“Give Me A Break” (drama) 1 minute

Character: ROSANNA
Description: Rosanna can’t take the pressure from her sick mother.
Gender: Female
Age:  55  

She’s killing me.  She doesn’t realize what she does to me.  I know she’s sick but she needs despression pills.  Doctors said she would get depressed but this is out of hand.  She’s out of control.  It’s rough because I love her so much but she doesn’t make it easy on me.  She’s selfish, that’s her problem.  She doesn’t see what she does to other people.  And in a way, it’s cruel.  She has to have some idea as to how she affects people.

I carry her machine all around the house and that thing must weight sixty pounds.  Carry it around so she can breath.  I tell her to get longer tubes but she won’t listen.  Then she complains non stop, all day long just torturing me.  I don’t know why she gets like this.  It’s so uncalled for and I don’t know how to tell her without getting her more upset.

Last thing we both need is an argument.  She is in no condition for that and I can’t handle the stress of one.  I just need a break.  A break from all of this turmoil.  I’m booking a trip to Florida by myself on an island somewhere, where no one can find me.  Far, far away!

That solves that!