Lan Lan - 20 years old, college student, Jia Mingliang's girlfriend
Father - about 50 years old, farmer, Jia Mingliang's dad
Dajun -21 years old, college student, Jia Mingliang's hometown
Classmate A -21 years old, college student, Jia Mingliang's buddy
Act 1
Scene: School playground (there is a stone bench in the center right of the stage)
[Voice-over] Liang: Lanlan, come down, your book is still with me!
Lan: Hey~! I'll be right down~!
Lan: I'll be down in a minute~!
Ryo [backing out of the stage from stage right]: hurry up then~!
[Ryo walks to the stone bench] Hey~! I said pass the ball~! Throw! Throw! Strike!
[Ryo sits down, looks at his watch, Lan comes on]
Lan: Here it is! (Ran sits down) You've been waiting for me, haven't you?
Ryo: No, I'm not!
Lan: No? Then why are you looking at your watch?
Liang: I ...... look at today's number.
Lan: So what day is it?
Liang: April 25th ah!
Lan: What about six more days?
Ryo: Labor Day on May 1st~!
Lan: Besides May 1st?
Ryo: Besides May 1st or May 1st ah~!
[Lan looked angry, stood up and pretended to leave]
Liang [stood up to pull Lan Lan]: angry? I'm just teasing you! How could I forget your birthday present?
LanLan: Hate it~! (breaking into laughter) What are you going to give me for my birthday?
Ryo: I'll give you a bunch of roses!
Lan: [angry, sitting back on the stool] You only know how to give flowers?
Ryo: (coaxing Lan Lan) Then what do you want?
Lan: I want the dress I saw when we were shopping last time. Doesn't it look good on me? But you forgot to bring the money last time!
Liang: The one with more than 200 dollars?
Lan: Yeah!
[Ryo looks embarrassed]
Lan: What's wrong? Isn't your dad a big boss? Ask his old man for more! (Takes out chewing gum)
Liang: I ...... hey! I'll buy it for you! (Whispering) And buy you a birthday cake.
Lan: That's great! We'll take the new Crystal Lovers from Goodwill. It's so romantic!
Liang: How much does that cost?
Lan: It's only about two hundred!
Ryo: Huh?
Lan: What's wrong?
Ryo: Nothing! Nothing!
Lan: It's a deal then~! I knew you were the best for me! (looks at the clock) I have to go to class! Bye! （
[Liang sitting on a stone bench and worrying about his classmate A, who came on from stage left while making a phone call]
A: Liu, I'm not in a tight spot, I'll give it to you in a couple days! I'll give it to you in a couple of days! ...... No! Jia Mingliang that kid owes me four hundred dollars, so far also do not pay ......
I know! I know! You wait a little longer, when he pays me back, I'll pay you back! ...... definitely! I'm sure you'll be able to get it back! No problem! Okay. Thank you! Thank you, Mr. Liu!
[Ryo realizes A is ready to slip]
A: Jia Mingliang! Hey! It's really you kid!
Liang [snaps]: Wang, I have to go first, see you later~! [
A: [Grabbing Ryo] Stop right there! I've been looking for you for days! Speak up! When are you going to pay me back the four hundred dollars you owe me?
Liang: Wang brother, really sorry for you, I just two days ago to pay back the fat man three hundred, this small five son asked me for two hundred, I can not help it now ah ~!
A: Come on! You do not give me this set! I'm not sure what you're talking about, but I'd like to know when you're going to replace me.
Liang: You see ...... next month into it?
A: [impatient] Next month! Next month! How many fucking months have you told me about?
Ryo: I can't help it!
A: I'm thinking of the first of May, as we're all buddies here! By then you can't pay back the money, you can't blame me for not being polite ah!
Liang: Yes! No problem! [A down]
Liang: You take care! Ai~! I'm still worried about Lanlan's birthday! I'm still worried about Lanlan's birthday, but here comes another debtor! I'm in debt, who's going to lend me money? What can I do?
[Thinking] It seems that this is the only way. （
Act II
[Ryo takes out paper and pen, sits down to write a letter, and Dad, from the upper left, looks happy]
[Voice-over] What's he up to, Uncle?
Dad: Oh! His second aunt ah! I have a letter from Liangzi today, so I have to hurry home to check on him!
