Annie Baker is a playwright from Amherst, Massachusetts. Her other plays include Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Circle Mirror Transformation (just finished a twice-extended run at Playwrights Horizons), and The Aliens (upcoming at New York City’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, spring 2010).
Annie tells us: “Nocturama was a lot of fun to write. It’s also the play that no one will produce. I wrote it during a period of crippling self-hatred and depression, and I was interested in how, even if you’re a well-intentioned depressed person, you can still really screw up the lives of everyone around you just through the things that being depressed can make you say. I was also interested in what we mean when we say ‘depressed.’ I was also interested in the way liberal-seeming white people talk about black people when they’re not around. I was also interested in historical house tours and melancholic female 19th-century poets (Emily Dickinson in particular), and at the peak of my insane depression I was attending three historical house tours a week and getting obsessed with the (always female) historical house tour guides and their fanatical interest in the minutiae of dead people’s lives.”
Brooklynite SKAGGS BERNSTEIN (26, self-loathing, recently dumped by his girlfriend, Meghan) has returned home to Vermont to live with his mother, JUDY, 58, and her boyfriend, GARY, 60. Skaggs spends his days talking to Judy about his depression and flirting with a local historical house tour guide. He also likes to torment Gary, who is overweight and addicted to video games. Gary has just raided Judy’s secret stash of expensive chocolate. This scene takes place late in the play.
SCENE FOUR: THE LIVING ROOM
Lights up on Skaggs sitting on the couch, eating saltines and drinking directly from a huge bottle of ginger ale. Judy is sitting next to him with a cup of tea.SKAGGSDo you ever think about what people will say about you at your funeral?
Judy nods.SKAGGSYou like fantasize about it?JUDYSure.SKAGGSGood. That makes me feel like less of an asshole.
Gary enters the room, sits down in an armchair, and turns on his laptop.SKAGGSDo you want to be cremated or buried?JUDYUm… cremated.SKAGGSOK. See, I’m glad I asked. ’Cause if you like got run over by a car today Gary and I would have had no idea like… what your wishes are.
(calling out)
Cremated, Gary! Gary nods, not taking his eyes off the computer.SKAGGSBuried for me.JUDYOK… I don’t want to think about that.SKAGGSFine. But just…
(he whispers)
…buried. Judy nods.SKAGGSHey, Gary. Can I check email for a second?GARYI just started playing Nocturama.SKAGGSPlease? My laptop is being really weird.GARYHold on. I have to pause it.
(pause)
OK. Gary stands up and steps aside. Skaggs dashes over and starts typing. After a second, he stops and looks up at Gary.SKAGGSThanks. Gary shrugs. Skaggs stares at the computer.JUDYAnything good?SKAGGSJust something from Elijah.
(a long silence while he reads the email)
Huh.
(after a while, to Gary)
OK. Thanks. Skaggs stands there, thinking. Gary sits down and goes back to playing his game.JUDYWhat did he say?SKAGGSWeird.JUDYWhat?SKAGGSHe’s moving to LA.JUDYI thought he was working for that photographer downtown.SKAGGSYeah. No. I mean, he was. But he, uh… his older brother is like a reality-TV producer? Apparently he’s gonna move there and be a PA for this new show. He’s like driving there in his car next week.JUDYEch. Reality TV.SKAGGSSome of it isn’t that bad, Mom.JUDYIt’s awful.SKAGGSYou don’t even watch it. You just think it’s bad ’cause you read articles about it.
(after a pause)
Anyway. He said he could get me a PA gig if I want it. Gary and Judy both look up.JUDYYou’re not gonna say yes, are you?SKAGGSNo. I’m not… I can’t have a job right now. I mean, I’m totally dysfunctional.
(pause)
That would be insane, right?
(They don’t respond. Skaggs scratches his head.)
That’s great that he’s going, though. LA is cool.JUDYI don’t know. It’s not so cool if the job is meaningless and you’re not helping anyone or creating anything worthwhile.SKAGGS…Yeah. A pause. Skaggs peers over Gary’s shoulder.SKAGGSSo that’s Nocturama?GARYUh-huh.SKAGGSWhat… like… what is it?GARYWhat do you mean?SKAGGSLike what… what’s the game?GARYIt’s, uh… well, you’re kind of in this underground world. Gary is still focused on the game. He doesn’t take his eyes off the screen.SKAGGSOK.GARYAnd, uh… you can’t really see much, because you’re moving through these caves?SKAGGS(peering over his shoulder)
Are you in a cave now?GARYYeah. And, uh… you can… I mean, it’s complicated. You… you can buy different sources of light from the priestesses, and, well, there’s this underground sort of church? It’s hard to explain. But, uh… that red thing I’m holding…SKAGGSYou’re the muscle-y guy?GARYYeah. That’s a divinity ball. I earned that on the first level. You’re basically… Hold on.
