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Leaping Off the Page: Any Time of the Year Edition

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by L. Ruth Carter


  The No Show

  A Sketch

  Two people - one should be a man, the other may be a man or a woman. They’re standing in a parking lot of a college, talking.

  Calvin: (or Colleen) Man! I can’t believe you got off like that!

  Dodge: Neither can I. I thought I was a goner for sure.

  Calvin: Was the coach mad?

  Dodge: Oh, yeah. At first, anyway. He was going to throw me off the team, fine me $200.00 and cancel my scholarship all in one blow.

  Calvin: Cancel your scholarship?

  Dodge: Yeah.

  Calvin: But that’s the only way you can afford college.

  Dodge: I know.

  Calvin: He was going to do that just because you missed one game?

  Dodge: (Shrugs) It would have been in his rights to do it. I am the quarterback, after all. It’s in the terms of the scholarship. They need me.

  Calvin: They sure do. Logan had to sub and his knee is still dicey. It cost us the game.

  Dodge: He wasn’t supposed to suit up for another week.

  Calvin: So what did you tell the coach?

  Dodge: The truth.

  Calvin: The truth? You crazy?

  Dodge: (Shrugs)

  Calvin: What kind of excuse was that?

  Dodge: Pretty lame, but it was the truth.

  Calvin: So how come coach let you off?

  Dodge: I don’t know. I guess he could see I was cut up about it.

  Calvin: So he let you off.

  Dodge: Yeah.

  Calvin: Wow.

  Dodge: Yeah. Wow.

  Calvin: So why are you hanging around the parking lot now? Shouldn’t you be off celebrating?

  Dodge: I’m waiting for Earl. We train together.

  Calvin: I thought you did that at two. It’s now (glances at watch) 4:30.

  Dodge: I know. He didn’t show today. That’s why I’m waiting here. He comes past here to get to his car after class. When I see him I’m going to give him what for. Nobody stands me up!

  Calvin : (Just stands there, stunned. He can’t believe it.)

 

  Curtain

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