Dope

Interior-David's Apt.

David sits at his computer scanning the online dating site like a trained hunter. He sees this tall, seductive but funky looking woman of about 50 and looking very indifferent. Kinda smug. Posing like a hotter version of  Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde” but so very obviously intelligent and also tough looking.. Tall, .great looking body.  David talks to himself out loud “Is she hot or not”?

His 62 year old trained eyes coupled with years of dating experience do not tell him a story. She could be a good one but probably isn’t” She’s most likely not worth the time it would take trying to meet her, he decides. Then, he goes back to look at her again a few hours later and also reads her profile more carefully.. 

“Divorced, self employed, no kids living at home” her profile states. She seems so unaffected, uncaring about whether she gets any attention or not, as if she were forced onto the site.  David mumbles ok to himself. He decides it's worth an email to her after reconsideration.

Interior David's apt-at computer

David “Hi. Check my profile and pictures and see what you think. Maybe we could meet?

Sincerely
David”

Fade Out To Lucy's Apt

“This blows” Lucy tells Deborah , her friend who convinced her to pay and get on match.com, the online meat market.  “ I keep getting emails from babies and idiots “ This online dating is not where I want to be”. She points at her computer and shows Debbie a mountain of emails that have come from men all over who fired off their best lines her.

Lucy-”Look at this guy” she taunts and tells Debbie that they both  should go out for a drink and waste no more time.

Then, as an afterthought Lucy glances at her match.com inbox one more time and sees an email from a David. She checks his profile information.
Lucy-"hey Deb. listen to this"

Lucy -He's, “divorced, still working, no kids at home” lives nearby.
Lucy "I like his pictures. He's interesting"
.

Certainly not an appropriate fit among her cavalry of old boyfriends. She wonders, “can this grey haired somewhat weird looking but maybe slightly sexy guy make her wild libido explode. Like the first boyfriend she had after she left her nice Jewish,  but very boringhusband for.”  

It took Johnny Loren,  an ex- pro football player  to finally give her the animal, insatiable sexual fulfillment she had tried to bury with booze, parties, and many partners

There was a 25 year history of relationships with all kinds of black, Hispanic and every other kind of man who could chew gum and fuck at the same time.

But, all that was over and the pickings were slim. Hard living had wiped out most of her following except for the cadre of loyal friends, men and women who wanted her all the time in some way but who only served to amuse Lucy.

Lucy“ OK Deb,” I’m ready to go out but hang on? I’m gonna write this David guy back.
Lucy-“I have nothing happening tomorrow night and I am curious” she smirked.”

Lucy apt interior-at computer

Lucy “ David. Yes.Maybe we could meet for a drink. Tomorrow night would be good. Here is my number.

Lucy”

Fade To David's

Interior apt

David looks at his match.com emails and sees the Bonnie and Clyde person. It is Lucy who had written back with a phone number;.”

David dials the phone number.

“Hi Lucy. This is David, the guy from match. How are you?

Lucy-Fne. Just dancing around the place waiting for your email.. She was sarcastic..

David-“ Where would you like to meet tomorrow night for a drink’?

Lucy “how about the Ritz bar on Rush st?

David “Fine. I look just like my picture David says?

Lucy“Really? Wow” “That’s exciting” more sarcasm dripping from her.

Lucy- 7.30, OK?You do look like your pictures I hope"?

David “ I do and I’ll be there”

 Interior/Exterior of Bar

David sits outside bar not seeing Lucy. Finally, he goes inside and sits at the bar next to this very Slavic looking, tall and sexy woman with a great face and red hair.

Lucy“Are you David?’ “

David-“Yes” You’re Lucy.”

Lucy-“Uh, yeah, I have been sitting here”.

Lucy-“Are you always in such a daze? You've been sitting outside for 30 minutes"

David-”Not always”

David-“ I just didn’t know you were here already”.Didn't even see you.

Lucy-“Obviously” she retorts but with sweet amusement.

Interior at bar

Sizing each other up

David is swept away by the obvious beauty and salty personality of this new person. He tries to read Lucy but cannot.