[voice-over] See how happy you are!
[Dad laughs, continues walking, walks up the steps, sits down, lights a cigarette, reads the letter]
Liang: Dad, are you all right?
Dad: Yes, yes, yes, yes, as long as you do well in school, dad everything is fine!
Leung: I don't plan to go home this May 1
Dad: [standing up] Why don't you come back again? Did something happen at school?
Liang: Dad, you don't have to worry, there is a TV station called me to go to internship
Dad: [change worry to joy] good thing ah! I'm not going to be able to do that! I'm not going to be able to do that!
Leung: But people said ...... to pay a thousand dollars internship fee, I ......
Dad: Hey! Why is it so hard to pay for a college student now? This money? Think of another way~!
Act III
[Lan Lan pulls Jia Mingliang up from the right]
Lan: Honey, is there something for me?
Liang: What is it?
Lan: [angry] Darn it! You forgot again? What about the birthday present you promised me?
Ryo: Oh! I'm busy these two days! I'll buy it in a couple of days, okay?
Lan: No. I want it now! I want it now!
Liang: Listen! Then let's go shopping tomorrow, okay?
[Lan's face is full of unhappiness]
[The army comes on]
Army: Jia Mingliang! Jia Mingliang!
Liang: [impatient] What is it?
Army: Get over here!
[Lights cigarette]
Jun: Liangzi, look what you've become!
Ryo: What's wrong with me?
Army: Look at you now, come to the university less than a year, smoking, drinking, fighting, absenteeism, you ......
Leung: This is none of your business ah?
Jun: Well, well, it's none of my business. [angry to go, and turned back] This is your father entrusted me to bring you the money, give you! ......
[Ryo takes the money and watches the big army go down]
Lan: Let's go on the street now~!
Ryo: Let's go~!
Scene 4
[In the morning, in a corner of the playground, Lan is wearing a new dress and practicing her voice with a mirror in her hand]
Lan:Hey,ha,...... 800 standard bearers stupid North Slope
[Dajun comes on the stage] Dajun: Lan Lan!
Lan: Hey, Da-jun go to class?
Dajun: No, I'm here to see you.
Lan: Is there something wrong? Oh. Look at the dress that Bright bought for me. Is it nice? (Spinning around)
Dajun: [expressionless]
Lan: Say, what do you want to see me about?
Dajun: [thinking for a moment] Then don't blame Mingliang if I tell you, okay?
Lan: What is it, so serious quickly said.
Dajun: In fact, bright his father is not a big boss at all. He's from the countryside, just like me.
Lan: [excited] No way! He even bought me a dress yesterday, and a cake, and we went to the park 。。。。。。
Dajun: Jia Mingliang, Jia Mingliang you mao can be your father sold blood money ah!
Lan: What? What? This, this, how is this possible?
Dajun: [taking out the letter] See for yourself!
Ran: [takes the letter, skims it impatiently, reads it quickly] Impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible (runs off)
Act 5
Ran: [expressionless, holding the letter, frozen]
[Ryo follows him onto the stage]. What's the matter, so urgent?
Lan: Ryo, I'm going to ask you one more time, is your dad a big boss or not?
Ja: Lan Lan, what's wrong with you?
Lan [loudly] you answer me!
Jia: [hesitantly] Didn't I tell you earlier?
Lan: [bitter smile] How much longer are you going to lie to me, you've been lying to me from the beginning to the end, for the sake of your vanity?
Ja: [intending to go up and pull Lan Lan] Lan Lan
Lan: [shrugging it off] Don't touch me!
Ja: Lan Lan, will you listen to me and explain?
Lan Lan [crying] These clothes are all from your father's blood. You still have to explain, what are you going to explain? （
Liang: [shocked, took the letter and opened it, Lan ran down]
Lighting dimmed, catching the light of Liang and Dad
Dad: Liangzi, I got your letter, everything is fine at home, don't worry.
This year's harvest was good, and Dad opened a tofu factory, and people from all over the country came to buy Dad's tofu
They all said that you have a good future, and Dad couldn't be happier.
Liang: Dad~!
Dad: Liangzi, you must cherish these years of schooling! You should learn well and not let down your folks' expectations of you!
