I have zero tolerance for her attitude.
In drama scene from eplay, “Wild Card” Wanda confides in Rebella about her difficult sister Gracie, but Gracie overhears them talking.
WANDA: Her mood swings; I don’t react well to them. I get so nasty at her. I do. Like, I have zero tolerance for her attitude. It’s become a thing where I have to force myself to be nice to her.
REBELLA: She’s difficult.
WANDA: For no reason. Or like she’ll have a reason, but it’s twisted. I took her off the register ’cause it gives her anxiety. She can’t do two things at once. It’s the pills she’s taking –
Enter Gracie. Wanda stops talking.
GRACIE: Hear you talkin’ sh’t about me.
WANDA: F’ck off.
GRACIE: Say it to my face if you got something to say.
WANDA: I’m not saying anything you haven’t already been told.
GRACIE: Yeah, but now you’re preaching.
WANDA: That bothers you?
GRACIE: It’s my name!
WANDA: Your name? What name? Everyone knows you’re an a-hole. That’s your name. A-hole.
GRACIE: A lot I can say about you, but I don’t go ’round airing you out.
WANDA: Go away.
GRACIE: Stop talkin’.
REBELLA: Why don’t we just chill, ya’ll?
GRACIE: Shut up, Rebella. All you do is scheme. Scheming, always scheming.
REBELLA: What schemin’?
GRACIE: Like we don’t know you want in.
REBELLA: In what?
GRACIE: The shop!
REBELLA: The shop?
GRACIE: You’re hoping to be partner one day and eventually become owner.
REBELLA: I have no interest in this place.
GRACIE: Want your little bits of glory, don’t ya? So you can walk ’round town like some little miss sunshine. SORRY, but I’m part owner.
WANDA: Who made you part owner?
GRACIE: I’m your sister. Next of kin. Anything goes wrong, this place is mine.
WANDA: That’s not how it works.
GRACIE: Course it is.
WANDA: No, it’s not. I’ll sell this place off before I ever give it to you.
GRACIE: Yeah…well…nothing’s gonna come of it anyway.
WANDA: (laughs to Rebella) She’s nuts.
GRACIE: Was my idea to expand the store, break down that wall, and add menswear? Now the menswear is outselling the women’s.
WANDA: (leaning forward) It was Lloyd’s idea.
GRACIE: Lloyd?
WANDA: Yeah, when he moved out from next door and gave me a rack of his clothes to sell.
GRACIE: Don’t remember that.
WANDA: Cause you f’cked off to France somewhere –
GRACIE: Paris. I went to Paris.
WANDA: Whatever.
GRACIE: For my mental health.
WANDA: Good for you.
GRACIE: Yeah, well, don’t mock me.
WANDA: I wasn’t mocking you.
GRACIE: It’s in your tone, how you say things, always in your tone. You’re the don of saying something in tone.
WANDA: Point is you weren’t here, therefore the idea wasn’t yours. It happened by accident.
GRACIE: I said it way before Lloyd gave you his crap to sell. I know that for a fact, but as usual, I got ignored. And now some crackhead named Lloyd gets the credit.
WANDA: Lloyd’s a sweetheart.
GRACIE: Why didn’t you trust me enough when I first mentioned it –
WANDA: I don’t remember you saying anything –
GRACIE: I did, and you know I did!
WANDA: I don’t recall.
GRACIE: Cause you don’t want to recall, you don’t wanna give me credit for anything.
WANDA: That’s not true.
GRACIE: It is true.
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In the one-act eplay, “Wild Card” Gracie overhears her sister Wanda talking about her in a negative way. Certain truths get realized when Gracie confronts her sister and calls her out on her own nonsense. 3 Women.