Then, she smiles at him and says she would like to sit down in a small, intimate, booth in the back of this empty bar owned by her friend.

Interior of dark bar
 little table

She looked at this tall guy with black glasses and an athletic body and was very attracted. He had this face that she found uniquely beautiful. Her mind danced and skipped at a furious pace. He was no wild crazy stud but he did it for her immediately like no one she had ever met before. She could hardly contain herself as they sat together in the little booth. Being the worlds most impulsive woman she wanted to start kissing him right away.

Lucy “I want an Italian Beef sandwich.” "Will you take me?"

David-“Sure”

Interior-David's car
He makes a few wrong turns going to Al's Beef

Lucy-ever been out before?
David-Yeah
Lucy-Oh. Not difficult to find Als. You've made 3 wrong turns
David-"I can't concentrate. I'm too swept away with you"

Als Beef Stand Interior

David and Lucy exchange their first kiss with beef juice dripping from both their lips at the counter.  It was mutual magic. They stare at each other with hearts throbbing

 Lucy-“I have to go home for just a little while” It’s close by”

David-“Why”

Lucy “ I have to walk my dog”. 

David-“Ok”

Interior Davids Car

As we got back into my car Lucy went wild with passion. All she wanted to do was kiss  as we swerved along the most dangerous area of a Chicago expressway. It was a dream”

David-Where am I going”

Lucy-“ Turn there. No. not there. .There"

Lucy-Jesus. “No sense of direction for a guy”

Interior Car-Near Lucy's condo

David-“ what kind of dog do you have?

 Lucy-“A Doberman 

David- I’m freaked out totally”

Lucy.”You're sweating.. You look white as a ghost".

David-“I have had a terrible fear of dogs in general my whole life and particularly, Pit Bulls, Dobermans, German Shepard's They are dogs I would always cross the street to avoid".

 “Lucy-Well, get past it”

David’ No. I can't”

David“I am never going in your house. Ever,”

Lucy-“OK”

She just seemed to not hear me and kept trying kissing me as I made a few wrong turns getting to her house.

Lucy-“You can stay downstairs in your car while I walk him”

Lucy-“I”ll come back quick.

Lucy”Then we can keep kissing".I love your lips"

Lucy-"You kiss great:"

 Interior Davids Car-

Lucy_OK. I'll be right back"

David- “Ok" I'll be right here"

David" is determined to stay in the car.

Lucy “why don’t you just get out of the car and stand downstairs by the stoop and you can go for a walk with us.  Sitting in your car won’t do anything”

David “that’s fine I said, “I’ll stay right here.

Lucy started to get out of the car. I sat there feeling like a coward. I knew I would have to face the dog sometime because this was probably going to be a romance.

Interior of car-Lucy opening car door

David “wait Lucy”. “Does the Doberman bite?” “

Lucy-“Yes, I have had to pay off several people she bit already.”

David-“Well, will she be OK with me?”

Lucy”I don’t know” she answered in a brutally honest and unwavering style.”

Lucy-“, You pussy”Cmon’  Stay there.She motioned to follow her up to the stoop outside her apartment. Lucy-"Wait for us to come down"

David-“ OK.You got me”

David trips on the curb going toward Lucy's. house
David-sorry-I'm scared"

Lucy-Jesus, “I cant take my eyes off you for a minute can I?”.

David-“Not so smooth, am I?

Lucy-“Your lips are.”

For whatever thinking went through me I decided to defy a lifelong fear and throw caution to the wind. I followed Lucy all the way upstairs into her dark house instead of staying downstairs. I was certain would get mauled by this Doberman  anyway so I figured a head on meeting was the right move.

I was scared beyond words. So scared that the fear left me frozen in large part as I stood in the house waiting for the dog to sink its teeth into me and tear me apart. It did not happen.  The dog only sniffed me. We went downstairs and walked the dog.

Exterior of street walking dog

Lucy-“Sweetie is hi name”

David-"Sweetie is a beautiful dog".

I avoided  bumping into or getting too near Sweetie as we walked

I made it through the walk unscathed. Terrified.though.

Interior-Lucy's apt.

Lucy-“Be good Sweetie. Mommy will be back later.