(a fit of tapping on the keyboard)
I had to kill that shaman.JUDY(from the couch)
You killed a shaman?GARYHe was evil.
(Judy sighs and shakes her head.)
Anyway, you’re descending, you’re descending into the, uh, heart of this underground world, and the lower you go the darker it gets, so the more protection and, uh, light you need? And there are these… there are these killer rats and, uh, cave beasts? But if I’m… I’m pretty well stocked so I can just…SKAGGSWhoa. You just killed that rat.GARYWell, I eliminated him.SKAGGSWhat’s the difference?GARYHe might come back later. Gary keeps playing the game while Skaggs watches, rapt.SKAGGSThose graphics are insane, man.GARYYeah. It’s pretty good. A long silence while Judy watches Skaggs watch Gary play Nocturama.SKAGGSWhat’s like the goal?GARYOh. Well. You don’t really know until you get to the… but I’ve played it before, so I know. You… you enter the core, you go in—SKAGGSThe core of what?JUDYCore of the world?GARYWell. Kind of. You go in, and there’s this, uh, sorceress, she’s the one who removed all the light… that’s why you’ve had to buy it on the black market the whole time…SKAGGS…OK…GARY…and, anyway, you, you go against her, you have this big fight, and then if you kill her—SKAGGSWait. You’ve actually killed her?
Gary nods, still playing.GARYYeah. If you kill her… she sort of melts away and she turns into this little boy. Lying on the ground. And you—JUDYYou kill a little boy?GARYWell, you don’t know you’ve killed a little boy until after you’ve killed him. But then… you pick up his dead body—SKAGGSHow do you know to do that?GARYThe game just does it for you. It’s a graphic. You take him in your arms, and you absorb his curse so he can live again.SKAGGSThat’s the end of the game?GARYUh-huh.SKAGGSWhoa.
Judy gets up and goes into her bedroom. She opens her sock drawer and starts looking through it.SKAGGSWhat are you doing now?GARYI’m negotiating with a spearwoman.
(after a pause, quietly)
You should take that job.SKAGGSWhat?GARYDon’t tell your mom I said that. Judy reenters.JUDYWhere’s my chocolate? Skaggs and Gary both look up.JUDYMy chocolate is gone. (to Gary) Did you find it? Gary doesn’t say anything.JUDYGARY. Gary doesn’t respond. He keeps staring at the computer.JUDYOh my God. That is… I’ve… you can’t… I can’t believe this! You’ve never… I hid that so you wouldn’t be tempted to—SKAGGSChill out, man. I ate it.JUDYNo, you didn’t.SKAGGSI did. Yesterday. I ate the whole thing. I needed like a sugar high or whatever.JUDY(after a pause)
It’s really expensive chocolate, Skaggs.SKAGGSI’ll buy you a new one.JUDYIt’s five dollars a bar.SKAGGSWhatever. You said I could have some.JUDYI didn’t mean the whole thing.
(after a pause, to Gary)
Sorry.GARYIt’s OK. Judy walks back over to the couch and sits back down, dejected. Skaggs’s cell phone, which has been sitting on the ground, emits a small beep.JUDYYour phone just beeped.SKAGGSYeah.JUDYDoes that mean you have a message?SKAGGSYeah. Meghan called.JUDYAre you gonna listen to it?SKAGGSEventually.JUDYYou’re kidding me. You’ve been pining away for a month and you don’t want to—SKAGGSIt’s… the prospect of actually like hearing her voice in my ear after all this time is like… and she has this condescending thing she does? When she like knows she’s fucked up or in power or something? She sounds all kind of drippy and apologetic and like… I don’t know if I want to listen to her be like, Heey, I got your email, or whatever.JUDYI thought you missed her.SKAGGSI do. I do. But I miss… I like miss the time we went to visit her dad in Point Reyes. I mean, that was like two years ago. But I keep thinking about it. We were just really happy and relaxed and… I don’t know. I mean, it kills me, ’cause like that version of us is like totally dead.GARY(not looking up from the computer)
So you miss yourself.SKAGGSYeah. I mean, her too.JUDYThis is… this is perfect for EMDR. I’m telling you.SKAGGSAggh.JUDYBecause… it’s… you keep focusing on this memory. It’s obsessive thinking. What you need to do is find a way to process the memory and acknowledge it without causing yourself pain. Skaggs shakes his head.JUDYI’m gonna do it.
