A young couple sit at one, and a middle aged couple with 2 teenagers at the other. Humorous arguments and bickering go on and the older couple discuss how alike or different they are from the other couples. Finally, they begin to tell each other how they could not have imagined being with anyone else for all these years. There is mention of the importance of making Christ the center of your marriage.3 couples and 2 teens. About 15 minutes.
different tables. The center table is set back a bit where they can
see what is happening at the other two. This table has an older
couple sitting at it. The middle aged couple has two teens. Either
a waiter/waitress brings them all menus, or they already have them
and are trying to decide.)CLINT: What are you going to have, Honey?ASHLEY: How should I know? I just picked up the menu!CLINT: Well, sometimes you already know before you even sit down.ASHLEY: Well, I don’t this time, okay?
CLINT: Fine. It’s no big deal. I was just wondering.
ASHLEY: What difference does it make?
CLINT: I just thought if I knew what you were getting; it would
help me to decide what to get myself.
ASHLEY: Just get what you want.
CLINT: I will.
ASHLEY: You’re like a little boy sometimes.
CLINT: What is that supposed to mean?
ASHLEY: Nothing.
CLINT: You can’t do that! You can’t just say something like that
and then not say what you mean! You said I was like a little boy.
Are you saying that I’m childish?
ASHLEY: Just forget it. I don’t want to talk about it.
CLINT: Oh, this is just great. I don’t know what I did wrong! All
I did was ask what you were going to have, and now you’re all mad
and we are having an argument.
ASHLEY: I’m not mad and we’re not having an argument.
CLINT: Oh, my mistake! I always get that mixed up with words of
love and compassion!
ASHLEY: Oh brother, you always take things so seriously! Just
look at your menu and decide what you want before the waiter gets
here.
EDNA: Did you see that couple over there?
GEORGE: Yeah, what about em?
EDNA: Oh, I was just thinking how that man reminded me of you.
GEORGE: I don’t look anything like him.
EDNA: Not his looks, silly. I was talking about the way he was
acting toward his wife.
GEORGE: Sounded to me like they were having a little argument.
EDNA: It was just the way it was going. He needed her to say what
she was going to order, before he could decide.
GEORGE: So?
EDNA: It was like you. You do that sometimes. You can’t decide on
your own what you want; you need to know what I am getting.
GEORGE: And what is wrong with that?
EDNA: There is nothing wrong with it. I just noticed that he was
doing that, and it made me think of you.
GEORGE: Sometimes I can’t decide what I want, and when I hear you
tell me what you want, then I might think about that and whether I
want that as well.
EDNA: I know dear. And that is what he was doing.
GEORGE: Yeah, but I don’t get all huffy and mad and act like he did.
EDNA: There may have been a time, but I have learned over the years
not to react to your little handicap, the way she did.
GEORGE: Handicap? It’s not a handicap.
EDNA: You’re right dear. That was a poor choice of words. Let’s
just decide what we want to order.
GEORGE: What are you going to have? (He suddenly realizes what he
just said and they look at each other and laugh a little)
PETE: Now, I don’t want everyone to take all day deciding. When
the waitress gets here, I want you to all know what you want.
KAREN: aye aye, Sir! (He looks at her and sneers like “very funny”)
SAM: Dad just said that because you always take too long, Rachel.
RACHEL: I do not!
SAM: Yes you do!
RACHEL: Do not!
SAM: Do too!
KAREN: That’s enough. (Pause-looking at the menu) I wonder if you
can get the chicken and broccoli without the broccoli.
SAM: Then it wouldn’t be called Chicken and broccoli, would it?
PETE: I’m sure you can ask. But make sure you have a back up just
in case they say no.
KAREN: I’m not stupid. And why are you being so organized and
giving out rules? Are we in some kind of hurry?
PETE: I’m not giving out rules. It’s just embarrassing to have the
waitress come and we aren’t ready.
KAREN: What difference does it make? If we aren’t ready, we aren’t
ready.
PETE: But then they always take forever before coming back the
second time. If you don’t have it together right away, then you
will be sitting here forever.
KAREN: There must be a game on TV. That must be it.
PETE: There is no game. I just think we can do this better than
we usually do.
RACHEL: I think Dad is mad because you always ask too many questions.
PETE: I’m not mad. This isn’t mad.
SAM: Yeah. I’ve seen Dad mad, and that isn’t mad.
KAREN: What do you mean I ask too many questions? There is no such
thing as asking too many questions. How will you ever find answers
if you don’t ask!
PETE: Rachel is right. You do ask a lot of questions. You always
want to know what the soup of the day is.
KAREN: What’s wrong with that?
PETE: You never order it!
KAREN: Maybe I don’t want what kind they have.
PETE: But you never order it, no matter what it is!
KAREN: That’s not true. I’m sure I’ve ordered the soup before.
Besides, the person who sits you at the table is supposed to let you
know stuff like that, so you don’t have to ask. And so what if I
ask and then decide not to get it! So what!
SAM: It is kind of embarrassing the way you always ask so many
questions of the waitress all the time.
KAREN: What is this? Is everyone ganging up on me?
PETE: Just forget it. Everyone study your menus.
RACHEL: Is there going to be a test?
GEORGE: Did you hear that conversation over there? With the woman
who asks questions?
EDNA: Poor lady. It was one against three. She didn’t have a
chance.
wesage –
The download went very well. We are using this script in a Valentine’s Day Banquet that our youth group puts on every year. We usually have a pretty good crowd, and like to come up with something to entertain them. Your script “Soup of the Day” is perfect. Thank you so much! In Christ’s Love Always,
Amy Powell, First General Baptist Church of Heber Springs, Heber Springs, AR