Leung: [action]
Dad: Leung, outside is not compared to home, do not compromise yourself, want to eat and drink what you buy ...... your mother died early, with the father you did not have to suffer, the father's heart ......
Leung: Dad!
Leung: Dad! I know, you at home is not easy ah ~!
Dad: Not easy? What's not easy? As long as you learn well, dad is to smash pots and pans to sell iron also want to give you out!
Leung: Dad~!
Dad: Liangzi, remember the year you went to high school, you took the first place in our county, Dad was happy all night, but our family is poor, Dad did not have the money to buy you a gift, only to give you a dumpling.
Liang: The dumplings smelled really good! I still can't forget that flavor.
Dad ......[Kneel]
[Dad stretched out his hand in the direction of Liang and looked into the distance]
"Birthday"
One Touching Birthday
People Teacher Around 20 years old, just graduated from teacher training.
Students Sixth grade in elementary school.
Time Teacher's Day of a certain year.
Location Dormitory; classroom.
Scene 1 Inside a teacher's dormitory, a table and chair with a lamp, books, etc. on the table.
[Curtain: the teacher appears, enters the dormitory, puts down the cardboard box, sits down at the table, pulls out a picture frame, caresses it, and talks to himself]
Teacher Mom, you see, I promised you that I would never cry again, but today, I made an exception, these students are so cute, look, these are all the greeting cards that they sent me, all of which they made with their own hands...Here, this is the one drawn by Xiao Qiang...and there is also a poem by Li...and this one, this one, and this one, this one, and this one, and this one.... And this one, this one ...... Mom, today is my birthday and my first Teacher's Day, and I'm going to have a second one, and a third one, and a fourth one. Mom, you are right, choose to be a teacher, I will never regret in my life . Because just now ......
(turn to memories)
Scene 2 Inside the classroom, the teacher and the students are setting up the classroom, there are those who move the tables, wipe the chairs, write on the blackboard, carry water.
Student A Teacher, do you think it's okay to write like this?
Teacher En, it's good.
Student B: Teacher, look, are our desks lined up?
Teacher, move it back a bit, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Student C (leaning toward the teacher) Look, Xiao Mei is staring again!
Teacher She's tired, give her a break!
Student D Teacher, next, rub a rag for me.
[The teacher sniffed and walked towards the bucket, but the rag was thrown, but it fell in the bucket, the water splashed out and wet the teacher's face, she took off her glasses in a hurry]
Student D I'm sorry, teacher, I didn't mean to do it, I ......
Teacher It's okay, it's okay, I'm going to go and wash it, you guys. hurry up, the class meeting will start in a while.
Student B It's you, what are you throwing blindly? Look at the teacher's clothes are wet!
Student D I didn't do it on purpose, and besides ......
B and C: It's your fault! ......
Mei Stop it, you guys, do you think, our teacher looks like a person? She just took off her glasses more like!
Student D Like a person? A-Mei?
Mei No!
Student A Then, like Rene Liu?
Xiaomei Well ...... (shakes head)
Student B Oh, I know, (students gather) it's Andy Lau.
[Students disperse]
All together What ah!
Student D Teacher male or female?
Student B Of course the teacher is female, but, but, so you tell me, who does the teacher look like?
Mei I don't know! Anyway, she just looks like someone.
Student D Teacher, teacher is like a person, she is a person.
Mei, I'm talking to you! （
Student A Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay!
Teacher (entering the classroom) What who looks like who?
Student A Nothing, nothing. (cover)
Student B Xiao Mei said you look like someone. (Stopped by A)
Teacher Like a person ...... (thoughtfully, put on his glasses) Let's not talk about it, it's almost time, let's start!
Student A En, everyone sit down, (a short pause, clearing his throat) Now, the sixth grade class A "my ideal" theme class meeting officially began. Today is September 10th Teachers' Day, let us first wish our teachers, Happy Teachers' Day!
Teacher Thank you, thank you all.
Student A Next, let's all talk about our ideals.
Division Students 1 Today is our class meeting, you do not have to be as casual as in class, enthusiastic ah!
Student B (turning to both sides) You first? You first? Neither, I'll go first then! My dream is to be a soldier, to protect my country!
Student C Come on, you're the one defending the country.
Student B What's wrong with me, then you, what's your ideal? (Everyone laughs)
Student C Not at all!
