by Bryce Henderson (one must have seen or at least understand melodrama to appreciate this piece)

I walked into the room on that dreary september after...blah blah blah... ugg my job is getting annoying. Everything is just so predictable. The same basic rutine over and over again. You'ld think those stupid melodrama authors out there would try and have some creativity. Oh well, back to the play. The drunk was sitting at a table in the middle of the room with a cup of milk in his hand, not drinking it, just staring at it and mumbling something like "should i drink it, no, it's wrong"
I walked over to the table and took the milk from his hand and gulped it down. "Hey i was gonna drink that Slik" Yes my character's name is Slik, guess how original that is.
"No yuh wasn't, besides that milk had booze in it, and yuh told yuh lady friend yuh'ld stop drinking booze, didn't yuh"
"Uh, yeh" said the drunk with an undertone that screamed "I'm supposed to drink this, it's part of the play. I drink the milk with alcohol in it and i revert to my old ways. You're derivating from the script you idiot, it's a Broadway melodrama, not an adlib game from comedy club. I hope the crowd and our director rips you to pieces when the play is over"
Well this will be the 17th melodrama i have acted in, always the bad guy. Never once was i allowed to adlib whatsoever and my parts were becoming more and more monotonous and pathetic by the second. So i decided just to use my unused talents to spice this one up just for the heck of it. I'ld allready decided this was the last melodrama i was going to be in, why not go out in style. Besides i want to show those uncreative play writers and that good for nothing director of mine who only directs melodramas that...uh...well whatever i just want to piss them off and have fun in doing so.
"So yuh don't want to be letting her down do you?" I said while laughing inwardly at how uncomfortable i was making the rest of the cast and crew feel.
"But you put the booze in my milk, you want me to drink it, why are you stopping me now?" The guy who played the drunk (No i don't remember his name. And why should i? After 17 plays that are all the same the knowledge you acquire about each new person you meet along the way just swirls into one big puddle of nueralogical confusion which gets flushed down the toilot after every play. All thats left is a dim remembrance of a face and the character it played.) was obviously a fast thinker because the moment i went off script he must have started thinking of a way to remedy the situation. He just might be the first person i've worked with me through my whole career whose IQ is at least above the negatives. For that he atleast deserves a minute portion of my respect.
"I decided i didn't want to decieve you"
"But i allready knew"
"Then why would you drink it"
"Because it's part of the f---ing play you a--hole!" (Wow he really lost it. I didn't think he'ld get mad enough that he'ld break character. Nasty words, especially when there are kids in the audience. Tsk Tsk. Such a hot head.) With this he got up and rushed off the stage. I doubt he was seen the rest of the play, i wasn't paying attention. He might have gone off and killed himself because he thought his career was ruined, i could really care less.
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