Page 5 of Boardroom Vows


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Happens all the time. Now, the question on everybody's lips, Caroline—and I do mean everybody, the cherubim are losing their little minds back there—is what, exactly, were you thinking about, in the half-second before you ate that rock?

CAROLINE

I plead the Fifth.

GOD

Caroline. Sweetheart. We're omniscient up here.

STUDIO AUDIENCE

Oooooh!

CAROLINE

This feels like a violation of my privacy.

GOD

You died horny, didn't you.

CAROLINE

I died with dignity*.*

GOD

You died thinking about the pectorals of a man who has literally killed people for a living.

CAROLINE

Okay, first of all, the pectorals were incidental. Second of all?—

GOD

Caroline.

CAROLINE

—I noticed them last?—

GOD

Caroline.

CAROLINE

—and only briefly?—

GOD

CAROLINE. Tell the people what you were thinking when your foot met that tree root.

A long, long silence. The audience leans in. A harp plays softly.

CAROLINE

(very small)