THE LADY and THE WOMAN. Still on the queue. THE WOMAN is sitting on the chair, and THE LADY is impatiently pacing the floor.

LADY: It is the inertia that kills me.

WOMAN: What's that?

LADY: Inactivity.

WOMAN: We could kill time by playing some game.

LADY: Like what?

WOMAN: Liketo. We could get some small stones and play liketo.

LADY: On this wet ground?

WOMAN: I forgot about that. The wet ground. We could devise a game. Something we can play while one of us is sitting on the chair and the other one is standing up.

LADY: Maybe we could lay every guy on this queue.

WOMAN [standing up and horrified]: What!

LADY: Lay them, you know. The poor guys have been standing here for days, and I am sure quite a few of them are horny. We could all have a ball.

WOMAN: I think that's disgusting.

LADY [with relish]: Yeah, let's all be disgusting.

WOMAN: But then, it's something you are used to. It's your profession, you said.

LADY: Just for kicks this time. We wouldn't dream of charging these wretched souls a cent.

WOMAN: Why did you become a prostitute?

LADY: Eh?

WOMAN: You heard me.

LADY: You expect a sob story, I am sure. A broken home. Abused as a child by a step-father. Family so poor we had to scrounge for food any way and anywhere we could. I am sorry to disappoint you. I was from a very happy family. We were not millionaires, but we had enough to eat. You can even say we lived almost on the wealthy side of the street. I went to a private school. Even up to university. Attempted a BA. Didn't finish though.

WOMAN: Then why did you become a prostitute?

LADY: Choice! Godammit, can't a woman choose what she wants to do with her life?

WOMAN: You are such a beautiful woman. You could have made some lucky man a good wife.

LADY: I did make somebody a good wife. I was so damn good that he left me. Ran away with the maid.

THE WOMAN has seen something which excites her.

WOMAN: Look, they are loading it into the trucks!

LADY: What?

WOMAN: The fucken rice we are waiting for. They are loading it into those trucks.