Sensei It's a miracle worker, right?
Student C Yes, I'm going to be a wonderful doctor.
Student D Look, what kind of ideals do you have? I'm going to be a famous architect when I grow up and build the tallest, most beautiful building in the world. Hey, do you know why the World Trade Center was bombed?
All together (seriously) why?
Student D. Wait till I rebuild it! （
May Don't argue, don't argue, I'm going to tell you about my dream, I want to be a Ming .......
All stars!
Student B Everyone on earth knows that!
Mei That's my ideal, what's wrong with stars? They need to give, too, to get something, that's what the teacher said, right, teacher?
Teacher Yes, no matter what your ideal is, you'll only get something out of it if you've really paid for it.
Student A Hey, then teacher, what is your ideal?
[ 一席话引起大家的兴趣]
争问 对啊，老师,说你的理想吧!
Student D Then there is no need to ask, of course, is to be a teacher!
Sensei (slowly get up, laugh) In fact, since childhood, I have always wanted to be a translator, to learn many languages, but, aspire to be a people's teacher, to or three years ago!
Student A Three years ago? Why did you change your mind?
Teacher Why? Why? (Into reverie) For the sake of, for the sake of my mom.
All together Your mom?
Division Yes, (pause) Xiaomei, didn't you say I look like one? In fact, I brought her today too, because I know she must want to attend this class meeting too ......(take out the picture frame)
[Students whisper among themselves, or they can look around.
Teacher Look, you guys, who is she?
All together Mr. Wang? (gets up and looks closer)
Mei I told you! So it's Mr. Wang, our homeroom teacher from three years ago. Just missing a pair of glasses,, she is your ...... mom?
Teacher Yes, three years. (Students slowly sit down, only B is still standing)
Student B Three years, when Ms. Wang was sick, the big guys went to the hospital to see her, she was still talking and laughing with us, who knows less than a ...... week, just, just ...... (pulled down by A) Sit)
Division When you went to see her, I was at the door, at that time, mom was really happy, in fact, I have always been very jealous of you guys, behind my back and did not complain about you a group of brats hogging my mom, she always have unfinished papers to approve, change unfinished homework, but do not have the time to accompany me to walk around the park for a time,.
Student C But Mr. Wang tutored us in composition for two or three hours.
Teacher That's her, you may not know, she was in her hospital bed, she also recited who's composition has improved again, who has the gift of recitation ah, memory, mom has never recited what my merits, until, until I told her, I want to take her class, also want to be a people's teacher, she smiled admiringly, touched my head, and said, child, choose to be a teacher, you will never regret. (choked)
Yiqi Teacher ......
Teacher (back to his senses, wiping away his tears) Ah, sorry, I digress! Today, I especially, especially miss my mom, maybe-maybe it's because twenty-two years ago today, I was born, and that day was her first Teacher's Day! (Two students quietly get off)
Teacher Hey, this light ......
[The lights dim, the music starts, and the students come up holding the cake, the candlelight reflecting on everyone's face.
[Music turns soft.
Student A Teacher, I inadvertently learned of your birthday, today, let us and Mr. Wang, with you, this special birthday, this special Teacher's Day.
Teacher I, what can I say? Mom, you see, your students, my students, our students have grown up, and I am already a teacher, but I have also realized my childhood ideal of becoming a translator of love, mom, are you happy?
[Music crescendoing, in the center of the stage, the teacher holding the cake, the students surrounded on both sides, looking up, broken fluorescent paper scattered.
Family Drama "Buying Clothes"
Family Drama Buying Clothes
Main Characters: Dad, Son (Xiaohua)
Opening:
1
"Sentimental Music" Soundtrack
Boss: (taking out two hundred dollars) A catty of cabbage a piece of money, two hundred catties will be two hundred dollars.
Dad: Boss, last month the wholesale price of a catty of cabbage was a dollar three?
Boss: (disdainful) Last month is still last month, this month is still this month, the market price of vegetables often fluctuates.
