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Screenwriting

Susurrus Semantics

The roofer was supposed to come today between 10:00 and 12:00. He didn't show up so my husband called the office and this woman answered the phone. She said, "He's already been out there and no one was home." My husband was aggitated cause there were four people here all morning, and no one came to our house. He said, "Baloney, baloney, baloney! There were four people here all morning." So later he talks to the guy who was supposed to come, and the guy told him he left a message on my husband's cell phone (which was in his car so we didn't hear it ring) that he couldn't come cause he didn't have his truck today.

The guy also told my husband that the woman in the office told him that my husband cussed her out. So "baloney" is a cuss word?

Who was right? This is a riddle - it really happened, this is what everyone really said. If you were writing a script of this who would be the protagonist, who is the bad guy, and who is the dumb ass?
  

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I almost forgot. While all this was happening the susurrusing of the almost bare (from the hurricane winds) trees made a pathetically deafening roar that may have obscurred everyone's hearing.

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  • While all this was happening the susurrusing of the almost bare (from the hurricane winds) trees made a pathetically deafening roar that may have obscurred everyone's hearing.
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I almost forgot. While all this was happening the susurrusing of the almost bare (from the hurricane winds) trees made a pathetically deafening roar that may have obscurred everyone's hearing.
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[nq:1]I almost forgot. While all this was happening the susurrusing of the almost bare (from the hurricane winds) trees made a pathetically deafening roar that may have obscurred everyone's hearing.[/nq]
The crucial detail!

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. - Mel Brooks
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Either the woman in the office told your husband a bald-faced lie, or she was honestly mistaken about whether the roofer had come to your home or not. It could be that the roofer told her that he tried to reach your husband and got no answer, which she could have interpreted as "nobody was home."
Either way, I've noticed that some of these type of people don't have the same sense of "how thing
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[nq:1]The roofer was supposed to come today between 10:00 and 12:00. He didn't show up so my husband called the ... a script of this who would be the protagonist, who is the bad guy, and who is the dumb ***?[/nq]
In ***tic-speak, the Woman at the Office would be the contagonist - the distraction from the real dramatic conflict. Your husband is the protagonist (making you the love intere
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Next thriller screenplay: "The Roofer"
See, the "roofer" was just toying with you. Wants to drive you nuts. So that when he finally arrives, your death will be scarier, and you will scream louder.
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[nq:1]Either way, I've noticed that some of these type of people don't have the same sense of "how things work" as people do in corporate America.[/nq]Huh? In "Corporate America" they get no-bid contracts and don't do any actual work at all. And speaking of which... I've gone to Charlottesville twice now, both times I was supposed to change over our Nortel switch to accept a PRI (Smart T1) circuit

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