Lucy's hallway-Walking downstairs back to my car

I breathe a sigh of relief feeling very brave.

David-“I did it. I faced my greatest fear”

Lucy-“Congratulation”  Now,give me back your lips”
David "Can we talk about my bravery?"
Lucy-"your very brave overcoming your fear.  Now give me your lips"

We talked and kissed for hours till our lips were raw.
 Lucy-"I can"t wait to see you again"
David-"Oh. Does that ever make me happy" I'm so excited"
Lucy-"Can you find your way home"?
David" So funny"

David drives home exhilarated

David interior Apt

Phone rings immediately

Lucy-” Hi. It’s Lucy. Want to go to this fund raiser I’m going to tomorrow night?

David-“Yeah”
Lucy-OK. Pick me up at 7.30 will you?
David " Sure"

Interior of Hotel Room

Lucy talks to  someone,and many others

Lucy-“Ya know Dick, that article you wrote was just great. But I don’t see how the U.S government will pull that off “

The conversation with Lucy and her acquaintances who I thought were hitting on her went on and on. Finally. although I was so new and just a guest at this fancy dinner  I got aggravated anyway
I could not stand being ignored by her for so long while she spoke to one person after another.

Seated at table

David “this is so rude. I cannot understand why you are ignoring me?

Lucy-“ You what?

Lucy-“What are you, a baby ?”

Lucy-“You need constant attention?”

Lucy “”Stop whining”? I am doing business.”
David “I am pissed”. “You are being rude to me”

Lucy looked both angry and amused at my temerity. We had our first disagreement but it didn’t last.

Lucy-“You’re a little boy she smiled as we left”

Lucy-“I’ll buy you some toys”
 David-Can we go?"
Lucy-"I've got to be up early tomorrow.Go get the car"

Interior-david's car
Lucy-"I love your lips David
David-"I love yours

Kissing passionately in front of Lucy'apt

David-Hi Lucy. want to come over to my apt tomorrow night?"
Lucy-"Absolutely"
David-"Ok. I'll pick you up at seven.'
Well go to dinner and go back to my place"
Lucy-"Forget the dinner" "Just pick me up at seven and don't get lost".

Interior-Davids Apartment

 She came to my apartment. I started to show her pictures of my three kids, the wallpaper, the view and she just didn’t care. She kissed me again and again. She was indifferent to the rest of my life.. She literally threw me onto my king sized bed. I looked up at her irresistible body and face as she stood there ready to devour me. We made wild love that day and stayed in bed  with breathers only for food and wine,  It was the lovemaking I had dreamed of my whole life but never thought people did it except in the movies or in books. We made love for 5 hours.

Interior Davids Car

Driving Lucy home

Long kiss goodbye.

Lucy-"call me when you get back home"

David" I will"I will"

David Interior Apt

Phone rings as he is about to call Lucy. It's her

Lucy: "Do you want to go to dinner Sat night?"

David-Sure?

Lucy-“You can meet some of my friends. There’s a whole bunch going out to Jim's Tap on Clark St."
 David-“I’m in”

Fade to car on way to restaurant

David- "Where is this place" (as they ride around?

Lucy-“I think it’s up a few blocks ahead.

Lucy-turn left there she points

David “OK”

Lucy-“you just turned right”

David-“I thought you said turn right”

Lucy  “Oh. I remember” You get confused when you're driving:”

Lucy “There it is.”

Jim's restaurant sign flashes”

Lucy “Why don’t you drop me off and find a place to park

David drives around trying to find a parking space.  He hits the curve hard.

Interior Jim's restaurant

Lucy makes introductions of her friends to David. She hits the bar and has a few drinks. She starts talking slurry. She seems to be getting hi quickly.

Lucy-David, this is my friend Laura”

Laura- “So David, where did you graduate college?”

David-I didn’t finish college

Laura- Oh, What do you do?

David-“I’m unemployed.”

Laura-Looking strangely at David. Lucy peering in. Well, I thought if you were with Lucy you…. David cuts her off

David-“Do you need a job to date Lucy?”

David“I’m getting on the job training.”

