Jack: Wanna get an ice cream in town?
Louisa: Nah, I’d better not. Too expensive.
Jack: You sure?
Louisa: Yeah, I just wanna go home and cry
Jack: How come?
Louisa: It’s Ms Pappus. Every week she does these lame impressions of celebrities, and she gives you a detention if you don’t laugh.
Jack: That’s a shame. We’ve got Mr Thales. He’s pretty fun. Did a quiz last week.
Louisa: Oh man, that sounds great
Jack: Yeah, it was alright. My group would’ve won if it wasn’t for Scott.
Louisa: What did he do?
Jack: Shouted out that Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. Before we’d even had time to confer.
Louisa: Who was he then?
Jack: He invented Communism!
Louisa: Oh. I’ve never been too sure what Communism is, to be honest.
Jack: It’s just this thing about how we’re all exploited by our bosses because we do all the work but they make all the money
Louisa: What’s so great about that? Anyone could think up that. Ronnie Phelps could think up that.
Jack: Ronnie Phelps can’t even tie his shoes. Anyway, there’s more. Marx said one day we’re all going to kill our bosses and share the money out equally.
Louisa: Wow, that sounds pretty good. I dunno if I could kill my boss though.
Jack: Well, you’re only part-time. The full-time workers will do the killing. You’ll just have to spit on the corpse or something.
Louisa: When’s this gonna happen then?
Jack: I dunno, but Marx said it’s inevitable, so we just have to sit around and wait
Louisa: I hope it doesn’t take too long
Jack: Well he predicted it, like, two hundred years ago
Louisa: Two hundred years ago? And it hasn’t happened yet? What if it never happens?
Jack: I’m sure it will eventually
Louisa: Yeah, in another two hundred years! God, I feel depressed now. I was all ready for this wonderful future and now it might not even happen.
Jack: Sorry
Louisa: It’s not your fault. Just this stupid world. Let’s get that ice cream after all.
Jack: What about the money?
Louisa: Ah, fuck the money. In fact, let’s get a whole tub. I need cheering up.
