats with. Peter just bumbles about and takes her shit. And they all drink and drink and drink to help them forget that they're old and wrinkled and forget too much to begin with.

Definately a tragedy, even if a comical one it is.

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