WORKED BY JEFFREY LO
RHEA, a Michigan girl who recently moved to San Francisco is on the phone with her mother, BARBARA.
BARBARA: How is my baby doing?
RHEA: Fine mom.
BARBARA: I’m just so relieved you found a place to live over there. I hear it is just SO HARD to find a place to live there and especially to AFFORD there. Nothing like good old Lansing…
RHEA: Right, mom…
BARBARA: I remember you saying you wanted to go to San Francisco because you wanted to be somewhere with culture, and interesting people and interesting things to do and I understood that but I was just scared. Do you remember saying all that?
RHEA: Yeah, mom.
BARBARA: Do you remember how scared I was for my baby?
RHEA: I do mom.
BARBARA: But now you’re there and you ge to do all that funky dory stuff! All that fun museums and fun bars and fun whatevers. Right?
RHEA: Maybe someday mom.
BARBARA: Maybe someday?
RHEA: Maybe someday mom.
BARBARA: Well… what the hell did you do all day?
RHEA: I worked.
BARBARA: What about yesterday?
RHEA: I worked.
BARBARA: And before that?
RHEA: I worked. And after that. I will work. In order to live here in this place with all the things to do… all I can afford to do is work.
BARBARA: Wow… Well why don’t you just –
RHEA: Sorry mom, can’t talk. I gotta go back to work.
RHEA hangs up the phone.
END OF PLAY.