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Houston, We Have A Staircase
(October 22, 2002)
"That girl of yours is a carnival ride."
"Do we have to go down all these stairs?"
(Meg Ryan, Addicted to Love)
I stopped partway down the stairs, turned and looked up at Laura, who hadn't yet left the landing. I waited, hiking my shoulder bag higher. It wasn't heavy, just contained the essentials-- the script with all Hub's lighting cues in it, a flashlight, and jellybeans.
I like jellybeans.
"Yes," I answered. "Yes, we have to go down all the stairs." Or, I thought, I could call Gene on the cell and tell him that I can't run lights for the show tonight because I'm across the street in the parking garage and apparently I have to live here now.
"But I have issues going down stairs," she...uh...explained.
"You want I should carry you?"
"No, ha ha!"
"Okay, but you know what? Next time we have a conversation in which you try to tell me how 'low maintenance' you are, I get to laugh my ass off."
(Could we be cuter, though?)
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