...And You Shake It All About...

CHARACTERS:

           80+ year old, home-maker grandmother:     Marilyn

Her 40+ year old, career-minded daughter-in-law:     Josie

SETTING:

Kitchen.

TIME:

Present.

[Lights up. Marilyn watches Josie wrestle with a roll of thick, black, un-perforated, city-supplied-mandatory-usage, garbage bags.  Josie has been helping* Marilyn clean the house for several days in a row.]:  Now see dear, being a house wife...that's what it's all about!!!

[Doing her best Ayn Rand, blank stare.]:  I thought it was the Hokey Pokey.

[Beat.]

[Black out.]

*Performing all house-hold duties while making Marilyn think she's executing them perfectly and all by herself.