Judy gets up and runs out of the room. Gary keeps playing Nocturama.SKAGGSHey, Gary.GARYUh-huh.SKAGGSI wanted to, uh…
Judy comes back in with her little EMDR contraption.JUDYOK. We’re gonna do it.
(she dims the lights)
Do you want to… hmm. You need to be relaxed. Why don’t we…
(she throws a bunch of pillows onto the floor)
You can just kind of prop yourself up on these.SKAGGSJesus. You’re really excited about this. He sits on the ground in front of the couch. Judy puts a pillow beneath his head and surrounds him with other pillows.JUDYAre you comfortable?SKAGGSI don’t know. Yeah. Judy turns on the green light on the EMDR contraption. Gary pauses Nocturama and watches.JUDYOK. I’m gonna… just follow this with your eyes. Back and forth.
(Skaggs follows it with his eyes)
Yup. Now. Before we… before we go into the memory, I want you to ask yourself a question. Ask yourself: “What is the best way I could feel, to be at my best in this situation?”SKAGGSWait, what?JUDYWhen you’re… the next time you experience this memory, how would you like to react? Don’t stop following the light.SKAGGSUh… I guess I’d like to not feel depressed?JUDYCan you state that positively?SKAGGSUh… I guess I’d like to feel not… sorry. Um. I’d like to feel calm?JUDYGood.SKAGGSAnd… uh… hopeful?JUDYGood.SKAGGSI thought I wasn’t supposed to feel hopeful. Judy stops moving the light.JUDYWhy?SKAGGSYou said to Abandon Hope.JUDYThat’s… that’s about living in the present. It’s OK to feel hopeful, um, in a memory.
(Gary shakes his head. Judy starts moving the light again.)
OK. Now… take your time… but just… just start going through the memory. Start narrating it.SKAGGSThe whole thing?JUDYJust… live it again. But don’t close your eyes.SKAGGSOK. Um… we’d been dating for like ten months. We were staying in LA… and, uh, we decided to drive all the way up Highway 1 to her father’s house in Point Reyes.JUDYJust be back in it. Try to be back in it.SKAGGSOK. Uh. We’re driving. We’re in her aunt’s Jetta. We leave LA. We take 10 West to Santa Monica and then we put on, OK, so as we’re turning onto 1 we put on Joni Mitchell and we play “California” like right as the ocean comes into view and we start laughing at ourselves at, like, how cheesy we’re being but it’s actually like I actually feel kind of incredible and like the ocean is on my left and Meghan is driving and her window won’t roll up so her hair is like in her mouth and I keep putting my hand on her leg.JUDYYou’re doing really good.SKAGGSOK… so we drive up, up, up, and like through Malibu and the hills are all brown and we almost turn off in Topanga Canyon but, uh, then we don’t… and there are all these little people down by the ocean and she keeps being like, “Should we stop here?” And I’m like, “We’re gonna be driving past beach for the next nine hours, wait until we get to Big Sur.” A pause.JUDYKeep going.SKAGGSI’m just remembering how fucking bossy I was.JUDYStay in it.SKAGGS…So we drive and we drive and, uh, we stop in Santa Barbara ’cause her cousin is a bellhop at the Four Seasons and he… he was actually a pretty cool guy, and he like worked all these extra hours to get us a free room, which is crazy, ’cause the Four Seasons is like $2,000 a night… so we drive into the parking lot and this like guy in a suit takes our car and Meghan’s cousin leads us to this villa building or something covered in red flowers and we have this huge room and we just go fucking nuts and run around in little circles on the carpet. We’ve like never been anywhere this nice in our lives. We both came from these like weird single mothers who live in cold places in New England and never take vacations.
