Specifications

Logline: Three girls are harassed by the homeless when they stop for snacks at a gas station.

Genre: Comedy

Format: Short script

Budget: Micro ($0 – $500)

Characters: Five total. Three females (late teens to early twenties), one older woman and one older man (both “homeless”)

Locations: Car, gas station

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FADE IN

INT. CAR, DRIVING – DAY

Three twenty-somethings in a car.

TIFFANY in the backseat.

MADDIE rides shotgun.

HOPE drives.

MADDIE
I can’t wait to check out this thrift store. I hear it’s the best in the city.

TIFFANY
Can we stop for snacks before we get on the highway?

MADDIE
Oh yeah. We should load up. There is a gas station at the next light.

HOPE
No way.

MADDIE
What?

HOPE
I’m not stopping there!

TIFFANY
I’m starving! I haven’t eaten all day! I just need some chips to tide me over.

HOPE
We are not stopping there! Girl, that shit that is literally the worst gas station of the world.

MADDIE
Really?

HOPE
Yeah. Every time I go there, I’m pretty much assaulted by homeless people. And they’re not the nice kind. There’re aggressive. And the woman behind the counter is shielded like a bank teller where you can only slide money underneath. She can barely hear you when you talk. That’s how many times they’ve been robbed.

CU on Maddie, intrigued.

CU on Tiffany, hungry.

MADDIE
Oh I’ve got to see this place. Come on.

TIFFANY
I’ll be quick! In and out, I swear.

EXT. GAS STATION – DAY

They pull up.

MADDIE
Well – have you ever been to the worst grocery store in the world?

TIFFANY
Which one? The one on Broad Street?

MADDIE
Yes! It sucks balls.

HOPE
Oh my god, yes. Every time I go in there, they are out of half their shit. So I’m going down the aisles-

A HOMELESS WOMAN lingers by the door.

HOMELESS WOMAN
Got any spare change? Hey girls, you got any change?

MADDIE
No, sorry.

HOPE
We don’t have anything.

INT. GAS STATION STORE – DAY

The girls continue their conversation in the aisles.

HOPE
So anyway, I’m trying to pick up ingredients and can’t find anything, so I end up just leaving. I walked out of the store like a crazy person just yelling, “motherfucker! Piece of shit, mother fucker!”

MADDIE
Yeah, I tried to buy pepperoni there once. I wanted deli sliced.

HOPE
Oh the meat section is hell.

MADDIE
Yeah, so the line takes forever, and when I finally get up there-

HOPE
They take their sweet ass time don’t they? It’s like they actually want you to give up and leave.

MADDIE
So I asked for pepperoni. And the lady kind of like saunters over to the slicer. She looks at me and swaggers the handle of the meat slicer. Then she hold up the slice like “dis good?” And I swear to fucking God I fucking kid you not, I can see her face through the slice. So I’m like, ‘a little thicker, please.’ So she swaggers the handle again and holds up another slice and goes, “how about dis?” It’s just a little too thin still, so I ask her again, ‘please, just a little thicker.’

Toting snacks, the girls approach the bullet proof glass.