Dinner

Sheila you havent touched your asparagus
You know what tom maybe I'm jus-just-sorta-
maybe I'm not in the mood for asparagus tonight
You love asparagus why arent you eating
You know I don't know tom

Why don't you tell me why I'm not eating
Jesus Christ what's your problem I
Wanted to come out and have a nice dinner
Oh, yeah no, nonono, I'm so glad you took us out here tom

Thanks soo much for bringing us out
Here and having this great dinner together
I-I I'm thrilled
I′m thrilled
Youre being sarcastic

Oh no, nooo no I'm not being sarcastic
I'm so happy to be here
K-great to be here tom
Ok what?

What the hell is going on here?
what's your problem?
You wanna know what my problem is tom?
You wanna know what my problem is?
We′re sitting here
We're spending

Ridiculous amounts of money on a steak
When you know damn well we can't afford it
Jesus Christ is this what this is abou-
Is this what this is about?
This is what our entire lives is about tom
don't sit here and act stupid telling
Me you don't know what I'm talkin′ about

Jesus Christ can you just lower your voi-
Sh (interrupting, louder): Oooh yeah lemme lower my voice for you tom
Let me make it-let me just make everything ok by
Lowering my voice I wont cause a scene here tom
Certainly wont wanna embarrass you in this restaurant

Jeez-scuse me could we get the cheque please?
Oohh yeah that's-that's a great idea, lets get the cheque
Yeah lets ruin this evening
Just like youve ruined every other evening for the past eight months
What the fuck is this about sheila?
What the fuck is this about?

Maybe its about the fact that we havent been able
To afford our mortgage payments for almost a year!
Dyknow what that does to me?
Dyknow what that's doing to us?
Jesus Christ we′re I- listen ok I I ca-
I've been out of work for a few months its not a-
For a few months?

Jesus Christ you are the king of
Understatements tonight tom, the king
You know how long youve been out of work, eight months
Dyknow any idea what we owe on this house?
No!

No you don't because you don't look at the goddamn bills!
I sit there every night with my head buried in a pile of this shit
Chocolates in my left hand, bwuh
A glass of wuh- of red wine in my right hand, yknow what we owe?

You have any idea what we owe on the house?
No I jus- I thought maybe we just sit here and joy-
I mean maybe cn we maybe talk about this after dinner?
Oh yes
Yes
Definitely tom

Everythings ok now
Because you said, can we talk about this after dinner
I tell you what
We go back home, and in the meantime we're just gonna act like
Nothings wrong, we′re just gonna sit here

Have dinner and we'll just talk about it after
We′ll talk about it after tom
Alright would you just settle down Sheil-

We owe a hundred-and twenty
Thousand dollars, on the house
A hundred and twenty thousand dollars tom!
Butchu wouldnt know about that wouldchu
You wouldnt know that because not only have you not lifted a finger
To look at the bills

You also havent lifted a finger to get yous-
Yourself some fucking work over the past year
So we can't afford anything!
We can't afford this dinner! (crying) we can't afford our lives
And we can't afford the clothes on our
Childrens backs because you can't work!
You can't fucking work tom!

TThank you
Thank you very mu- no you can relax, heres the card thank you

Thank you
Sheila listen, I I I I I didnt mean to make y-
You didnt mean to make me upset??
Yknow youve made me very upset tom!
I'm sitting-we′re sitting here in the
Middle of dinner, youve made me extremely upset!

And now I'm ugh-
No no its just a- sheila can you
Jus wait we're gonna get out of her-
I can′t wait!
I can't wait now we′re here!
We're here and its dark!
And I don't give a shit if we embarrass ourselves ok?!

Yeah that's right!
Oh everyone quiet down!
Everyone quiet down 'cause now youre
Listening to the couple that's arguing!
Oh good job!

Now everyones arguing erryones hangry an jus-
Sheila jus g-
You calm down!
You calm down tom!
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