Exceptions!

3-Act Play, in 99 words or less

Town Tavern

Jill: “What’s your second favorite thing in life, Jack?”

Jack: “ ... Second? Why not ask my first?”

Jill: “Family-and-friends is everybody’s default-first. I wants your second.”

Jack: “Okay. Family and friends.”

.   .   .

Jill: “Jeez, Jack! I said I don’t want your first!”

Jack: “But, family-and-friends is my second!”

Jill: “ … As in, cross-your-heart-and-hope-to-die, really?”

Jack crosses his heart. “Anticipation is my first.”

.   .   .

Jill: “Anticipation of what?”

Jack: “Anything, everything. A first date. Relieving my bladder.”

Jill: “Why, because Anticipation inevitably beats gratification?”

Jack: “With the exception of relieving my bladder, yes.”

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Author's Note

What's your Second? ...