LUCY
There’s something about people who drink tea.
They always think they’re so high up in society. Just because they drink tainted water they consider themselves as some sort of royalty or something. Next thing ya know they’ll start sticking their pinkies high in the air like the Queen of England or some crap. But honestly their a bunch of hippies if you ask me.
You can’t trust them. Only people who hide things drink tea.
People with guilt.
Who else would put themselves through that xcruseationg pain of drinking dirty water?
(LUCY looks around at the other chairs in the circle)
At my first AA meeting they served tea. I thought-how fitting. They’re all replacing one burning substance …show more content…
I can’t blame them, if I didn’t have any self-dignity I would probably do the same thing.
Why do you think people do that to themselves? Remind them of their failures? I don’t get it.
My mother always told me if you want to be reminded of your failures all the time, just have children. You’ll never be able to escape them. Those where the last words my mother every told me and they stuck. She was such a bitter old hag in the end, blamed me for everything ya know? She yelled at me every day for not becoming a doctor and saving her from cancer. I could never put a smile on her face, no matter how hard I tried. And I tried. All she did eat sleep and go to mass so she could have tea with the “girls” after. Ya know, I even became the Sunday school supervisor down at the church, but nothing could change the fact that I took an art major in college instead of going into medicine.
(LUCY starts frantically laughing)
I asked on my first meeting. I asked what everyone’s jobs were. There were two stay home moms, an account, lawyer, a business man of sorts and even a