Dad: Yesterday, my neighbor wholesale a catty of a dollar three, you are not clearly extortion
Boss: Yes, so what, do not sell you pick to another
Dad: Boss, you're not making it difficult for me, you know that today there is only one store you want to cabbage, the boss, you will be more ah, we are early in the morning more than three o'clock on the vegetable field to cut the vegetables, and also to ride a tricycle the two hundred pounds of cabbage ran more than thirty minutes, but also to the market, the price of vegetables, the price of vegetables, the price of vegetables, the price of vegetables, the price of vegetables, the price of vegetables, the price of vegetables, the price of vegetables. （
Doctor: You are not making it difficult for me, you have already sold your blood, and now you want to sell your kidney, your body is already very weak, you will die without a kidney, and I can't afford to take the responsibility in case there is a death.
Mom: Doctor, please be kind
Doctor: Auntie, please take it as my request, you'd better go back (leave)
Mom: Doctor, doctor 、、、、、 (helplessly leave)
3
The house is simple, there are only two chairs in the house
Dad is moving around the house (anxiously)
Mom fainted when she reached the door
Papa hurriedly hugged Mom and put her on the bed, covered her forehead with a towel, and Mom gradually opened her eyes, her voice weak: (pulling out the money) Send it to your son, so that he can eat well and wear good clothes, and don't let people look down on him.
Dad distressed: you that come so much money, you go to sell blood again, I did not tell you not to go well, and your body has always been bad, you have to,, (sob)
Mom: (cough) all right, my body can be healthy ah, on the transfusion of a little bit of blood is not a big deal, and rely on the monthly sale of vegetables of this money is not enough to son to buy a piece of clothing, (contemplation) do not know how his son is living (cough) old man, (dad), (dad), (cough), (cough), (cough), (sob).
Mom (laughs): You are old and confused, go back to bed and sleep, do not worship God here, you have to worship God some other day to go to the temple to worship.
Dad: who worship God, just a little sleepy yawn
Mom: do not insist, go back to bed, remember to send money to his son tomorrow
4
University, the dormitory of four people in the game of poker
Residence Hall 1: Xiaohua, your letter
Residence Hall 2: Maybe your father and send money to it, you can be happy to wear brand-name clothes and eat brand-name dishes, we do not have your kind of blessings
Residence Hall 2: Maybe your father sent money to the money, you can wear brand-name clothes and eat brand-name dishes.
Small Hua turned around and opened the letter outside the campsite
Son:
Son:
Son, how are you doing? Parents don't know how to read, so I asked my neighbor, Ah Mao, who is an elementary school student, to write a letter to you. My parents are illiterate and uneducated, so I can only pick up heavy burdens and do hard work all day long, so I hope that you can study well and find a job in the future. I no longer sell vegetables, I changed jobs, in the city to do carpentry, the income is not bad, the mayor of the village is very good to our family and even pushed me to be the next mayor of the village, the family's life to run a well-off ah, your mother's health is also getting better and better day by day ah, so you don't worry about the family, study hard, if you need money with the family to ask for money, dad to send it up to you, that's it, the mayor of the village to urge me to go to the meeting ah.
5
Mom: Time flies, five years have passed, I don't know how my son is doing now, old man, you go to the city to see my son
Papa: This is, I'm gone, what will you do
Mom: I'm not a child, I've planted vegetables and potatoes at home, I'm not going to die of hunger
Papa: Look at you, you're saying ah, your body,...
Papa: I don't know, I don't want to die, I don't know, I don't want to die, 、、、、 I can not rest assured ah
Mom: I'm such a big man still do not?1 take care of themselves ah? Besides, you will only be gone for a few days, so don't worry about it, see how your son is doing, I haven't seen him come home for a few years, and I am really worried that something might have happened to him
Dad: This 、、、、、、 (reluctantly went to the city to see his son)
The station
Small Hua's father came to the big city and dialed his son at the station
Dad: Dad arrived at the station, but he was not there. >Dad: Xiaohua, Dad has arrived at the Tianhe District Terminal.
Small Hua (shocked) Dad, stand there and don't move, I'll come to pick you up. (hung up the phone)
Dad: The buses in big cities are not the same, there is no conductor, I didn't realize that the city has such a great offer, you don't have to pay for the bus!
Foreigner: Excuse me! Can you tell me how to get the bank of China ?
Dad (dumbfounded): Oh .yeah, yeah, yeah .
The foreigner, puzzled, shook his head and walked away.
Dad: What's with all the foreign devils, hasn't China been liberated? Did the foreign devils invade China again?