No offense.JUDYI’m not here.SKAGGSSo we’re in this gigantic like amazing hotel room and there are all these little shampoo bottles in the bathroom and we jump up and down on the bed and then we have sex and she starts like crying during it but in this really nice way and I remember she—JUDYNo “I remember.” Stay in the present.SKAGGS…She like bites my shoulder while we’re having sex and it leaves this little mark and I look in the mirror afterward in the bathroom and see this like pink circle on my shoulder and I smiled, sorry, I smile, and I look at my reflection smiling, I’m smiling like a dumb shit, so happy, and I’m like: “Who is this guy?” Like I don’t even recognize myself. And for a second this fear goes through my body. This weird icicle of fear. I’m like: why am I here. What am I doing. I should be back in Brooklyn practicing and like maybe having a beer with Elijah but instead I’m at the Four Seasons with this person who like I look into her eyes, Jesus Christ, it’s so cheesy—JUDYIt’s not cheesy.SKAGGS—and it’s like all the moments in my life have led up to this one. Blah blah blah.
(pause)
Anyway. We’re like these happy assholes and the next day we keep driving, we drive up to Big Sur, we stop and look at these fucking seals or sea lions or something, I forget, and at some point we stop in, uh, San Luis Obispo and after that Meghan starts calling me Obispo… which now that I think about it is such an infantile, stupid thing to call someone but at the time I thought it was incredibly charming or something and then we switch places and uh… He pauses.JUDYWhat?SKAGGSI’m censoring a certain part of the story.JUDYDon’t.SKAGGSYeah. I actually should.JUDYI’m not judging you.SKAGGSOK… uh… I start driving and then like somewhere just before we’re coming into San Francisco she gives me a blow job and it, like, feels so fucking good and I keep saying: “The top of my head is coming off.” I can’t stop saying that—“The top of my head is coming off”—and I’m driving into—JUDYThis happened while you were driving?SKAGGSYeah. See. That’s why—JUDYShe gave you oral sex while you were driving?SKAGGSYes.JUDY(quietly)
You’re lucky you didn’t get into an accident and her severed head didn’t go flying through the windshield.SKAGGSGreat.JUDYSorry.SKAGGSJesus, Mom.JUDYPlease keep going.SKAGGSThis is exactly why I didn’t—JUDYJust… when you’re done? I have a story about something like that… sex in the car? And, um… one of the people actually died. Skaggs stands up, throwing the pillows aside.SKAGGSI’m done.JUDYSkaggs.SKAGGSI’m done. It’s over.JUDYI want to hear about Point Reyes!SKAGGSNo way. No way. And you know what? I don’t give actually give a fuck anymore. About any of it. So good job.
Skaggs gets up and walks into his bedroom. Judy and Gary look at each other.JUDYHave you ever done that?GARYWhat?JUDYSex in the car.
Gary nods. Judy sighs and shakes her head. Skaggs storms back in and snatches his cell phone off the kitchen table.JUDYAre you gonna listen to Meghan’s message?SKAGGSI’m calling Elijah.
He storms back into his bedroom and shuts the door. Judy shrugs.JUDY…I don’t know. I think maybe it helped.
Blackout.
Lights up on Skaggs sitting on the couch, eating saltines and drinking directly from a huge bottle of ginger ale. Judy is sitting next to him with a cup of tea.
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(calling out)
Cremated, Gary! Gary nods, not taking his eyes off the computer.SKAGGSBuried for me.JUDYOK… I don’t want to think about that.SKAGGSFine. But just…
(he whispers)
…buried. Judy nods.SKAGGSHey, Gary. Can I check email for a second?GARYI just started playing Nocturama.SKAGGSPlease? My laptop is being really weird.GARYHold on. I have to pause it.
(pause)
OK. Gary stands up and steps aside. Skaggs dashes over and starts typing. After a second, he stops and looks up at Gary.SKAGGSThanks. Gary shrugs. Skaggs stares at the computer.JUDYAnything good?SKAGGSJust something from Elijah.
(a long silence while he reads the email)
Huh.
(after a while, to Gary)
OK. Thanks. Skaggs stands there, thinking. Gary sits down and goes back to playing his game.JUDYWhat did he say?SKAGGSWeird.JUDYWhat?SKAGGSHe’s moving to LA.JUDYI thought he was working for that photographer downtown.SKAGGS
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(after a pause)
Anyway. He said he could get me a PA gig if I want it. Gary and Judy both look up.JUDYYou’re not gonna say yes, are you?SKAGGSNo. I’m not… I can’t have a job right now. I mean, I’m totally dysfunctional.
