Gender Differences-Personal Narrative

CHARACTERS
JENNA
ROBERT
GAS STATION ATTENDANT
CHAPLIN

[JENNA has been driving all night after a fight with her husband. JENNA leaves a truck stop with a cup of coffee and although it is not her nature to pick up hitch hikers, at this point she figures what is the worst that can happen? Death? Then so be it.]
ROBERT: Hey, can I get a ride?
JENNA: Why not? Where are you headed?
ROBERT: Oklahoma.
JENNA: Okay.
ROBERT: [Getting in car] Where are you from? Where are you going?
JENNA: Jackson, Wyoming and Jackson, Wyoming
ROBERT: Are you married?
JENNA: Yes
ROBERT: How far can you take me?
JENNA: Twin Falls, Idaho.
ROBERT: You have small breasts. Do you talk to spirits?
JENNA: What? What do you mean?
ROBERT: My girlfriend was …show more content…
ROBERT: Oklahoma.
JENNA: Do you work there?
ROBERT: [Looking down at his lap] No, I blew up the oil truck I was driving because I was angry. I got fired. I have no job and no money. I started my house on fire and burnt everything up. My girlfriend got mad at me because all her bras were burned. I am hoping she will forgive me when I get back to Oklahoma. When I get angry, I just snap.
JENNA: [Tongue in cheek] Are you angry now?
ROBERT: No, I feel better. Are you angry now?
JENNA: No, just out for a drive. I love going for drives.
ROBERT: Would your husband let me come home with you? You are so pretty.
JENNA: Hmmm, sorry but I don’t think so. Oh, my gosh!
ROBERT: What?
JENNA: My radiator is overheating!
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ROBERT: Are you sure I can’t kiss you?
JENNA: Don’t touch my leg again!
ROBERT: Ok.
JENNA: Stay in the car and I will go see if someone can help me. Or, maybe someone here can give you a ride directly to Oklahoma.
ROBERT: No! I want to go with you!
JENNA: Whatever, I will be right back.
[JENNA walks into the gas station. Suddenly there is commotion in the parking lot.]
GAS STATION ATTENDANT: [Yelling at Jenna] Son of a bitch! If that antifreeze takes the paint off of the cars it sprayed on, your ass is grass! Your husband opened the radiator cap when it was hot! What in the hell is wrong with him? Stupid people!
JENNA: He is not my husband and I am sorry. Can you look at my car and tell me why it is overheating?
GAS STATION ATTENDANT: If it will get you the hell out of here!
[JENNA waits nervously, hoping Robert will find a new ride and that there is nothing to serious wrong with her car.]
GAS STATION ATTENDANT: You need a new hose clamp, I have one. Twenty bucks.
JENNA: Really? For a clamp? A little piece of metal?
GAS STATION ATTENDANT: Take it or leave it.
JENNA: I won’t have enough gas money to make it home!
ROBERT: I can get you money for