Fight Club Monologue
Toddlers climbed and clomped around the playground area of the park as their watchful mothers sat gossiping and trading parenting tips currently in vogue. Sweethearts, half hidden by Willow trees, inhabited personal islands consisting of blankets, absorbed in each other as a group of skins and shirts played a game of two hand touch up and down the field.
Two silver haired gentlemen, engrossed in a chess game, met here everyday from spring thaw to first frost. Both were widowers and their wives had been best of friends. They found comfort in reminiscing together about their 'girls' and the foibles they had gotten up too, laughing until drifting off into bittersweet memories of their own. After a few moments, one of them would good-naturedly …show more content…
Want to give us heart attacks?"
The teen embarrassed, shook his head no and made a grab for the ball. Charlie reflexively snatched it back out of reach. "Whoa there, whoa, hey now son, I'm sure your mama taught you better. What are you supposed to say?"
"I'm sorry sir, Thank you sir. We'll be careful. Sorry again about the game." Mumbled the abashed child,
Charlie handed him the ball and the two men laughed watching the teen quickly dash away before he could be chastised again.
Charlie chuckling still, winked at Robert. "Ah youth. Were we ever that young Rob? Feel's like three lifetimes ago."
"I know what you mean Charlie." Rob said on a sigh. "Did you see that kid's face?" Robert snorted. "I think he thought you were going to lecture him all day."
"Me, what about you? Growling like a bear at the boy! Hah! I have to say kids these days are the same ignorant young pups we were, yet they haven't any of the manners. Common courtesy is going extinct." Charlie pronounced, gathering pieces and resetting the board.
"You'll hear no argument from me old friend, my sainted mother would've boxed my ears if I had referred to a senior as "Yo Dude" I blame it on squarely on the
Two silver haired gentlemen, engrossed in a chess game, met here everyday from spring thaw to first frost. Both were widowers and their wives had been best of friends. They found comfort in reminiscing together about their 'girls' and the foibles they had gotten up too, laughing until drifting off into bittersweet memories of their own. After a few moments, one of them would good-naturedly …show more content…
Want to give us heart attacks?"
The teen embarrassed, shook his head no and made a grab for the ball. Charlie reflexively snatched it back out of reach. "Whoa there, whoa, hey now son, I'm sure your mama taught you better. What are you supposed to say?"
"I'm sorry sir, Thank you sir. We'll be careful. Sorry again about the game." Mumbled the abashed child,
Charlie handed him the ball and the two men laughed watching the teen quickly dash away before he could be chastised again.
Charlie chuckling still, winked at Robert. "Ah youth. Were we ever that young Rob? Feel's like three lifetimes ago."
"I know what you mean Charlie." Rob said on a sigh. "Did you see that kid's face?" Robert snorted. "I think he thought you were going to lecture him all day."
"Me, what about you? Growling like a bear at the boy! Hah! I have to say kids these days are the same ignorant young pups we were, yet they haven't any of the manners. Common courtesy is going extinct." Charlie pronounced, gathering pieces and resetting the board.
"You'll hear no argument from me old friend, my sainted mother would've boxed my ears if I had referred to a senior as "Yo Dude" I blame it on squarely on the