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Friday (1/2/09) 10:34am - ... wherein Peter writes a sketch for Friday Sketch War.

This week's Friday Sketch War theme was "Resolutions".  Here's my entry:

               Friday Sketch War
               Resolutions Edition
               "Mount Waxahachie"

               FADE IN:



               INT. SNOWY FOREST CLEARING - DAY

               JERRY (20s) sits in a quiet spot in the woods on a cold
               winter day.  He holds a hamburger wrapped in wax paper.

               RILEY (50s) enters, exhausted and weighed down with hiking
               equipment.  Riley sits and takes in the view.

                                   JERRY
                         Cold for climbing, man.

                                   RILEY
                         Yeah.  Every year, January first,
                         Theresa -- my wife -- she'd resolve
                         to climb Mount Waxahachie.  But...

               He shrugs.

                                   RILEY
                         I guess I did this for her.

                                   JERRY
                         Nice.

                                   RILEY
                         She always said it was the most
                         secluded place in the world, even
                         though she'd never seen it.

                                   JERRY
                         Oh.  Yeah.

                                   RILEY
                         So you must have climbed up the
                         southeast approach?

                                   JERRY
                         I work at the gift shop.  They put
                         in a pretty major road last year.

               O. S. a car RUMBLES BY, HONKING while its passengers HOOT and
               HOLLER.

                                   PASSENGER (O.S.)
                         Party on Mount Waxahachie!

               Jerry gets up to leave.

                                   JERRY
                         Customers.

               He hands Riley the hamburger.

                                   JERRY
                         My Waxa-burger is still warm.

               He exits.

               Riley peevishly tosses away the burger.

               At the same time, another car RUMBLES PAST O.S.

                                   PASSENGER #2 (O.S.)
                         Don't litter, old dude!

               Riley gets up and trudges back the way he came.

                                                              FADE OUT.

(This is also posted on at the Sketchwar site.)

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