"My boss thinks the cleaning lady takes the money, so I'm just gonna go with that for now. He came up to me and told me it's missing and said he figures it must be the cleaning lady and I just didn't say nothin'. So I'm gonna roll with that for now and see how long I can make it go."
"Honey, you got to do what you got to do."
"I can't ask my husband no more now he cleaned up. It's just twenty I need, nothin' crazy like what he'd burn through, but I still can't ask him."
"What's that like, him being clean?"
"He been with me eleven years and I been there through all of it with him, so he knows whasup. He knows he can't ask me to quit just 'cause he can't hang no more. I mean, I never done it on his level and I can go a few days between, but then I get to a certain point and it's like, yeah, I just gotta get up to the spot and get on that level."
"Yeah."
"It's just been so hard to keep up on everything. Rent, groceries, shit," she looks around, "a SEPTA pass."
"Yeah."
"But my husband's cool, he knows the game. If he could just give me the twenty, he probably would, but it wouldn't be like that for him and anyway he don't make shit just like I don't make shit."
"I got you."
"But damn, I been talking the whole time. How you? Whasup?"
"You know, same old."
She looks around again. "This our stop. Let's do this. And remember, it gets pretty real, so stay together. Get my back and I'll get yours. If we split up, remember we both gonna come down, one way or another. May as well do it our way."
So they're planning a heist with a bus as the getaway vehicle? Oh yeah, THAT'S a plan! :)
ReplyDeleteTheir rapport and the implied cadence of their dialogue made me smile. Very nice, Richard. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI get the impression that one is going to pose as a hooker & they'll roll the first guy who comes up. It sounds awfully real. Did you overhear this on a bus?
ReplyDeleteDoing what she needs to do to feed the habit?
ReplyDeleteThese two sound desperate, and dangerous.
I hope the bus arrives on time or they'll really be up the creek without a paddle ^_^
ReplyDeleteLove the dialogue in this.
Excellent construction (transcription?). I've heard conversations just like this.
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