Then Xiaohua arrived.
Small Hua: Dad! (They hugged each other.) Dad, you've worked hard!
Dad: It's been five years, and I'm relieved to see that you're doing well now (sobs).
Xiaohua: Dad, don't be like this.
Dad: the first two years you went home once, but then never returned, we thought something had happened to you (sobbing).
Small Hua: I ...... couldn't find a good job the first two years, no money, no face to go home.
Dad (serious): no money, not go home? Your mother is looking forward to your return every day, your mother is worried about you can not sleep at night, people lost a lot of weight.
Xiaohua: Dad, I ...... can't apologize to my mother! (Sobbing)
Dad: two years after you called back to say you found a unit, why not go back? To know your mother ...... (sobbing)
Small Hua: I ...... I found a woman, busy setting up this end of the home.
Dad (sternly): have this head home forget that head home, have a wife to forget the parents, you know that head is also your home, pulling and pulling to raise you, and now good, do not want to parents (sobbing, sad).
Small Hua: Dad, don't be like this, my son is wrong.
Dad: Let's not talk about it, take me to see my future daughter-in-law.
Small Hua (in a hurry): She...she...went on a business trip, she will return in two weeks, I will bring her home to see you then. (Looking at his father's clothes, which have been mended many times) Dad, I'll take you to buy some clothes.
Dad: there is no place to spend the money, I am very good, how comfortable to wear, no need to waste money.
Xiaohua: Dad, don't push it, just take it as a token of my son's appreciation, let's go!
(Clothes store)
Dad (backing up): It's very expensive!
Small China: go in!
Dad sees women's underwear and backs off: this is for women's clothes!
Small Hua: No, there are men inside, go in, you see that one you like, order it, wait for me to come back and then pay, I go to the restroom and then back. (Leave)
Dad: Yo, nowadays city people are really not shy, put banners everywhere to publicize the sale of sex toys, college students through the streets to distribute condoms, nowadays women's underwear is still lying around.
Small Hua's father (referred to as Dad): carefully look around for fear of breaking something.
Boss's wife (stern voice): Hey! (Dad was startled) You stinking beggar how to come here, eat leopard's gall!
Dad: Sister...
Boss lady: I am very old? Call me Miss!
Dad (stammers): Miss, I...I came to buy clothes.
Old: buy clothes? Look at you this beggar's appearance can afford to buy clothes! To cheap go out outside to find stalls!
Dad: I have money.
Old: your money enough to buy a pair of underwear? I've got 200 yuan for the lowest-priced clothes here!
Dad: What, 200 yuan? Robbery!
Old: That's robbery, if you don't have money, get out of here!
Dad: I don't have it, but my son does.
Old: Like father, like son, your son is still the same as you, no better, get out!
Dad: What?
Old: I told you to get out! I don't know how to understand such simple English, but I don't know how to understand it!
Dad (anxious): What, do not slander us country people, early two lifetimes we did not read, do not know words, but now the children are reading, all go to college, some also took the Tsinghua University, Peking University and other prestigious universities, are cultured and knowledgeable young people.
Old (contempt): famous brand? Dog brand! One in a hundred million is lucky enough to get in!
Dad (angry): people say that the country people have no cultural cultivation, I did not think that some city people are even more culturally uneducated, it is difficult for us farmers to work hard to plow the fields and planting to the city to bring food, but for you this batch of stupid sows to eat!
Old: What are you talking about, who is a stupid sow? Nowadays, machinery is developed, and machines are used to plow the fields, and food can be imported from foreign countries, and the food grown with science is much more delicious than yours, so who still eats your hand-me-down food?
Dad (more angry): sad, really sad!
Young people: "The same room, each other." Most of the city people are developed from the rural people, or the country people are the father of the city people, the world is divided into two kinds of people: the rich and the poor. No poor are rich. Then there would be no one to build railroads, bridges and other facilities; how would the rich live? How can there be rich people without poor people? As the saying goes, "If you are poor, you can't be poor for a lifetime; if you are rich, you can't be rich for a lifetime." City people, country people or rich and poor, the status is equal, there should not be any discrimination."
Dad: Well said!
Old (and angry): Mr. teach is, buy clothes, casually look. (Waiting for the young man to go away and then pull up his face)