The Day I Met My Fairy Godfather by Michael Moore

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(AT RISE: Bundled up in a coat, LUCIA McBARON is using the pay phone.)

LUCIA: What do you mean you quit towing after mid-night? It's twelve-fifteen. It's fifteen minutes! Have you no mercy? I'm freezin' my pa-tooty off out here!

(JOHNNY BELL enters with a broom and a lunch box. He wears a tattered coat and a name tag. He unlocks the toll-booth door and stands listening to her.)

LUCIA:(continuing; listening) What do you think I want? I want my car towed. I want my friggin' life back! Hey, don't you get smart with me. I'll report you to the BBB.(listening) No! No, don't hang up. I ain't got no more money! Hello? Hello? Oh, geeze.

(LUCIA hangs up the receiver.)

JOHNNY: Sounds like you've got troubles.

LUCIA: Geeze-louise! Scare the willies out of me.

JOHNNY: Sorry.

LUCIA: Who are you?

JOHNNY: Me? I'm the booth janitor. Johnny Bell's the name. Kinda late to be out, Ain't it, Miss...?

LUCIA: McBaron. Lucia McBaron. You sure you're a janitor?

(He places the broom in the booth.)

JOHNNY: (chuckling) That's what my name tag says.

LUCIA: (low, to herself) Geeze. Now there's ya a job.

JOHNNY: (louder, from inside the booth) At least I got one.

LUCIA: What?

JOHNNY: (from inside the booth) I said, "What's wrong with your car?"

LUCIA: The sorry clunker died! Hey, you gotta a quarter on you I could borrow? I'll pay you back.

JOHNNY: (from inside the booth) 'Fraid not.

LUCIA: Got a cell phone? That booth gotta phone?

(JOHNNY exits the booth.)

JOHNNY: Turn 'em off at ten.

LUCIA: Oh.

(Carrying his lunch box, he sits on the little curb that surrounds the booth. He opens the box lid and takes out his thermos. He pours some hot chocolate into a little cup and offers it to LUCIA.)

JOHNNY: I got some hot chocolate, though. Want some?

(She takes the cup. He pours some more into another cup for himself.)

LUCIA: Sure. Thanks. Anything to warm up.

JOHNNY: Where you headed?

LUCIA: Ah--up to Latham Street. To visit some friends.

JOHNNY: Must be some good friends; let ya visit 'em at midnight. (a beat)
Sure, you weren’t headed to that Salvation Army Shelter up on Holt?

LUCIA: Ha! Me? No way. I live in Fulgrum.

JOHNNY: Is that right?

LUCIA: Yeah. In a nice, big, warm house.

JOHNNY: Uh-huh.

LUCIA: What? You don't believe me?

JOHNNY: Sure, I do. It's just that--most of the people I seen from Fulgrum, don't drive cars--(nodding towards her car)--like that.

(LUCIA turns her back to JOHNNY as she stares off-stage at her broken-down car and. Her demeanor shows utter defeat. JOHNNY looks up towards the heavens.)

JOHNNY: See?

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