Fiche 78, exercice 4 (page 165)
- Norman: If that's the way it is. Don't talk to me. I don't care. I
don't know why you're all being so unsociable. All right, I had a few
drinks last night. What's wrong with that? Hasn't anyone round this
table ever had a drink then? ↑ Come on, I don't believe it. You've had
a drink, haven't you, Reg? ↑ Ha-ha! ↑ Caught you. You spoke.
Reg: No, I didn't.
Norman: Ha-ha! Three to me. I've won. Is it too much to ask for something
to eat? ↑ (No response.) It's too much to ask for something to eat.
(He gets up and moves down the table and takes the cereal bowl that
Sarah isn't using.) May I borrow your bowl? ↑ That's awfully nice of
you. And your spoon? ↑ Thank you. Now then, what shall I have? (Examining
cereal packets.) Puffa Puffa rice. Ah-ah… (He returns to the top
of the table, sits and fills his bowl.) No Sunday papers. Dear, dear.
Ah, well I shall have to read my morning cereal… (He laughs.) Cereal.
Do we all get that? ↑ Apparently we don't.
Alan Ayckbourn, Table Manners, 1973
