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''I'm waiting for an epiphany, and I'm waiting for understanding...''

'''Sales''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1983|1983]].

== Synopsis ==

	"Show Me The Way To Go Home" (Al Hirt)

	0:10: Joe lists what he's waiting for: an epiphany,
understanding, purification, exaltation, the second coming, the
revolution, the Spiegel catalogue, a refund from Sears, an
unemployment check, a call from his mother.

	1:10: Joe tells of George who works as a sheet music salesman
for a firm in NYC.  His colleagues are a depressing lot.  George hates
his job.

	4:10: He falls for one of his customers, a woman manager of a
music store in St Louis, Carol.  He begins calling her at home.  She
tells him all about herself.  He begins calling nightly; they grow
closer.  His calls are the only thing they enjoyed.  They decide they
have to meet, but have no opportunity.

	7:20: George's company fails; its employees have mishaps, some
fatal.

	8:50: Carol travels to NYC for a long weekend in mid-October.

	9:10: George chaperones his son's 6th-grade class on a trip to
Restoration Village, a replica of a colonial town.

	10:10: Restoration Village looks like motel cottages.  The
kids aren't interested.  After a trip to the gift shop and lunch, they
go to a nearby pond and skip rocks.  After returning his son to his
(the son's) mother George feels terribly lonely.

	14:30: Carol flies to NYC, 1.5 years after they first began
talking.  She arrives at 3 AM.  George is apprehensive.  She's pretty
and petite, seems overwhelmed.  They try to make love, but fail.  They
spend the day awkwardly.  The next day they decide their weekend is
over; she spends the rest of the weekend with old college chums from
Queens.  She stays in town for another few days - a really long
weekend.  He sees her twice more, once for dinner, another day for
window-shopping.

	23:50: George calls Carol in St Louis; they talk for hours.
She was sick with an undiagnosed endocrine condition the whole time.
George doesn't know whether to believe her.  His calls tailed off.

	24:50: A year later she tells George about her boyfriend, a
trumpet player in a Dixieland band, beating and raping her.  She tells
George she was excited by it.  George is disgusted with her.

25:40: 	"Show Me The Way To Go Home" (Al Hirt)

	26: Joe lists what he's waiting for again.

	26:40: Children singing the song they sang on the way to
Restoration Village.

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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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"I'm waiting" monologue.  A lonely sheet-music salesman based in New York strikes up a connection to a long-distance customer. After a year and a half of phone calls, the customer visits the salesman, and the romance unravels.

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== Music == 
{{Show Me The Way To Go Home (Al Hirt)}} [Intro]
{{Walking (Steve Tibbetts)}} [4:18]

== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "Recorded at Polima Studios in Camarillo and mixed at [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/11/06/getting-it-down/f55d3fdc-ed92-4afa-a0a1-ecac391b7aba/ Sonic Images] in Washington."

[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
[[Category:1983]]
[[Category:Show]][[Category:Show_by_date|19830401]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1983-04-01}}
[[Category:WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]
{{Series|series=WBAI And NPR Playhouse}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}}