Lucy intervenes

Lucy-“He’s not the brightest bulb Laura, but he’s great in bed.”

“Must be” snorts Laura

David-How about you in bed Laura/ Any good"?
Laura-"ver good David'. Nice meeting you"
Laura glances at Lucy.

Interior Davids Car with Lucy

Lucy explodes.

Lucy-“Nice”.

David-Nice?

Lucy-Did you have to act like an asshole?

David-Asshole”?

Lucy-Yeah. “Why would you insult my friend like that?

David- Sorry"“I’m an idiot trying to cover up insecurities.”

 Interior Davids Car

Lucy  tipsy and slurring words

Lucy-“I don’t think you and I are going to work.”

David- “Not if you can’t stop drinking we won’t.”

Lucy-“That has nothing to do with you being rude to my friends’

David-“I wasn’t”

Lucy-“how about Laura”?
David-"sorry"

David-"Lets just go to my place"

Lucy-“Take me home.” You're nasty”

David-“Stop it.”

Lucy-“Fuck you”

David-“Ok I’m taking you home.”

Lucy-“Try not to get lost. You do drive like a dope”.”

David “I drive fine.”

David gets lost quickly again

Lucy-“You were supposed to turn there.”

David-“How would you know?”

Lucy-“I’m drunk but not unconscious”

Lucy"“Maybe you could get a package deal-2 for 1

Lucy-“Driving school and a school for social graces.”

Exterior

In front of Lucy’s house in car

Lucy starts to jump out quickly.

David-“should I help you up the stairs”?

Lucy-“Don’t bother. You’d only get lost getting back to your car.”

Lucy-“Were done.”

Reunited after a day apart by phone call from David.

On the phone with Lucy
David-"I'm sorry about what happened with your friend Laura"
Lucy-"It's ok. Just forget it"
Lucy-"Just try to act polite"
david-"I will"

Lucy then asked me if I wanted to go to this guy Paul Scott’s summer house over the weekend. She promised he had a big, beautiful house on the beach in Indiana and there would be a bunch of other people who would all go there and have a good time eating, drinking, and relaxing. The plan was that I would drive to Lucy's house and park my car. We would meet her sister Linda at Lucy's house at 11.30 am on  Friday and we would take a nice leisurely drive of about an hour and a half to go to Paul’s house.  I was excited. Lucy promised a nice easy trip. No hassles,  

Lucy-We'll have a lfun weekend.  It was truly the nightmare weekend from hell weekend..

 Lucys apt
Lucy- “you were supposed to be here at 11.30”

David-  I had to park way far away“So. Its only 12 o clock."Big deal"

 Lucy-You don't do what you say. "
David- "Is 30 minutes with nothing to do a disaster?

Lucy-“Yes”

David-“I’m sorry”

Lucy-“Gee, sorry again” sorry sorry "

Lucy- “what is there that you ever do that you’re not sorry about?”

We all get in the car. I offer to drive but Lucy decides she will drive because I do not drive well enough to suit her. I get into the back seat and her sister Linda, one of of America’s miserable people, sits in the front. I might as well have been a prisoner who had raped a child in the company of two sadistic guards who hated me and could barely stand to have me in the car. Their anger and contempt toward me was so intense.

They talked and talked to each other only. The closest Lucy got to talking to me or even paying attention to me was glancing in her rear view mirror once every twenty five minutes to see if I hopefully had fallen out of the car.

Linda, who hardly knew me, was in her evil heaven with me in solitary confinement. She quietly delighted that I was being totally ignored by Lucy and easily took the queue. The two sisters chatted about everything you could imagine as we drove along the hwy. I tried to be part of the conversation many times. No. No one cared bout anything I had to say at all. I couldn’t believe that my treatment could be so rotten. Lucy and I were falling apart in chunks and these was just a few days  after we had talked of moving in together, get married, and stay in bed forever needing no one else in the world.

Now, I had been reduced to an unwanted passenger in route to a weekend of fun which Lucy seemed not even want me to be part of.

Riding-Interior of Car

Lucy-"There’s this real good lunch place called Gigios that Paul told me us to eat at."

Linda-Fine.

