Play 90: Tickets part V

CHARACTERS
MAN
TICKET SALESMEN

(The ticket salesmen is inside a ticket booth in a train station, the man is standing outside it talking to him.)

MAN
This is harder than I thought it would be.

TS
It always is.

(Pause.)

MAN
How about (beat.) my soul?

TS
Too cliché.

MAN
I should’ve known.

TS
I mean, who do you think I am, the devil?

MAN
No, sorry.

TS
It’s fine, you just cannot comprehend how many times I have heard that.

MAN
Okay.

(Pause.)

MAN
I can’t think of anything.

TS
Then you cannot have the tickets.

MAN
(Pleading.)
Please, just tell me something and I’ll give it up.

TS
I cannot do that.

MAN
Why not?

TS
Because it is not how it is done.

MAN
Who cares?

TS
I do.

MAN
Why?

TS
Listen, I am not going to have this conversation. Either think of something, or you leave here without the tickets. Take your pick.

(Beat.)

MAN
I need them.

TS
Then think of something.

(Pause.)

MAN
Just (beat.) what do you want?

TS
You should be asking yourself that, not me.

(Blackout.)