Wren and Maria sit down together.
WREN: So, did you talk to housing?
MARIA: Yeah, and I brought the president of the Queer Alliance for back-up. We got it fixed.
WREN: Sweet, so they’re letting you switch into my room?
MARIA: Uh, actually… the school let me out of my contract and my grandma’s going to help me pay for an off-campus place. After this mess, I don’t really want to deal with dorm life, even if it was with you.
WREN: Great, now who I am going to –
Sam enters and interrupts.
SAM: MY ROOMATE. HAS NEVER. READ A BOOK.
WREN: Whoa, do you mean she, like, never read a non-school book?
SAM: I, I don’t know, I kind of blacked out when she started talking about why she thinks “movies are better anywayâ€.
I also love Sam. We are so totally siblings with that comment. I have the same wide eyed stare when people tell me they don’t read books. All I can do is sit there and go “What do you DO with your time?!”
I would (and I am so pacifistic in the extreme) PUNCH someone if they told me they didn’t read books. But it would be like an Elaine Benes style punch like “Get OUTTA here.” and well, I would not punch them at all. But such is my desire to defend books that I would mutter darkly at that person as I beat a hasty retreat. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS!
I love Sam.
I also love Sam. We are so totally siblings with that comment. I have the same wide eyed stare when people tell me they don’t read books. All I can do is sit there and go “What do you DO with your time?!”
I know Sam’s frustration. I also have had a roommate claim that he has never read a book.
He wants to study to become a doctor…
Agreed on the love for Sam, AND on the love for books! My shelves are full of fiction and only fiction.
I would (and I am so pacifistic in the extreme) PUNCH someone if they told me they didn’t read books. But it would be like an Elaine Benes style punch like “Get OUTTA here.” and well, I would not punch them at all. But such is my desire to defend books that I would mutter darkly at that person as I beat a hasty retreat. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS!