Setting: A busy highway truck stop on the out skirts of a small town. While markus is 22 he is about as mature as a 12 year old. About an hour ago he had a fight with his mother and walked out. Pete is a hardened 52 year old truck driver who has stopped here to refuel and move on. Pete is obviously sexually predatory. Markus is naive and has no idea about the world outside the shelter he has grown up in. Today is Christmas Day.
Markus: Hey can I ride with you?
Pete: Don't know... How old are you?
Markus: I'm 22, I will be 23 in a few months.
Pete: Well that's old enough to consent, tell you what you buy me a little something to eat and I will let you go with me. I got a dog and you will have to hold her pillow on your lap so she can sit on it... is that Ok?
M: I don't have any money
P: Oh, that's even better I bet we can work something special out for you to pay me back.
M: Great, what can I do? I will do anything you want just tell me.
P: Don't worry about that now, your my new best friend and I want to buy you something to eat. Let's go inside.
Inside the two men are seated at a table and the conversation continues.
P: Now at this time of the year you should be with your family, where are they right now?
M: My mother kicked me out of the house. I spent all my money to get a bus ticket here and she just kicked me out. I am so tired of putting up with everything she puts me through. I told her I was not going to go back to the vaction house they own a few hours from here.
P: So you live in thier house?
M: Not anymore. They have three houses and after all they've put me through they should be happy that I live in one of thier houses... but no... all she can think about is rent. Who are they landlords or parents. I can't tell. They have been making me pay the telephone bill for 6 months, even though the only people I ever call long distance is them. Last month they told me I have to start paying the electricity. The electricity has been cut off now and there is not much point in going back to that house for me. Now they want rent too. God I am sick of it. I am never going to talk to them again!
P: So how long have you lived in this house they own?
M: 5 years now.
P: And in all this time you have never paid the bills, or given them one dime of rent?
M: They are my parents why should I have to?
P: I have decided what you have to do for me if you want a ride. I want you to wash my truck from one end to the other.
M: Are you crazy? That would take me all day and it's already after dark.
P: (angry)Just what I thought, you are a lazy punk who is ungrateful for everything. Today is Christmas day and I would give anything to be with my family. My mother is dead, my wife takes all my money and my own children have grown-up and won't talk to me. You think I have nothing better to do than drive some rotten brat around? Well your right... this is it... I really have nothing better to do.
p: (continues) I don't think you could wash my truck because you have never done a days work in your life. You need a good beating. I will let you come with me and I will show you what life is really about, but if you are smart you will just go home and tell you mother how sorry you are for being such a screw-up and beg her to let you come home!
P: (Continues) Well, it's time to take off... 'best friend' are you coming with me?
M: I think I am alergic to dogs anyway, I have a phone call to make.
[note: at this point Markus is resolved to be a better son and do something with his life]