"Photo Album" by Matt Dustin

(Mason, Matt, Ryan and David are sitting next to each other looking at a photo album)

RYAN: These photos are great. Are they from summer camp?

MATT: Yes. Hey guys look at this. This must be the photo that my dad took of Greg when he dumped the can of stove gas on the fire.

DAVID: Matt, what happened to him? He’s got black spots on his face, and he’s……….. Bald?

MATT : Oh, that’s just soot on his face. But his hair has grown back in now. Unfortunately we did lose two tents that night. But Paul, Jeremy and I  set up our tent far enough away from the fire ring so our tent didn’t catch on fire.

MASON: That’s nothing like the next photo.

DAVID: Oh’ man. Whose feet are those that are sticking out of the water?

MATT: That’s Nick. He wanted to dive, and when he did, he got his hands stuck in between some rocks.

RYAN: How did you get him out?

MASON: We didn’t, the water snake did.

DAVID: What? How did a water snake get him out?

RYAN: Yea, how?

MATT:  Well he got so scared that he pulled his hands out from in between the rocks and cut it all up. Something about a black mamba.

MASON: Yeap, four stitches and two bandaids all from my first aid kit.

DAVID: Wow!

RYAN: Mason is that you in this photo? You look like your choking.

MASON: That’s because I am choking. It was Ben’s turn to make dessert and was making baked apple. He should have put cinnamon on the apples. But he grabbed the chili pepper instead. And he put on a lot of it too. That was about the hottest apple I’ve ever had.            

MATT: And then Billy got two toes bitten off by that great northern pike.

DAVID: O yeah, Paul came home with a bandaid on his cheek. But all he told us was ‘The great northern pike did it. The great northern pike did it.’ He was even saying it in his sleep. What happened?

MATT: Well, Paul made an old fashioned fishing pole out of a stick. And Alex, being the good scout that he is, had some fishing line and a hook in his bag. And I guess Paul thought he had that fish. So he pulled the line out as hard as he could and the line came flying out of the water and the hook went into Paul’s cheek. We had to pour water down his throat so he could drink. Because every time he took a sip, water would shoot out the side of his mouth. We could see that pike laughing at him.

RYAN AND DAVID: Gross that’s just gross.

MASON: And all of this happened at summer camp.

MATT: Speaking of summer camp, I have the sign-up sheet for this year’s summer camp right here.

(Matt pulls out a piece of paper and holds it out)

MATT: So if you want to sign-up this is the time.

RYAN: No thanks.

DAVID: Not really.

MASON: That’s ok.

(Matt L, Ryan and David get up and exit)

MATT: Well I wonder what’s gotten into them?

(Matt gets up and exits)                

Props:

4 chairs
Photo album