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The Candy Store
Props: A ladder maybe 6’ tall
Players: Shopkeeper, kid
This one can be really hammed up and included the kid walking up in a dance kind of way and the old
storekeeper, being old, very laboriously climbing up a ladder, getting the candy jar, coming down, counting out the candies, and so on.
Kid: (Kid walks up to storekeeper and asks) I want five of those penny candies way up at the top.
Storekeeper: You mean those penny candies, way, way, waaaaaayy up top?
Kid: Yes, please.
Storekeeper: Sigh! (Kid takes innocent pleasure in watching the storekeeper go up.) Storekeeper climbs up and get him five candies, and receives the five cents.
This scene repeats itself several times over 3 more days, with the storekeeper being more and more tired
each time and becoming equally more frustrated until...
Storekeeper: Oh! I see that kid coming. I know what he's coming to get, so I'll climb up now to get the
candies before he comes in and have it ready for him.
(Kid walks in.)
I bet I know what you want. I bet you want
five of the penny candies from way up top, right?
Kid: Nope! Not today!
Storekeeper: Sigh! Now I have to climb back up to put them away. (He climbs up, puts them away, then
comes down.) Now, sonny, what would you like today?
Kid: I would like three of those penny candies way up at the top!
Shopkeeper chases boy off stage with a “Why I Ought a…”