Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Week 21, Day 143 - “Extraction Number Two”

“Extraction Number Two”
Written by Joe Janes
6/10/09
143 of 365

CAST:
Dr. Richards, 20s
Joe, 40s

(Lights up on a dentist’s office. Dr. Richards finishes looking in Joe’s mouth.)

JOE
What’s the verdict, Dr. Richards?

DR. RICHARDS
Well, Joe. Tooth Number Two is definitely fractured. Half of the tooth is dead. We have three options. We do a root canal and put a crown on it, which will be about fifteen hundred dollars and no guarantee that it will work.

JOE
Yikes.

DR. RICHARDS
Option two is we do an extraction for about two hundred dollars.

JOE
Is option three the affordable one?

DR. RICHARDS
It is.

JOE
I’ll take that one.

(Dr. Richards pulls a hammer out of her lab coat.)

DR. RICHARDS
Meet me in the alley. Bring ten bucks.

(Blackout)