(pause)
That would be insane, right?
(They don’t respond. Skaggs scratches his head.)
That’s great that he’s going, though. LA is cool.JUDYI don’t know. It’s not so cool if the job is meaningless and you’re not helping anyone or creating anything worthwhile.SKAGGS…Yeah. A pause. Skaggs peers over Gary’s shoulder.SKAGGSSo that’s Nocturama?GARYUh-huh.SKAGGSWhat… like… what is it?GARYWhat do you mean?SKAGGSLike what… what’s the game?GARYIt’s, uh… well, you’re kind of in this underground world. Gary is still focused on the game. He doesn’t take his eyes off the screen.SKAGGSOK.GARYAnd, uh… you can’t really see much, because you’re moving through these caves?SKAGGS(peering over his shoulder)
Are you in a cave now?GARYYeah. And, uh… you can… I mean, it’s complicated. You… you can buy different sources of light from the priestesses, and, well, there’s this underground sort of church? It’s hard to explain. But, uh… that red thing I’m holding…
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(a fit of tapping on the keyboard)
I had to kill that shaman.JUDY(from the couch)
You killed a shaman?GARYHe was evil.
(Judy sighs and shakes her head.)
Anyway, you’re descending, you’re descending into the, uh, heart of this underground world, and the lower you go the darker it gets, so the more protection and, uh, light you need? And there are these… there are these killer rats and, uh, cave beasts? But if I’m… I’m pretty well stocked so I can just…SKAGGSWhoa. You just killed that rat.GARYWell, I eliminated him.SKAGGSWhat’s the difference?GARYHe might come back later. Gary keeps playing the game while Skaggs watches, rapt.SKAGGSThose graphics are insane, man.GARYYeah. It’s pretty good. A long silence while Judy watches Skaggs watch Gary play Nocturama.SKAGGSWhat’s like the goal?GARYOh. Well. You don’t really know until you get to the… but I’ve played it before, so I know. You… you enter the core, you go in—SKAGGSThe core of what?JUDYCore of the world?GARYWell. Kind of. You go in, and there’s this, uh, sorceress, she’s the one who removed all the light… that’s why you’ve had to buy it on the black market the whole time…SKAGGS…OK…GARY…and, anyway, you, you go against her, you have this big fight, and then if you kill her—
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(after a pause, quietly)
You should take that job.SKAGGSWhat?GARYDon’t tell your mom I said that. Judy reenters.JUDYWhere’s my chocolate? Skaggs and Gary both look up.JUDYMy chocolate is gone. (to Gary) Did you find it? Gary doesn’t say anything.JUDYGARY. Gary doesn’t respond. He keeps staring at the computer.JUDYOh my God. That is… I’ve… you can’t… I can’t believe this! You’ve never… I hid that so you wouldn’t be tempted to—SKAGGSChill out, man. I ate it.JUDYNo, you didn’t.SKAGGSI did. Yesterday. I ate the whole thing. I needed like a sugar high or whatever.JUDY(after a pause)
It’s really expensive chocolate, Skaggs.SKAGGSI’ll buy you a new one.
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(after a pause, to Gary)
Sorry.GARYIt’s OK. Judy walks back over to the couch and sits back down, dejected. Skaggs’s cell phone, which has been sitting on the ground, emits a small beep.JUDYYour phone just beeped.SKAGGSYeah.JUDYDoes that mean you have a message?SKAGGSYeah. Meghan called.JUDYAre you gonna listen to it?SKAGGSEventually.JUDYYou’re kidding me. You’ve been pining away for a month and you don’t want to—SKAGGSIt’s… the prospect of actually like hearing her voice in my ear after all this time is like… and she has this condescending thing she does? When she like knows she’s fucked up or in power or something? She sounds all kind of drippy and apologetic and like… I don’t know if I want to listen to her be like, Heey, I got your email, or whatever.JUDYI thought you missed her.SKAGGSI do. I do. But I miss… I like miss the time we went to visit her dad in Point Reyes. I mean, that was like two years ago. But I keep thinking about it. We were just really happy and relaxed and… I don’t know. I mean, it kills me, ’cause like that version of us is like totally dead.GARY(not looking up from the computer)
So you miss yourself.SKAGGSYeah. I mean, her too.JUDYThis is… this is perfect for EMDR. I’m telling you.SKAGGSAggh.JUDYBecause… it’s… you keep focusing on this memory. It’s obsessive thinking. What you need to do is find a way to process the memory and acknowledge it without causing yourself pain. Skaggs shakes his head.
