Pancakes with Shakespeare

Scene is making pancakes with William Shakespeare, the great 16th century playwright/poet.

 

D: Hey Bill, that pancake batter looks a little runny. Maybe you should add some more flour.

Shakespeare: What do you know about making pancakes anyway?

D: Nothing. I was just making a suggestion.

Shakespeare: Hand me the flour.

 

I hand him the flour. He eyes about two table spoons into the batter and continues stirring.

 

Shakespeare: You have any bananas?

D: Nope, sorry.

Shakespeare: How about some chocolate chips?

D: None of that either.

Shakespeare: How do you expect me to work with this?!

D: It smells good.

Shakespeare: Sure It smells good, but it's the chocolate chips and the bits of bananas that make life great.

D: Yeah, Banana and Chocolate chip pancakes sounds pretty delicious.

Shakespeare: I'm talking about life, you fool. Hand me some of that brandy you have.

 

I hand him a bottle of brandy.

 

Shakespeare: Open up that champagne too.

D:  Bill,  it's only 10..

Shakespeare:  (Interrupting) Who are you?

D: Dat

Shakespeare: Who am I?

D: Bill

Shakespeare: No, not Bill. I am the great William Shakespeare, The Bard of Avon, the Greatest dramatist the English Language has ever seen, The King of the Play and you are just Dat.

D: Well, I have won an aw...

Shakespeare: (Interrupting) The world is a stage, just Dat, and you choose and pick your roles. Don't ever let anyone or anything else define who you are. Drink Champagne at 10am, make banana and chocolate chip pancakes.

D: This isn't one of those ...cause you never know when it's all going to end...speeches?

Shakespeare: Do I look like a cliche? No. Look at that pancake batter. It's plain. It's a blog of congealing, white, uniformed, single textured...grey matter. Now I swirl a little brandy in it, and it's complemented by brown swirls. and If you had chocolate and bananas, we'd have beautiful chunks of deliciousness throughout our bites through life.

D: I'll remember to have chocolate chips and bananas around next time.

Shakespeare: D, drink some champagne with me.

 

We toast and drink

 

Shakespeare: Just make sure you your pancake of a life is full of brandy, bananas and chocolate chips, and don't you ever just simply syrup it over. I'd rather you just eat it real and plain.

D: Gotcha, Bill.