Head, Face and a rainy morning

An adventure in four parts.

SCENE 1: The morning light is dim, and the thick cloud and intermittent fog hide the sun completely. The wind whips what little rain there is into vicious horizontal streaks that slap and dash at your face. Daniel is walking along the narrow footpath that leads through the park and towards the office. As he walks, he struggles with his cheap, plastic umbrella, which threatens to turn inside-out at any moment. He hears a car behind him, and half turns. A large black sedan slows as it passes him, then accelerates away. It is driven by MR HEAD.

DAN: (ASIDE) You utter, utter bastard.

SCENE 2: It is raining.

SCENE 3: Daniel shoulders through the front door of the school and shakes off his now badly misshapen umbrella, before placing it in the already crowded rack. On his forehead beads of sweat mix with drops of rain, shaken from his hair. As he makes his way up the stairs to the staffroom, he meets with MR HEAD, who is revealed to be a sports teacher at the school, and another man, MR FACE.

MR HEAD: Oh, isn’t a shame, I saw him walking to school today. He looked cold.
MR FACE: Ha. Ha. Ha.
DAN: Ha. Ha. Ha.
MR HEAD: Ha. Ha. Ha.
DAN: (ASIDE) You utter, utter bastard.

SCENE 4: It is still raining.

Posted in Rant on Thursday April 27, 2006.