ALEX: Where you shooting?

JANET: The Distillery. Where you shooting? That was a joke.

ALEX: Need a lift?

JANET: I gotta cover for my dad.

ALEX: Til when?

JANET: Another ten minutes? (Beat.) You married?

ALEX: Yeah, no — used to be. Divorced. You married?

JANET: No. Any kids?

ALEX: No. You?

JANET: No. But I want kids. Like, if I met the right guy and got married to him, then yeah, of course, no question, absolutely.

JANET ducks down behind the counter.

ALEX: What kind of guy you looking for, maybe I can keep an eye out for you. (Beat.) Did you eat lunch?

JANET: No. You?

JANET rises with her hair undone, all sexy like, and proceeds to move in front of the counter.

ALEX: No.

JANET: We could eat.

ALEX: We could. What do you want to eat?

JANET: I don’t know. What do you want to eat?

ALEX: Anything’s good.

JANET: Yeah, anything’s good for me too.

ALEX: I’m not feeling anything in particular.

JANET: Me neither.

ALEX: Could do just about anything.

JANET: Yup, me too.

ALEX: You allergic to anything?

JANET: Melons.

ALEX: Melons? Really?

JANET: Yeah. Kinda developed it.

ALEX: Didn’t know you could develop melons — allergies.

JANET: I used to not be allergic to melons, now I am.

ALEX: That’s too bad. I love melons.

Beat.

JANET: Korean or Indian?

ALEX: Who?

JANET: Food. You. Choose. Korean or Indian?

ALEX: Korean.

JANET: Now it’s your turn. Offer me a choice.

ALEX: Oh, okay, uh . . . Christie and Bloor . . . or Yonge and Finch?

JANET: Christie and Bloor. Rice or noodles?

ALEX: Rice. Meat or vegetarian?

JANET: Meat. Pork or beef?

ALEX: Pork. Hot and spicy or extremely hot and spicy?

JANET: Extremely hot and spicy. In a stone bowl or in a stainless steel bowl?

ALEX: Stone bowl. Gamjatang or pork mandu soondubu?

JANET: Gamja Tang. Kachi or Booungee?

ALEX: Han Kuk Kwan.

14. Take over the store

APPA: Offstage. Returning from the back of the store, talking on the phone. No, it’s Christie —

ALEX: I’ll pick you up in ten minutes.

ALEX exits. Bell. JANET returns behind the counter and begins to put on some makeup.

APPA: — then Bathurst, then Spadina, St. George, Bay, Yonge, Sherbourne, then is Castle Frank. Yah, one hundred percent guarantee. Yah, okay. (APPA hangs up the phone.) 아이씨 바보. [Idiot.] (APPA pulls out JANET’s Day-timer and reads from it.) Okay, Janet, lesson number two: “Old is cold, new out of view.” Old can is cold can, put in front. New can is not cold can, put out of view. “Old is cold, new out of view.”

JANET: Appa, where’d you find that?

APPA: Upstair washroom.

JANET: I’ve been looking for that. Give it to me.

APPA: Wait, lesson number three is —

JANET: Appa, I gotta go.

APPA: Wait, we have to finish training, I make list —

JANET: Appa, I’m not taking over the store.

APPA: Janet, you is thirty years old now and still single. You have to understand, now is desperation time for you. Sudden death, overtime, penalty kick shootout. Expiration date is over. Take over store is only choice you having.