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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Joe complains about people who befoul public toilets, imagines
punishing them, then people who play their records too loud, those
with boomboxes, the mess in subway platforms, movie theatres,
panhandlers.
10: Joe tells of going to the <i>Childe Harold</i> <ref> a tavern in
DC</ref> with his friend Mike<ref>[[Mike Fremuth]]</ref>.  They pick
up a young dancer, Rachel, go to Joe's apartment.  Mike gets handsy
with Rachel, starts taking off her clothes despite her complaints,
while Joe plays the piano; Joe breaks it up, sends Rachel home.
13:30: Joe talks about freedom, that we imagine ourselves free but, in
practice, are enslaved by jobs, family, social expectations&hellip;
18:10: Joe tells us about Dave.  He's writing <i>How to identify a
roadkill</i>.  He printed up bumper stickers that look like DC's
license plate but bear the legend, <i>Washington DC: we be a capitol
city</i><ref>in 1986 the real plate bore the legend, <i>Washington DC: a
capitol city</i>.</ref> He works as a courier.
22:30: After work Dave drives to the <i>Goldrush</i>, DC's last strip
club.  The dancers work for money, but Dave never pays; somehow he
gets others to pay for his drinks.  Dave's taking notes for a novel
about it.  He's going to run for mayor.  He comes from a large redneck
family.<ref>perhaps the same as [[Redneck Rounder]]'s</ref>
27:40: Dave shows up at Joe's apartment drunk and tearful: he
says he's cracking up.  Joe tries to comfort him.
30:40: Joe tells of working in a gas station in a desert.  One night a
fellow arrived, driving backwards, who had driven hundreds of miles
that way because his headlights were broken; another fellow arrived
driving on 2 tires, not having had the time to replace its 2 flats.
The 2 men got into a fight.
32:20: The next day a man with a car full of beavers (he bred them)
arrived; most of they were dead.
32:40: 'A while ago' a young couple with a child argue about which is
the better parent, leave without the boy, who wanders off into the
desert without his shoes.
33:30: Joe got a letter from his wife (Kathleen), who used to live
with him at the gas station, had left 12 years ago.  Despite the
decline in business because the new freeway bypassed him, Joe stays,
confident she will return.
34:40: A bus-full of mutes arrived late in the summer.  They passed
notes to each other.
35:40: One November a few years ago a nervous man stayed all day and
night.  He seemed to age 15 years overnight.  Joe called the hospital,
which took him.
37: The area has suffered a number of natural disasters, but all have
bypassed Joe's gas station.  Joe met a man in a sand funnel who looked
like him, had similar stories; the next day Joe wondered if it hadn't
been a dream.<ref>Maybe it was Ray from
[[In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 1) | In The Middle Of Nowhere]]</ref>
38:50: Joe sees a stretch limousine; he resents them, imagines making
their owners hurt, organizing a pie corps to pie them.
44:40: Joe wonders how to define quality of life; we hear the sounds
of writing on a chalkboard.  He remembers a lecture by a sociologist
to his whole high school class about their life goals.
48:20: Joe speculates about the broke song-writer who writes a hit
song; now he has to deal with his success and fame, becomes captive to
living up to his image, a 24/7 job, which can end any moment.
51: Joe speculates about an heir to a great fortune.  He cites the
example of 'Billy Marx' (a made-up name for someone Joe knew), son of
a real-estate magnate who died young from over-work.  Billy is a
'gentleman' who wastes his time; his sister imagines herself an
artist, has affairs with artists, plays at painting but never takes it
seriously.
55:30: Joe says the unemployed poor have all the free time they want;
he observes that they live empty meaningless lives.
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*Having an upset stomach in a public place and discovering a befouled toilet.  Forming a bathroom etiquette hit squad, the Sanitation Corps, to call out and humiliate those who leave messes in bathrooms.   
*Having an upset stomach in a public place and discovering a befouled toilet.  Forming a bathroom etiquette hit squad, the Sanitation Corps, to call out and humiliate those who leave messes in bathrooms.   
*Getting vengeance on inconsiderate neighbors who make noise at night by entering their apartment as a floor waxer and re-wiring their hi-fi with an internal power source and a remote control you control.  Degaussing their cassettes and talking in a loud voice when you meet them in the hallway.  
*Getting vengeance on inconsiderate neighbors who make noise at night by entering their apartment as a floor waxer and re-wiring their hi-fi with an internal power source and a remote control you control.  Degaussing their cassettes and talking in a loud voice when you meet them in the hallway.  
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*Joe the gas station attendant:  A man with broken headlights drives backwards, collides with a man who's been driving with two flat tires for months and only has two wheels.  A car full of beavers.  A couple who fight over who is the best parent drive off and abandon their child.  Joe waits for his wife to return - she left on an errand twelve years ago.  A bus full of people who've taken a vow of silence, with note pads on chains around their necks.  A man arrives, looks at a map, remains sitting in his car for days, shrivels and ages.  Natural catastrophes spare the station.  Joe meets himself after passing through a sand funnel.   
*Joe the gas station attendant:  A man with broken headlights drives backwards, collides with a man who's been driving with two flat tires for months and only has two wheels.  A car full of beavers.  A couple who fight over who is the best parent drive off and abandon their child.  Joe waits for his wife to return - she left on an errand twelve years ago.  A bus full of people who've taken a vow of silence, with note pads on chains around their necks.  A man arrives, looks at a map, remains sitting in his car for days, shrivels and ages.  Natural catastrophes spare the station.  Joe meets himself after passing through a sand funnel.   
*Bringing class war to Limousine passengers: forming a pie corps, reporting their cars stolen, musing their hair, planting roach lice.  *A classroom lecture on life goals, quality of life. The leisure class has time to go insane.  A singer becomes famous, troubled.  A man inherits wealth, finds no comfort.  The tragedy of the unemployed poor.
*Bringing class war to Limousine passengers: forming a pie corps, reporting their cars stolen, musing their hair, planting roach lice.  *A classroom lecture on life goals, quality of life. The leisure class has time to go insane.  A singer becomes famous, troubled.  A man inherits wealth, finds no comfort.  The tragedy of the unemployed poor.
 
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== Music ==  
== Music ==  
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== External links ==
== External links ==
*[https://www.metafilter.com/189810/Little-Boxes#8032965 Transcript of the end of this program] at MetaFilter.
*[https://www.metafilter.com/189810/Little-Boxes#8032965 Transcript of the end of this program] at MetaFilter.
== Footnotes ==


[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
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