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(she dims the lights)
Do you want to… hmm. You need to be relaxed. Why don’t we…
(she throws a bunch of pillows onto the floor)
You can just kind of prop yourself up on these.SKAGGSJesus. You’re really excited about this. He sits on the ground in front of the couch. Judy puts a pillow beneath his head and surrounds him with other pillows.JUDYAre you comfortable?SKAGGSI don’t know. Yeah. Judy turns on the green light on the EMDR contraption. Gary pauses Nocturama and watches.JUDYOK. I’m gonna… just follow this with your eyes. Back and forth.
(Skaggs follows it with his eyes)
Yup. Now. Before we… before we go into the memory, I want you to ask yourself a question. Ask yourself: “What is the best way I could feel, to be at my best in this situation?”SKAGGSWait, what?JUDYWhen you’re… the next time you experience this memory, how would you like to react? Don’t stop following the light.SKAGGSUh… I guess I’d like to not feel depressed?JUDYCan you state that positively?SKAGGSUh… I guess I’d like to feel not… sorry. Um. I’d like to feel calm?JUDYGood.SKAGGSAnd… uh… hopeful?JUDYGood.SKAGGSI thought I wasn’t supposed to feel hopeful. Judy stops moving the light.
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(Gary shakes his head. Judy starts moving the light again.)
OK. Now… take your time… but just… just start going through the memory. Start narrating it.SKAGGSThe whole thing?JUDYJust… live it again. But don’t close your eyes.SKAGGSOK. Um… we’d been dating for like ten months. We were staying in LA… and, uh, we decided to drive all the way up Highway 1 to her father’s house in Point Reyes.JUDYJust be back in it. Try to be back in it.SKAGGSOK. Uh. We’re driving. We’re in her aunt’s Jetta. We leave LA. We take 10 West to Santa Monica and then we put on, OK, so as we’re turning onto 1 we put on Joni Mitchell and we play “California” like right as the ocean comes into view and we start laughing at ourselves at, like, how cheesy we’re being but it’s actually like I actually feel kind of incredible and like the ocean is on my left and Meghan is driving and her window won’t roll up so her hair is like in her mouth and I keep putting my hand on her leg.JUDYYou’re doing really good.SKAGGSOK… so we drive up, up, up, and like through Malibu and the hills are all brown and we almost turn off in Topanga Canyon but, uh, then we don’t… and there are all these little people down by the ocean and she keeps being like, “Should we stop here?” And I’m like, “We’re gonna be driving past beach for the next nine hours, wait until we get to Big Sur.” A pause.
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(pause)
Anyway. We’re like these happy assholes and the next day we keep driving, we drive up to Big Sur, we stop and look at these fucking seals or sea lions or something, I forget, and at some point we stop in, uh, San Luis Obispo and after that Meghan starts calling me Obispo… which now that I think about it is such an infantile, stupid thing to call someone but at the time I thought it was incredibly charming or something and then we switch places and uh… He pauses.JUDYWhat?SKAGGSI’m censoring a certain part of the story.JUDYDon’t.SKAGGSYeah. I actually should.JUDYI’m not judging you.SKAGGSOK… uh… I start driving and then like somewhere just before we’re coming into San Francisco she gives me a blow job and it, like, feels so fucking good and I keep saying: “The top of my head is coming off.” I can’t stop saying that—“The top of my head is coming off”—and I’m driving into—JUDYThis happened while you were driving?SKAGGSYeah. See. That’s why—JUDYShe gave you oral sex while you were driving?SKAGGSYes.JUDY(quietly)
You’re lucky you didn’t get into an accident and her severed head didn’t go flying through the windshield.SKAGGSGreat.JUDYSorry.SKAGGSJesus, Mom.JUDYPlease keep going.SKAGGSThis is exactly why I didn’t—JUDYJust… when you’re done? I have a story about something like that… sex in the car? And, um… one of the people actually died. Skaggs stands up, throwing the pillows aside.
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