Stamping Around

Playwriting
PROMPT: character has an object of desire, solicits from another character. Use the template
-more bare bones... i don't know if i like this one as much. it was me venting mostly, i missed a deadline that week.

Stamping Around
(NEIL is seen rummaging around a desk, while holding an envelope. He is talking to himself)

NEIL
Oh, come on. There has to be one here somewhere…

(TAD enters)

TAD
Why are you rummaging around my desk?

NEIL
Thank god you’re here! I need a stamp. Right now.

TAD
I’m so glad you asked politely

NEIL
Please help me find a stamp! This was supposed to be postmarked yesterday and if I don’t mail it I’m going to miss out on that apprenticeship. The fate of my career is on the line here. All I am asking you is to help me find a god-damn stamp!

TAD
I don’t think I have any.

NEIL
Who goes around not having any stamps?

TAD
Us apparently. Plus, if you missed the deadline already, what’s the point? There’s always next year.

NEIL
NO! There is not always next year! I’ve missed this three years running. I’ll be damned if I miss it again. So if you could stop talking and help me locate a stamp?

TAD
You need to calm down. Why didn’t you just go to the post office and have them put postage on it? Wouldn’t that have been better?

NEIL
I tried that already! I don’t have any cash on me and the card machine was broken so I came back there thinking it would be easier to find a stamp and take it… do not look at me like I’m stupid.

TAD
You are. You couldn’t have gone to the ATM, gotten some money and saved yourself the trouble? Were you thinking at all?

NEIL
Do you ever think? I don’t have any money in my account right now. I can’t very well take money out that isn’t there. This is useless. I am wasting time arguing with you. The post office is going to close and I have to get all the way there and I still don’t have a stamp!

TAD
And you are going through every single thing I’ve left on my desk. Invading my space for a freaking stamp that you could have bought with change you found in the couch

NEIL
AH! The couch!

(LOUIS enters, holding up a sheet of stamps)

LOUIS
Who was yelling about a stamp?

NEIL
STAMPS!
TAD
I guess they weren’t that hard to find, were they?

LOUIS
Why do you need a stamp so bad anyway?

NEIL
I have this application that was supposed to be postmarked by yes…what?

LOUIS
The post office is closed.

NEIL
WHAT?!

LOUIS
It’s six o’clock already.

NEIL
No, no, its only five, I have an hour, see?

LOUIS
Did you set your watch after the time change?

TAD
HAH! You’ve been going around an hour behind everyone else! That doesn’t surprise me in the least….