Just Barely Got Something to do with chess

INT: CONVENIENCE STORE. DAY

RANDAL

How long did you date Caitlin?

DANTE

Five years

RANDAL

Chick only made you nuts. She cheated on you how many times?

DANTE

Eight and a half.

RANDAL

(looks up from paper)

Eight and a half?

DANTE

Party at John K's - senior year. I get blitzed and pass out in the bedroom. Caitlin comes in and jumps all over me.

RANDAL

That's cheating?

DANTE

In the middle of it, she calls me Brad.

RANDAL

She called you Brad?

DANTE

She called me Brad

RANDAL

That's not cheating. People say crazy shit during sex. One time, I called this girl "Mom."

DANTE

I hit the lights and she freaks. Turns out she thought I was Brad Michaelson.

RANDAL

What do you mean?

DANTE

She was supposed to meet Brad Michaelson in a bedroom. She picked the wrong one. She had no idea I was even at the party.

RANDAL

Oh, my God.

DANTE

Great story isn't it?

RANDAL

That girl was vile to you.

DANTE

Interesting postscript to that story: Do you know who wound up going with Brad Michaelson in the other dark bedroom?

RANDAL

Your mother.

DANTE

Allan Harris.

RANDAL

Chess team Allan Harris?!

DANTE

The two moved to Idaho together after graduation. They raise sheep.

RANDAL

That's frightening.

DANTE

It takes different strokes to move the world.

... to do with chess Index