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    J.D. Santiago
    Aug 13, 2020

    DELAY Written by J.D.Santiago

    in Your Short Plays

    BEN - 24, a student who is trying to be mo

    re financially self sufficient.


    BEN'S MOM


    ATM MACHINE


     

    EXT. A SIDEWALK - DAY


    BEN walks with purpose down a busy sidewalk. He receives a phone call, he removes his phone from his pocket and checks it. It's BEN'S MOM calling.


    BEN

    Again?


    BEN ignores the call shoves the phone into his back pocket. He continues to walk down the sidewalk until he gets to the end of the street and he turns the corner down an empty street. He continues until he comes across an old ATM machine. The machine looks like it could have been a prototype to what modern ATM machines are today. The body is dirty and the numbers have been used so much that you can hardly see them on the keypad. The screen is dimly lit and feels as if the machine is using all of it's energy to keep it on.


    ATM MACHINE

    Please insert card.


    BEN inserts his card and the machine beeps at him.


    ATM MACHINE

    Card Declined.


    BEN

    Seriously?