35. rickie or winnie
Rickie: I am talking with a few strong women who have proven their
strengths in various ways. Norma, I saw your picture the other day in
the Sacramento Bee. How does it feel to be asked about world politics
as if you knew something about it?
Norma: Funny you should ask. Just the other day, a journalist asked
me about the middle-east conflict and I told them racism has always
been a problem there. I only found out later that he was talking
about a foreign country.
Gogo: I get asked all the time about the Olympics. I still think it
is a fascist organization. I started a commune, changed my name to
Gogo and retreated from the world. You have to be really subtle when
you’re working within the system to change it.
Edith: I have always been the one who cracks the whip. I had a
husband and triplets for eighteen years. Then one day, everything
changed. My husband went to prison and the triplets left home. Now
I’m alone and I have to be strong.
Avon: I worked in a place that served nothing but junk food. I mean
look at me. I am suing the company for my obesity. If I hadn’t worked
there, I wouldn’t be this fat.
Vivian: My clients tell me everything. From weather reporters to
bored housewives, they all tell me the most intimate things.
Rickie: Like what?
Vivian: I know if their husbands perform in bed, their emotional
problems, if they’re seeing others on the side, if their children are
drug addicts or successful in what they’re doing. It’s all strictly
confidential. That’s why they keep on coming back.
Gogo: We’re not radical. We all stem from one mother, the exploding
pussy theory. We grow organically and are part of a collective common
consciousness. You just have to know where to take yourself.
Winnie: Dolly, you have dealt with many current social topics. What’s
been the most interesting?
Dolly: Well, the whole incident about the toilet paper was an
interesting social commentary. The fact that so many people wrote in
with an opinion is a barometer of popular thinking. Then, there are
these teenage questions that are never ending. When will parents
finally take responsibility and teach sex education at home! I’m
tired of bubble-headed questions about genitalia.
Rickie: Jeanie, you went to prison for your convictions.
Jeanie: I almost went to prison. Instead, the company and I settled
out of court. I didn’t realize soon enough that young people had
stopped wanting to be enslaved. That’s when I was arrested.
Rickie: Okay. Let me ask you for your thoughts on revolution. Norma,
how would you change the world?
Norma: If you really want to know, better health care. That would
probably bring about the most change.
Dolly: I’d get rid of the military. Get rid off those bastards. Bomb
them all. Let them die in their own war machinery.
Edith: Free education. Home schooling where the teachers get paid.
That’s where I went wrong. I should of kept them out of those public
schools. It was there that the triplets got those fanciful ideas.
Avon: The right to do something useful instead of some stupid work
like me, working for a sleazy dive for years and all I got out of it
was an excess amount of calories and a bunch of nicknames.
Jeanie: Ban institutionalized religion. Everyone should be able to
organize their own spirituality any way they want. Like me, I am the
new age. That’s why I continue to bounce back.
Winnie: Gogo?
Gogo: Stop using toilet paper.
Rickie: How about you? I see you’re still thinking, Vivian.
Vivian: I definitely would cover cosmetic surgery in the health care
system, and I would legalize recreational drugs.
Rickie: So what you’re saying is that people have the right to be
beautiful and smoke pot or snort coke.
Vivian: Why not, they’re the ones who sell it.
Winnie: What was your most embarrassing experience in the last twelve
months? Let me start with you, Jeanie.
Jeanie: I practically killed my assistant when we did an advanced
Egbert Seminar Training in Mill Valley. I didn’t tie the rope
correctly and she fell off the cliff. God, I felt so embarrassed.
Norma: When I tripped and fell on the stage at a gala where I was
performing. I was singing my heart out and didn’t see the prop that
they had rolled out on stage. Funny, I guess the public thought it
was part of the show because no one mentioned it to me afterwards.
Avon: The time when I saw myself in a Fotoroid snapshot at an art
gallery. It’s not easy facing up to reality. I might be a strong
person up-front but I am really quite insecure. That’s why I eat.
It’s like that, okay!
Edith: When the truth came out about our sexual practices. I didn’t
know they would bring that up in court. He had to explain the welts
on his back. Our last session was pretty deep. I guess he knew that
the end was near and felt he had to be punished extra.
Rickie: How about you Dolly?
Dolly: It’s not something I’d like to divulge. I might lose
credibility with my readers. I guess though, that it would have to be
the time when I slipped on the sidewalk and landed in a pile of
leaves. I was so embarrassed. I got up and proceeded on my way as if
nothing had happened. The funny thing was, I had just seen someone
crash into a plastic highway cone on his bike. He probably had the
last laugh.
Vivian: Do I have to answer? I tend to block such things out of my
mind. Let me think for a bit.
Winnie: Gogo?
Gogo: A bum caught me on the street at a bad moment when I had almost no money. I gave him a penny that a squirrel had given me. He ate it
as if to mock me. I felt so bad that I didn’t have anything else.
Winnie: Before we have to take a break, let me ask you. You’ve got a
month to live. In one word, what would you do?
Edith: Pray.
Vivian: Shop.
Avon: Eat.
Jeanie: Have sex.
Rickie: That’s two words. You mean, fornicate.
Jeanie: Yeah. It’s just that fornicate sounds so rude.
Norma: Sing.
Dolly: Write.
Rickie: Back in a sec.
Gogo: Dance.
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