Chapter 10-Time to Work
(Everyone has split up, trying to find jobs. They are all still angry at Shawn for forgetting their tickets. They all meet up in the town square)
Shawn: So, you find anything?
Eric: I found a job, as a gardener, but it didn't pay enough to get us out of here in two weeks.
Shawn: Hey Topanga, did you find anything?
Topanga: I found a job as a photographer, it paid a lot of money too. It was a permanent job, though.
Jack: There was a plummer job, but I don't know how to use a wrench and I don't want to show my crack off to all my clients.
Angela: I got nothing
Shawn: Rachael?
Rachael: Nothing.
Cory: I found a job. Pays a lot of money and has good hours. It's also part time.
Shawn: Well, what is it?
Cory: Doesn't matter anyway. It's only for college students.
Eric: Well, all of you are what about 20. Me, Jack, and Rachael are 23. We can pass off as college students.
Jack: Eric's got a point.
Shawn: What's the job, anyway?
Cory: Oh, it's over here, on this message board.
(Cory takes down the flyer and starts to read it aloud)
Are you a college student who's looking for a part time job with a decent
salary? Well you've read the right flyer!
Job Description
Paint the house on 1336 Beachside Road Work for three hours a day Pays twenty dollars an hour
Interested? Well come meet me, Mr. Tompkins, at the address above on
Saturday, June 16 to start work. Be there at 8:00 a.m. sharp!
(Cory folds the flyer and puts it in his pocket)
Topanga: June 16? That's this Saturday!
Jack: Exactly! If the job pays twenty an hour, that means we'll make sixty dollars a day.
Shawn: If we get started at 8:00 every morning, that means we'll be done by 11:00 and we can get on the beach by 11:30.
Cory: We might have enough to fly first class.
Topanga: No, I just ran the calculations in my head. We'll only have enough to pay for the two extra weeks in Barbados and are airplane tickets. On that salary, we can only afford coach.
Cory: Little Ms. Pregnant Know-it-all.
Topanga: That's Mrs.
Shawn: So we start Saturday. Today's only Thursday, so we go two more days until we have to start working. That's two more days of relaxation.
Eric: This vacation has been anything but relaxing.
Cory: I agree.
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(It's Saturday morning and it's 8:30, Mr. Tompkins still hasn't shown up)
Shawn: He's not going to show.
Topanga: Don't worry, he'll show. He just probably wanted to sleep in because he had a "busy night."
Eric: That's just nasty!
(They see a 2001 black Lexus pull into the driveway)
Jack: Nice car.
Mr. Tompkins: Sorry I'm late, I had to pick up my suit from the dry cleaners.
Cory: Ha, you were wrong, Topanga.
Mr. Tompkins: So, what are the names of you kids?
Cory: I'm Cory
Topanga: I'm Topanga
Eric: I'm Eric
Rachael: I'm Rachael
Angela: I'm Angela
Shawn: I'm Shawn
Jack: And I'm Jack.
Mr. Tompkins: Ok, what University do you go to?
Rachael: We go to Pennbrook in Philadelphia and we came down to Barbados for the summer.
Mr. Tompkins: Now let me tell you more about your job. You will give the house four coats of paint, all yellow. One you finish that I want you to give the railings and the frame around the windows two coats of white paint. Is that understood?
Everyone: Yes.
Mr. Tompkins: Ok, you can get all your things you need to work in the back of that truck and I'll be back in a couple of hours to give you today's pay.
(So, everyone is back on track and in two weeks they'll be off the island, or so they think. Sorry it took so long to put up this Chapter, I had a writer's block. But it won't be that way for Chapter 11, I'm back on track, up soon!
(Everyone has split up, trying to find jobs. They are all still angry at Shawn for forgetting their tickets. They all meet up in the town square)
Shawn: So, you find anything?
Eric: I found a job, as a gardener, but it didn't pay enough to get us out of here in two weeks.
Shawn: Hey Topanga, did you find anything?
Topanga: I found a job as a photographer, it paid a lot of money too. It was a permanent job, though.
Jack: There was a plummer job, but I don't know how to use a wrench and I don't want to show my crack off to all my clients.
Angela: I got nothing
Shawn: Rachael?
Rachael: Nothing.
Cory: I found a job. Pays a lot of money and has good hours. It's also part time.
Shawn: Well, what is it?
Cory: Doesn't matter anyway. It's only for college students.
Eric: Well, all of you are what about 20. Me, Jack, and Rachael are 23. We can pass off as college students.
Jack: Eric's got a point.
Shawn: What's the job, anyway?
Cory: Oh, it's over here, on this message board.
(Cory takes down the flyer and starts to read it aloud)
Are you a college student who's looking for a part time job with a decent
salary? Well you've read the right flyer!
Job Description
Paint the house on 1336 Beachside Road Work for three hours a day Pays twenty dollars an hour
Interested? Well come meet me, Mr. Tompkins, at the address above on
Saturday, June 16 to start work. Be there at 8:00 a.m. sharp!
(Cory folds the flyer and puts it in his pocket)
Topanga: June 16? That's this Saturday!
Jack: Exactly! If the job pays twenty an hour, that means we'll make sixty dollars a day.
Shawn: If we get started at 8:00 every morning, that means we'll be done by 11:00 and we can get on the beach by 11:30.
Cory: We might have enough to fly first class.
Topanga: No, I just ran the calculations in my head. We'll only have enough to pay for the two extra weeks in Barbados and are airplane tickets. On that salary, we can only afford coach.
Cory: Little Ms. Pregnant Know-it-all.
Topanga: That's Mrs.
Shawn: So we start Saturday. Today's only Thursday, so we go two more days until we have to start working. That's two more days of relaxation.
Eric: This vacation has been anything but relaxing.
Cory: I agree.
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(It's Saturday morning and it's 8:30, Mr. Tompkins still hasn't shown up)
Shawn: He's not going to show.
Topanga: Don't worry, he'll show. He just probably wanted to sleep in because he had a "busy night."
Eric: That's just nasty!
(They see a 2001 black Lexus pull into the driveway)
Jack: Nice car.
Mr. Tompkins: Sorry I'm late, I had to pick up my suit from the dry cleaners.
Cory: Ha, you were wrong, Topanga.
Mr. Tompkins: So, what are the names of you kids?
Cory: I'm Cory
Topanga: I'm Topanga
Eric: I'm Eric
Rachael: I'm Rachael
Angela: I'm Angela
Shawn: I'm Shawn
Jack: And I'm Jack.
Mr. Tompkins: Ok, what University do you go to?
Rachael: We go to Pennbrook in Philadelphia and we came down to Barbados for the summer.
Mr. Tompkins: Now let me tell you more about your job. You will give the house four coats of paint, all yellow. One you finish that I want you to give the railings and the frame around the windows two coats of white paint. Is that understood?
Everyone: Yes.
Mr. Tompkins: Ok, you can get all your things you need to work in the back of that truck and I'll be back in a couple of hours to give you today's pay.
(So, everyone is back on track and in two weeks they'll be off the island, or so they think. Sorry it took so long to put up this Chapter, I had a writer's block. But it won't be that way for Chapter 11, I'm back on track, up soon!