I overhear a conversation between two roommates. One is male, the other female. They previously lived together in the apartment next door but needed a two bedroom. The one next door became available so they recently moved in.
She said, "this apartment is worse than the other one."
He responded, "yeah, I know!"
"Look at all the paint the other tenants left here! I want this blue in the kitchen!" she said.
"I want the white for my room. What about the bathroom?" he said.
She said, "I don't know. I will see if Ray's mom has any paint she isn't using. We should also put a border in the kitchen. Ugh! I need to paint over that cream color, it looks dirty! And the entranceway is disgusting!"
He said, "yeah."
She smiled and said, "well at least there's a lot of closet space and places to put things up so the dogs can't get into stuff!"
Even in a quick observation piece, I'd always look for some sort of a literary resolution, even if that just means an arty kind of ironic hanging-close, which is not the same as just stopping.
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