Expectations

Setting: Hot tub in Vail CO resort located in a valley surrounded by thick green trees up the mountain walls. There are champagne glasses filled to the top.
Characters:
Tom - man in his early 30's
Sandy - woman in her late 20's

Sandy: Riiiichhhh Huuuuuusbaaaaaand. I just love how that sounds. I am so excited. I am going to quit that stupid job at the factory, join a spa and get massages everyday after lunch with the girls. Cheers!
Tom: Aw, houuuuuuuussssssssse wiiiiffffeeee.
Sandy: Huh?
Tom: I am so excited to wake up to breakfast in bed, clean clothes, and dinner every night. Cheers!
Sandy: House Wife??? You think I am going to be a house wife? I don't even know how to cook!
Tom: Well I guess I'll have to keep mom. Mom, come join us.
Sandy: What?? You want your mom to live with us?
Mom: Yes dear. Here is your grilled cheese sandwich, just the way you like it.
Tom: Get in mom. There’s a spot between Sandy and I so you can feed me.
Sandy: This is crazy.
Mom: Sorry, Sandy. Can you move over there. You are crowding us.

Waste of Time

Setting: ivy colored walled office with antiques. Big block with milliseconds hand on the wall.
Characters:
Dr Susan Smith - Doctor of meta physics focusing on time
Linda Jones - Assistant to Dr Smith

Dr Susan Smith: Linda, please bring me my work files on The Existential Treaties on The scarcity of time.
Linda: Of course Dr Smith.
Linda shuffles around the paper work and finally finds a folder
Linda: They are right here.
Dr Smith: Linda, you took at least 30 seconds to hand them to me. That’s a waste of the precious time we have on this planet.
Linda: Dr Smith, I am sorry. I am just a grad student, and I am not as good as you are yet at time management. Please forgive me.
Dr Smith: I think you don't understand my work here. You don't respect it.
Linda: Oh?
Dr Smith: Time is limited. Its scarce. When you take time wastefully to hand me something, that’s both our time that you are wasting Linda.
Linda: I apologize. I won’t waste your time anymore. I actually have to go because my experimental drug to cure cancer is getting tested on a patient today.
Dr Smith: Its ok. I’ll forgive you if you will sweep the 150 ivory stairs on your way down.