- AT 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING

Lights up:  The girl in the UPSTAIRS apartment is walking in circles around a
small bed.  As she walks we hear the girl from the DOWNSTAIRS apartment pounding on 
the door.

DOWNSTAIRS:	(V.O.)  Open Up!  Do you hear me?!  OPEN UP!!!

As the pounding on the door intensifies, the Upstairs girl reluctantly goes to the 
door (exit, stage left) and opens it.  The Upstairs girl walks back into the room 
with the Downstairs girl following behind.  The Downstairs girl is disheveled and 
wearing pajamas.  During the entire conversation the Upstairs girl continues to walk 
around the room in a circle without stopping.

DOWNSTAIRS:	What are you doing?

UPSTAIRS:	Nothing.

DOWNSTAIRS:	You are too, you are walking?!

UPSTAIRS:	(puzzled)  Yeah?

DOWNSTAIRS:	You've been walking around for hours?!  

UPSTAIRS:	So?

DOWNSTAIRS:	It's 3:00 o’clock in the morning!!  You can’t keep walking around
                    your apartment at 3:00 o’clock in the morning! 

UPSTAIRS:	It's my apartment.

DOWNSTAIRS:	But I hear every move you make!  This afternoon I tried to ignore it.
                    At 10:00 o’clock I thought I could sleep through it.  By midnight 
                    I figured it would stop.  But it hasn’t and I can’t. 

UPSTAIRS:	I'm just walking.

DOWNSTAIRS:	Precisely!  How can I complain? she’s walking in her own apartment.
                     Of course she can walk in her own apartment.  But you can’t walk 
                     around your apartment at 3:00 o’clock in the morning!

Upstairs girl ignores her and walks in the opposite direction.

DOWNSTAIRS:	Look, I don't want to fight.  I’ve grown accustomed to the noises
                    outside my apartment.  I’ve learned to sleep through the sounds 
                    of traffic and the beggars banging on the trashcans outside. 
                    They go home.  They go to sleep.  But you don't.  And I can’t 
                    get used to this!!  You will have to stop.
	
UPSTAIRS:	I can't.

DOWNSTAIRS:	What do you mean you can't!  Sure you can.  Sit down.  Take a break.  
                    STOP! 

UPSTAIRS:	Not until I break the Guinness Book of World Records.

DOWNSTAIRS:	The Guinness Book of World Records?!  For what?

UPSTAIRS:	Walking.

DOWNSTAIRS:	WALKING!!!  To break the world record for walking you’d have to walk
                    around this apartment a million times!!  Before you can do that 
                    you’ll wear a hole in the floor and fall through the ceiling?!
                    (watching her as she walks in circles around her)  This 
                    might have made sense 40 years ago, when the book was first
                    introduced.  You could walk around for a while and it would have
                    been the longest because nobody ever thought to do it before --
                    but now it doesn't make sense -- people go into training for
                    these things -- set up support groups -- you??  What do you have 
                    -- nothing. There's not even anyone to witness it -- even if
                    you do it, it will be your word against theirs.

UPSTAIRS:	You'll know.