Fem. A Bright New Boise Monologue by Samuel Hunter
Fem. A Bright New Boise Monologue by Samuel Hunter
Fem. A Bright New Boise Monologue by Samuel Hunter
22-‐30
Character:
Pauline
From
“A
Bright
New
Boise”
by
Samuel
D.
Hunter
I’m
gonna
say
this
once,
and
I
hope
you
understand
me.
I
took
over
this
store
four
years
ago.
The
first
day
I
was
here,
four
out
of
six
cashiers
called
in
sick,
there
were
rats
in
the
stock
room,
and
a
good
quarter
of
all
items
on
the
floor
were
mis-‐stocked
or
mis-‐labeled.
The
manager
before
me,
this
little
pip-‐squeak
from
Nampa,
he
saw
there
was
mold
problem
in
the
air
ducts
so
his
solution
was
to
puncture
an
air
freshener
and
toss
is
inside.
It
was
chaos,
you
understand?
Corporate
told
me
I
was
taking
over
as
a
temporary
measure,
to
oversee
the
branch
for
six
months
before,
they
said,
they
would
most
likely
close
it
completely.
And
what
did
I
do?
I
cleaned
it
up.
I
stayed
here
during
nights
by
myself
restocking
and
organizing,
cleaning
the
air
ducts,
firing
and
hiring
and
basically
reshaping
this
entire
store
from
the
ground
up.
I
took
out
ads
in
the
paper
announcing
new
management
and
grand-‐reopening
sales.
Six
months
later,
our
profits
were
up
sixty-‐two
percent,
and
they’ve
been
climbing
ever
since.
I,
Will,
I
brought
order
to
the
chaos.
It’s
impressive.
Damn
near
miraculous.
And
it
happened
because
of
me.
Because
I
changed
everything
about
this
store,
I
changed
the
way
this
store
feels,
the
way
it
thinks,
the
fucking
ecosystem
in
this
store.
And
I
will
not
have
you
or
anyone
else
disrupting
the
ecosystem
I
have
painstakingly
crafted.