COMEDY OF ERRORS

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Disclaimer

All the characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Characters

Sane

Insane

Other minor characters appear and fade away in between the conversation.

Opening scene

(Sane comes to the house of Insane)

Sane: Hey dear friend, How do you do? How about going for a movie today?

Insane: Movie! Well, let’s move for it.

Sane: Where is your laptop? We will book tickets for the movie.

Insane: It’s there on the chair.

Sane: (Searching everywhere) Where? (After sometime Sane excavates the laptop from the chair fully hidden by a heap of clothes) My goodness! Why this chair is always like this? Phew! Always covered with clothes!

Insane: Those clothes are too dirty for the wardrobe, but too good for laundry.

 


(Stupefied by this answer, Sane goes to the next room with the laptop.)

Sane: (While choosing the new releases he finds an interesting trailer of a movie) Wow! What a wonderful make! This trailer is superb. Let’s book tickets for this.

Insane: Why can’t they come up with a one hour trailer?

Sane: Oops!

(Later, Sane takes the car and they reach the theater)

Sane: (While enjoying the movie, he whispers) Wonderful comedy.

Insane: (Highly disturbed by a baby crying in her mother’s hand, sitting in front of him.) Can’t this mother stop the child crying? It’s really disgusting. I can’t hear anything.

Sane: Hush, Don’t blame. It takes a village to raise a child.

Insane: Then I definitely want her contact number.

Sane: For what?

Insane: I will request her to share the map to the village, so that I can drop my kids there.

Sane: (Thunderstruck. Looks at him spellbound.)

(Interval came and they both rushed to the nearby shop.)

Sane: Can we order a small pizza.

Insane: Nice idea.

(Sane orders a pizza.)

Shop attendant: Can I cut the pizza into 4 or 8 slices?

Insane: Make it 4. I don’t think I can eat 8.

Sane: (At a loss for words… laughs.)

(After the movie they returned home.)

Insane: I will take the car.

Sane: Alright.

(On the way back)

Insane: Oh, I forgot something. I want to book a ticket for my visit to Las Vegas. I will park the car here. Where is my phone?

Sane: Hey! Hey! Hey! Why are you parking here? See the board.

Insane: Yeah, I saw the board. It’s ok to park here my friend.

Sane: (Worried) Oh!

Insane: (Calls the travel agency and books a ticket to Las Vegas. He confirms the ticket and asks) Can you tell me the time distance between here and Las Vegas?

The man at the other end: One second sir…

Insane: Ok, Thank you. (And cuts the call.)

Sane: (Without knowing whether to cry or laugh, shouts at insane.) That police man is heading towards us.

Insane: (Comes out of the car.) What’s the problem, Sir?

The police man: Did you see this board? I am going to fine you for violating traffic rules.

Insane: I thought the sign meant, it was okay to park here. See the sign board. It's fine to park here.


 

The police man: (Shocked and angry) Is it? You are crazy. Let me see who is in the car with you. I will arrest him instead.

Insane: For what?

The police man: For giving the car's key to a lunatic.

(The police man takes Sane with him. We can hear the shouts of Sane crying aloud.)

Sane: SIR…LEAVE ME… PLEASE…LEAVE ME…

The End

This is an introspection into the basic human nature which is a combination of sanity and insanity whence everyone seeks perfection which is a mirage and can’t be achieved. So, instead of brooding over our errors, let’s celebrate our comedies of errors.

Comments

  1. TINDU JOSEPH27 April 2022 at 08:09

    Life is better when you are laughing... keep laughing.

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