There Should Be No Value Judgement Regarding Where I Leave My Clothes At Night

I'm behind on my blog posts right now because I've been working on other things. This leaves me no choice (thanks to February (28)) but to "synergize" and post snippets of the stuff I'm currently working on.

(This type of thing that will eventually end up on the Blither Productions blog, as soon as I get around to launching it. Let me know what you think.)

INT. SHANE AND DIANE'S BEDROOM: NIGHT

Shane and Diane in bed. The lamps on their nightstands are on. She's reading a magazine, he has just put his down.

SHANE
Look, all I do is disrobe. The best place to disrobe is right next to the bed. I shouldn't have to walk naked across all yonder just so my clothes can spend the night in the hamper.

DIANE
Okay.

SHANE
You are a clothes changer, not a disrober. You change your clothes right in front of the hamper. So there should be no value judgement regarding where I leave my clothes at night. The only reason you don't agree with me is because you don't have to walk across the bedroom naked.

DIANE
The only reason I don't agree with you is because you never pick up your clothes in the morning.

SHANE
Aha! But see, that is not Nighttime Shane's fault.

DIANE
Oh yeah? Which Shane's fault is it?

SHANE
It is Morning Shane's fault. The guy who's still half-asleep and has to pee. The guy who, once he walks to the loo, will never have a reason to come back to this side of the bed for the rest of the day.

DIANE
One reason to come back would be to pick up the clothes you left there the night before.

SHANE
Exactly. There's nothing I can see that's wrong over here, and there's nothing over here that I need for my day. So I have to remember that I have some altruistic thing to do on this side of the bed.

Diane finally pulls away from her magazine and looks at Shane.

DIANE
So it's heroic when you actually manage to pick up your clothes.

SHANE
It's not an easy thing to remember.

Back to her magazine...

DIANE
You know, there are about twenty different ways you could fix that process and solve your problem.

SHANE
Yes. But my favorite way is to let you pick them up.

Diane gives a look, makes a show of turning the page, and goes back to her mag.