Lucy-“they have great seafood”

David-“I know of this fifties type diner that is great” It’s called Penny's.

Lucy-“we already know where we're going”

 Lucy"didn’t you hear what I just said?”

David- (Pissed) I want to go to Pennys”

" It will be my highlight of this fine ride"

Lucy-“lets go there Linda. He’s a baby but maybe the place is ok and he'll shut up”

Linda-"Fine. We find Penny's diner

 Lucy-“David, we’ll get out in front and you park the car”

David ” Nice of you to give me something to do.

Lucy- “see if you can avoid hitting another car. Also, see if you can get back to this crappy little joint without getting lost. I don’t want to have to go find you.”

David-“the place is only across from the parking lot

 Lucy-“that’s far enough to confuse you”

Interior Penny's Diner

The three of us sitting at a table

Waitress-“what will you guys have?”

Everyone orders but I start to chat up the waitress thinking being cute will get me some redemption from the mental abuse being inflicted by Lucy’s silence and mean sarcasm. I showed the waitress a little hand sanitizer that I had been selling many of. I sell advertising specialties

David- to waitress-“stick out your hand’

She does and I squirt the sanitizer spray into the waitress’s hands. Lucy rolls her eyes as her sister just looks  showing a disgusted  expression.

Waitress-“that’s really cute”

David-“show it to your boss. My number is on it” They are real hot"

Waitress “ok”

waitress walks away to other customers

Lucy-Did you have to do that? “You know how uncomfortable you  made me feel when you tried to sell your stupid trinkets around me.” Why are you so dopey”?

David-“I hustle trinkets good- it's my living"

Lucy-“Really good living. That’s why you said you have no money and no job”

David-“I’m trying”

Lucy- “like you tried to pick us up at 11.30 and showed up at 12. or try to talk to my friends or try to drive right”. Now, you're embarrassing me by hustling your crap"

David- “So, whats the big deal?”

Lucy-“The big deal was that you ruined this whole weekend already”

David- “over being late half an hour”?

Lucy-it’s cumulative. “You are really fucked up

Lucy ” Seems your dick is your only asset”

David-“wow”

Lucy-“Lets go or do you want to try to sell something to another store as long as were here

David-“Funny”

Lucy to Linda- “It’s sad”
David "Sorry"

We pull up to Paul's beautiful summer home. I am still getting ignored as I walk around this massive house and check it out. Lucy announces she will be going to the beach with her sister

I say “I think I’ll just stay in and watch TV”

Lucy –“that is a great idea”. Why don’t you  just take a nap until tomorrow morning?

I decide to follow Lucy and Linda down to the beach about a half hour later.

 David Interior-TV room
David to stranger in room" I’m feeling like I need strong medication for post traumatic stress disorder".

Exterior-Beach

We all sat on beach chairs together. Naturally, no one is talking to me. The sisters just chat away as if I was not there. I start to get bored after about an hour on the beach.

 I get up and get ready to go back to the summer house.

David- “I'm going in”

Lucy-“Can you find your way there she spits back, tuned into her automatic sarcasm mode”

David- “No. I don’t think so. Want come back with me? Maybe we can get a quickie in before anyone even notices”

Lucy- "Funny. Why don’t you go in the bathroom and beat off.

I go back to the house and watch TV again alone

Dinner
Interior Pauls house-at table

David- to all at table-". "Lucy is mad at me."

David-"For what?" Because I was half an hour late picking up her and her Linda up? And a few other mistakes I made that she is unhappy about"
Lucy-"Too bad"

We all have  dinner made by Paul Scott and his wife.

We sit around and then the whole group gets tired at about 11 pm.

Lucy and I have a cute room with individual beds downstairs by the kitchen.

Interior- Guest bedroom

I sneakily swallow down a big Viagra as we get ready for bed. I feel the great big hard on arriving as I lay down in Lucy's bed. I figure redemption is still possible. Also, despite everything Lucy is the hottest, sexiest woman on earth. I figure I will sweep her away with passion like usual and then she will sweeten up. I crawl into her bed and push my rod against her rear end as I wrap my arms around her and pull her towards me.

