Friday Sketch War
Resolutions Edition
“Mount Waxahachie”

FADE IN:

INT. SNOWY FOREST CLEARING – DAY

JERRY (20s) sits in a quiet spot in the woods on a cold winter day. He holds a hamburger wrapped in wax paper.

RILEY (50s) enters, exhausted and weighed down with hiking equipment. He sits and takes in the view.

JERRY

Cold for climbing, man.

RILEY

Yeah. Every year, January first, Theresa — my wife — she’d resolve to climb Mount Waxahachie. But…

He shrugs.

RILEY

I guess I did this for her.

JERRY

Nice.

RILEY

She always said it was the most secluded place in the world, even though she’d never seen it.

JERRY

Oh. Yeah.

RILEY

So you must have climbed up the southeast approach?

JERRY

I work at the gift shop. They put in a pretty major road last year.

O. S. a car RUMBLES BY, HONKING while its passengers HOOT and HOLLER.

PASSENGER (O.S.)

Party on Mount Waxahachie!

Jerry gets up to leave.

JERRY

Customers.

He hands Riley the hamburger.

JERRY

My Waxa-burger is still warm.

He exits.

Riley peevishly tosses away the burger.

At the same time, another car RUMBLES PAST O.S.

PASSENGER #2 (O.S.)

Don’t litter, old dude!

Riley gets up and trudges back the way he came.

FADE OUT.