A: What are you thinking?
B: Why do you want to know?
A: I didn't have any thoughts of my own so I thought I'd borrow yours
B: Alright then, "Breakfast in bed"
A: What?
B: I was thinking of breakfast in ber...How I've never actually done it..
A: hmmm I think I'll borrow somebody elses
B: Thoughts?  That's cheating you know..
A: How can that be cheating? It's not like we have an exam!
B: [resolutely] It just is.
A: I don't abide by unexplainable laws or first causes.  Anyway that's cheating just as much.
B: Why?
A: Because you're making up an answer and expecting everybody else to accept it just because you say so.
    Next thing you know, you'll be repressing small countries with your tyrannical thumb!
B: That's ridiculous.  Parents do that sort of thing all the time.
A: Exactly! My house was such a dictatorship!
B: I didn't mean that!
A: Then you should speak plainer. You'll never get anywhere if you don't say what you really mean.
B: Atleast I have my own thoughts...I wish you wouldn't exaggerate like that.  Just because I cut a corner
    doesnt' make me a dictator.
A: I'm glad you admit it.
B: Admit what?
A: That you cheat. You cut corners.
B: You cut corners all the time!
A: You did it first
B: I thought you didn't believe in first causes?
A: I don't usually.  But for special occaisions...
B: Now that's cheating.
A: Excuse me?
B: You can't make up your own rules if you're going to break them...
A: Ah! But there has to be an exception to prove the rule!
B: Explain.
A: Nothing is absolute, that's why I don't believe in first causes.
    What we have are rules for the highest probably outcomes - most of the events.
    There's always and outcome that doesn't fit the favoured outcome.  When we find it, we know we've
    found all possible outcomes..so all the rest are true.
B: Oooh! Tasty but unswallowable.  I think there's a flaw in your reasoning.  What if there are two
    outcomes that don't fit?
A: Well, then you'd have to find both.
B: But you just said...
A: [with heat] You always twist my words around!
B: I think you can do that without my help.
A: Anything you can do I can do better!
B: No you can't!
A: Yes I can!
B: No you can't!
A: Yes I can!
B: No you can't
A: Yes! - STOP!  This is too corny.
B: Amen to that!
[both sigh a breath of relief]
B: Why are we here?
A: Didn't they cover that in...
[B gives the daggers]
    alright, alright...
B: I mean, where's whoever we're waiting for?  and that was a pathetic attempt..
A: How should I know?  I'm waiting here with you....
    Wouldn't you hate to be an electron?
B: I wish you were an electron.
A: No, I  don't think so.  Be careful what you wish for.
B: Why? I always speak the truth!
A: This from a confessed cheat.
B: I'm not a cheat, I told you...
A: Who's that?
B: Some one out of our league I'm sure.
A: She's rich!  She'd take us home and feed us!
B: What about "Whoever we're waiting for"?
A: They're not here.  Live in the moment.  They're probably dead.
B: That's not nice
A: I'm not nice, or didn't you notice?
B: Anyway, it's not like we're street bandits who need fostering.  It's not even like we need food.
A: But it's so boring here.
B: They said, He said and She said, something was going to happen.  We have to stay until "Whoever it is" comes.
[pause]
B: [filling up the silence]  You're not very witty are you?
A: And you're pointless
B: It's getting stale
A: I know
B: Maybe we should be cloyingly nice for a change?
A: I don't think that's in my programming.
B: Hmm, no, I think, no, I think...
A: What are you babbling about now?
B: Thought I saw something.
A: That's so you.  Having visions.  You'll be raving soon and I don't have a straight jacket.
B: No! Look!
[meaningless event, two people meet and shake hands]
A: [a little panic] Should we do something!!
B: No, I think this is the real thing.  We've hit the big time.  The Show.  Major League.  We can't interfere.
A: then what's the point of being here?
B: Witnesses?
A:  I don't buy that.  What's going on?
B: He's leaving, she's going in the opposite direction
A: That didn't seem like much of an event
B: They say that's how it is.  Do you know much about Chaos theory? Butterflies and hurricanes?
A: Oh yes!  Are you saying that was butterfly flapping?
B: [smugly] could be..
A: Which one was the butterfly?
B: what?!!
A: The boy or the girl? They can't both be the butterfly...
B: Why not?
A: Because "butterfly" is singular.  If two butterflies are flapping then a totally different event is happening, isn't it?
B:[hurt] it was only an anecdote...Let's follow the girl.
A: Why the girl?
B:  Because she didn't look very happy.  Happy is boring.  Sad...[grandly] Sad is Art!
A: Then let us depart!

A: What type of hurricane comes out of a handshake?
B: I though you didn't like my anecdote?
A: Used by a professional, it's quite fine...well?
B: Maybe that was a secret handshake [excited] maybe he passed her some information, you know,
    really sleekly, like a spy.  Maybe they're plotting...
A: A mass revolt of the commons?  Conspiracy theory is so NOT!
B: That wasn't a sentence
A: I don't care.
B: Typical
A: [glare] Shall we follow her inside?
B: [sarcastic] No, let's just wait out here while she stirs up the masses and starts the revolt.
A: What revolt? There is no revolt!
B: It was, I just meant...Let's go in
    [whisper] maybe they were both the butterfly
A: Nyeh?
B: Maybe she is one wing and he is another and they're in the process of an extended flap.
A:[resentfully[ Maybe. Where' she go?
B: The Study, I think...