Lucy- “Not here she shrieks”

David-“Why not, No one is around”

Lucy-“They’ll hear Just go to sleep. I m not in the mood anyway”

David-“Why not? You always are. I think to myself that this is really going to be a grim, miserable situation weekend"”.

Lucy-“I’m tired”.

I go into my own bed and hope that tomorrow will be better.

David-“This problem with us is only about me being late picking you up?”

Lucy-“No”. “It’s about my poor choices in men And your general style . Goodnight”.
David-"it's  only been 3 weeks since we met
Lucy-"With you, that's plenty"

We both lay in our separate beds. First I quietly wack off  so she  won't hear me. After all, I have this big Viagra dick with no Lucy to use it on. I get away with it without her hearing.

Exterior kitchen

At about 3am I wake up. I’m starving and I am naked also. I walk over to the kitchen and open the refrigerator door. I look at a great selection of cookies and deli meats. Perfect. I am finally happy but only for a second. Next to me at the refrigerator  Lucy appears.

Lucy-“What re you doing?”

David-“Getting something to eat”

Lucy-“You’re naked and standing at a strangers refrigerator in the middle of the night" she says incredulously

David”Yeah, I say," not thinking very much of it.

Lucy-“people don’t do that” "Who cares?"

David-“I do”

Lucy—“your obviously not people I am realizing that quickly”.

David-“I’m hungry I say grabbing at some salami.” Sorry.

Lucy-“Get your hands off that food and go back to bed you idiot. She is raging mad. We are nose to nose standing at that refrigerator.”

She is not joking in her anger at me. I am still hungry not thinking that anyone would care about me eating some food while the whole house is upstairs and asleep. Being naked never occurred to me.

Lucy “Get back in bed she snaps and glares at me like I was a housebroken dog who had just shit on the floor.

I go back to bed.

Ride Back to Chicago next day

Interior car

David-“Lucy, can we just forget about the Paul Scott disaster?”

Linda-“Why should she forget about you standing in front of the refrigerator naked? What an embarrassment”

David-“That’s what you really think Lucy?

Lucy-What should she think?

David-You can think about minding

your own business Linda. “It’s me and Lucy with the problem and it’s none of your business”

Lucy-“It’s my sister therefore it’s my business”

Lucy-“David, none of your pouting, petulance, or being the victim or anything else is going to change anything. We are obviously through”.

David-“Fine”

Exterior-Around Lucy's crowded streets near her house
 David's car is lost

David-“I can’t remember where my car is parked

Lucy- Gee. What a surprise? Why don’t you just jump out here and start walking around and around? "You'll find it".

David-“Funny”.

Cruising around until David’s car is found.

David-Leaving car-getting in his own car

David-“Do you want me to call you later?”

Lucy-“Never”
David "that's what I thought"

Lucy drives away

David- interior car
Gets home-interior apt.

David-Dialing Lucy- depressed and beaten

David-“Hi”

Lucy "What?

David-“Can we talk?

Lucy-“No.Give up. we're done" ?”

David-“I’ll never give up”

David-“Can I come over?

Lucy-No, David. Can’t you hear me? No wonder you said always got your way. You just don’t take no. I’d like to yell at your mother”.

David- “You wouldn’t be talking this much if you weren’t feeling a little something for me”.

Lucy-"not true"

Lucy-OK. come over for a few minutes"

David breathes easier. Lucy is relenting

Interior Lucy's apt.

 “I’m working on a writing project”. “I'm leaving tomorrow for 2 weeks.

David-“Oh No”

David “You didn’t tell me”
Lucy-"I did"

Lucy-You don’t pay attention to much of anything I've noticed”

David-I'll drive you to the airport
Lucy-"You'll get lost"
David "I won't" don't worry"
Lucy-"Be here at 8 am"
David-"Absolutely"


Exterior airport-Sweet to David driving there

Lucy-"I am very hard on people I really like"
Its not all you"

Lucy-Kisses David passionately

Lucy -See you in a while.
Lucy" I'll miss you dopey"

David-"Beaming with joy"
 I'll be waiting for you"
 David  "We good?
Lucy-"We're good"