MEMPHIS: You got to come back, I ain’t went shopping yet. She have some chicken in a minute. Risa, go on back in there and get on that chicken. You been back there for a half hour and ain’t even got the grease in the pan.
(to STERLING:)
She’ll fry you up some chicken in a minute. She got the rice on.

RISA: I told you ain’t but a half a box of rice.

MEMPHIS: Well, cook that up. That’s better than nothing.

STERLING: You ought to put a sign out there. Say “Gone shopping.” Say, baby, give me a cup of coffee.

MEMPHIS: Go on and give him some coffee and get on back to frying up that chicken before somebody else come in here.

RISA: You want cream?

STERLING: I like it black.
(RISA pours him a coffee.)
Oh, I know you. I know who you are.

RISA: Oh, yeah?

STERLING: You Rodney’s sister. What happened? Where you get them hips from? You used to be a little skinny old thing. You don’t remember me? Sterling Johnson. Used to be with Rodney all the time? You don’t remember me? That’s alright, I remember you.

MEMPHIS: Risa, get on back there and get to work. You ain’t got time to be standing around talking.

STERLING: This an old friend of mine. I knew her before you did. Her name is Clarissa Thomas. She got a brother named Rodney.

MEMPHIS: I don’t care how long you known her. She working now. She can’t be standing around talking. She got things to do.

STERLING: Say, baby, if you get fired I can’t take care of you. I’m trying to find a job myself. I just got out the penitentiary.

RISA: I ain’t worried about getting fired.

STERLING: Where’s Rodney staying? I kinda got out of touch with him.

RISA: He moved to Cleveland. He said he had to get out of Pittsburgh before he kill somebody.

STERLING: Me and him had some fun times together. You remember I used to come up to the house and eat all the time? That was you that was doing all the cooking. Rodney say, “Come on, man, my sister got something to eat.” Then we used to come up there. You used to be skinny.

RISA: I wasn’t all that skinny.

STERLING: I don’t know how skinny you were but you sure grown up now. What’s your phone number?

RISA: I ain’t got none.

STERLING: Well, what’s the address? If I can’t walk I’ll crawl up there.

MEMPHIS: Risa, get on back there and get that chicken fried up so you can go get West his pie before he be over here.

RISA: I’m frying it!
(RISA exits into the back.)