KEEP YOUR SPINE STRAIGHT

(2 friends driving in a car chatting seriously…)

Friend #1 (passenger)
”...I mean look at what the human race has done to separate themselves from the rest of the world. It’s like we somehow have gotten the notion that the planet belongs to us and we can just do whatever the fuck we want, right.”

Friend #2 (driver)
”You mean like…that we tear down rain forests or whatever to build something that suits us better?”

Friend #1
”Good example. We seem to have the idea that nature is incapable of doing it’s job so we have to storm in and take over the operation to make it run smoothly.”

Friend #2
”No, see. That doesn’t seem right. It’s not like we want to take it all over. That’s not what I want.”

Friend #1
”Sure that’s not what your consciously thinking when you walk out the door every day. But look at the end result. We as a race think that for us to survive we have to dominate the planet. Look at population growth around the planet. How do you suppose it got the way it has? No other species has gotten so out of whack as we have”

Friend #2
(pause)…”I suppose we’re just smarter that all the other animals”

Friend #1
”You’ve seen those commercials where they want you to send them a dollar a month or whatever, to feed a starving child in some third world country?”

Friend #2
”Sure”

Friend #1
”It’s been proven time and time again that when you have an abundance of food, there is a population boom. Basically, the more food you have, the more, healthier people you have and more people to have babies. Once you have more babies you have more people, once you have more people you need more food…and the cycle goes on until it gets out of hand.”


Friend #2
”What’s your point?”

Friend #1
”My point is…

(The car makes a right turn and the driver…only half paying attention does not see a pedestrian crossing the street)

Friend #1
(frantically) ”Whoa!”

(The car hits the pedestrian. Balloons go flying. The pedestrian happens to be someone dressed up as a clown on their way to do a party. The car comes to a stop and the two get out)

Friend #2
”Oh Shit!
Shit!
Shit!
Fuck!”

Friend #1
”What the fuck do we do?”

Friend #2
”Fuck! Is he alive?

(friend #1 takes a pulse)

Friend #1
”I fucking don’t know, but he’s got no pulse”

Friend #2
”Fuck!”

(friend #2 Looks around…no witnesses. Friend #1 looking over the body)

Friend #2
”Put him in the car.”

Friend #1
”What?”

Friend #2
”Come on”

(Friend #2 starts dragging the body into the car. Friend #1 looks around and then helps get the body in.)
(Cut to McDonalds restaurant)

Friend #2
”I’d like a #1. And….sprite for the drink.

Friend #1
”And I’ll just have a small coke”

(The 2 friends chat for a second, then get their food and walk out of the McDonalds. The camera pans across the restaurant and focuses on the back of someone’s head. Cut to a foreword perspective of the individual and the song “Do You Believe In Magic?” by The Lovin' Spoonful plays. We see the clown dressed up as Ronald McDonald [new clown wig and outfit to match]. He has food in front of him and he’s just smiling and staring out at nothing as the camera slowly zooms back and out. Fade to black.)

Fin.

Notes: This might be tough to do in a McDonalds. Perhaps an alternate scenario can be drawn out where the dead clown is taken to a park and left sitting up on a park bench with balloons and kids running up to it.