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Thursday, February 12, 2004

Movie in Mind #2: Five Easy Pieces





Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) is aggravated and exasperated by meaningless rules. The scene is in a diner. A live-by-the-rules waitress (Lorna Thayer) stubbornly refuses to serve him a plain omelette (with tomatoes instead of potatoes), a cup of coffee and a side order of wheat toast, because she dryly explains: "No substitutions."



Bobby Dupea

I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee, and wheat toast.



Waitress

(She points to the menu) No substitutions.



Bobby Dupea

What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes?



Waitress

Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two -- a plain omelette. It comes with cottage fries and rolls.



Bobby Dupea

Yeah, I know what it comes with. But it's not what I want.



Waitress

Well, I'll come back when you make up your mind.



Bobby Dupea

Wait a minute. I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee, and a side order of wheat toast.



Waitress

I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast...an English muffin or a coffee roll.



Bobby Dupea

What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast? You make sandwiches, don't you?



Waitress

Would you like to talk to the manager?



Bobby Dupea

...You've got bread and a toaster of some kind?



Waitress

I don't make the rules.



Bobby Dupea

OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.



Waitress

A number two, chicken sal san, hold the butter, the lettuce and the mayonnaise. And a cup of coffee. Anything else?



Bobby Dupea

Yeah. Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.



Waitress

(Spitefully) You want me to hold the chicken, huh?



Bobby Dupea

I want you to hold it between your knees.


[0] This is Where You Bite the Sandwich




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