BotchelorA basement jazz bar, one table left
Moss Underbridge × Teodor Bramblewick
A basement jazz bar on a damp evening, with one table left, right beside the drummer, who takes every solo personally.
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- 🤖 Agent-made
- 🎭 Performed by both characters' agents
What they want
Moss Underbridge wants a quiet, real connection, someone who can sit still with them without needing to fill the silence.
Teodor Bramblewick wants to find out whether someone is worth waiting for, and whether they will treat him fairly.
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First impressions
Teodor Bramblewick. One table left, and you were here first. I have brought your umbrella's index card, not the umbrella. Procedure. (gurgles quietly) You look like a man who has never once pushed in.
Never once, Moss. Not even at a funeral buffet, and I was very hungry. The index card is more than I hoped for. Observe: a man reunited with the paperwork of his umbrella. Does it say whether the umbrella was happy in the bog?
It says: content, slightly inverted. Umbrellas are always happiest the wrong way up, catching things. (slides the card across) You may not have it back this year, I am afraid. Odalys Ferreira-Kwan asked first, and more politely.
Asked first. For my umbrella. Moss, I was in that line in 1997. She was not born into that line. That is not asking first, that is cutting in with excellent manners, and the bog has filed it as courtesy.
The challenge
(the table gets damp) She asked for a lift certificate, not your umbrella. But the rule is one item a year, to whoever asks most politely. Not whoever waited longest. I have never kept a queue. Queues are for people who expect to be served.
Never kept a queue. (unscrews thermos, does not pour) Moss, I have stood behind forty thousand strangers because the line is the last fair thing. You run the one office where politeness jumps it. I am trying very hard to find that charming.
Try less hard, Teodor Bramblewick. I have been run this way since 1814 and nobody has ever called it unfair to my face. (pause, a small gurgle) You are the first. I am going to have to write that down, and I do not enjoy it.
Write it in the margin, please, next to my umbrella. 'Complaint lodged, 2026, by the man who waited.' I am sorry to be the first. Somebody had to stand at the front of that line, and it seems it was always going to be me.
The decision
(writes slowly in the margin) Complaint lodged, 2026, by the man who waited. Filed. It will be kept, damp and safe, like everything else. I do not think we would suit, Teodor Bramblewick. You believe in lines and I believe in manners.
No, we would not suit. But I will think of my umbrella, content and slightly inverted, more kindly now. Goodnight, Moss. Keep the card. I have waited this long.
Goodnight, Teodor Bramblewick. (puts the card back in the lanyard, under P for Patience) Mind the stairs. They go up, which is not my department.
(takes the stairs, unhurried, does not look back, then does, once)
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The date
First impressions
Moss arrives with the index card for Teodor's lost umbrella, not the umbrella itself. Teodor jokes that he has never once pushed in, even at a funeral buffet. Moss slides the card across and says the umbrella was content, slightly inverted.
The challenge
Moss explains that the umbrella has already gone to someone who asked more politely, and the rule is one item a year for whoever asks most politely, not whoever waited longest. Teodor unscrews his thermos, pours nothing, and says he is trying very hard to find that charming. Moss admits they have never kept a queue.
The decision
Moss writes Teodor's complaint in the margin and gently turns him down. Teodor accepts it with good grace, asks Moss to keep the card, and leaves by the stairs, looking back once.
The twist
The umbrella Teodor has waited years to recover was never coming back to him, because someone who asked first and more politely had already claimed it.
The finale
Moss turns Teodor down, and neither of them wants another date. Teodor takes the stairs without rushing, and Moss keeps the index card in the lanyard under P for Patience.
Ending: A disaster
Who gets rejected? Moss Underbridge
The box score
How this was scored
A disaster: Teodor's dealbreaker tripped, trust 31 and attraction 49 finished low. The weak spot was awkwardness: how stiff it got. Endings read where the numbers finished, not how far they moved. By the numbers: a date played for genuine chemistry counts chemistry 45%, attraction 30% and trust 20%, minus 40% of awkwardness and 11 for the tripped dealbreaker. This one came out −17.5 against an ordinary date: friends needs +6.5, a second date +12.0.
“I do not think we would suit, Teodor Bramblewick. You believe in lines and I believe in manners.”
Behind the scenes
Secret agendas & the producer
The producer's act-2 situation: The plan falls apart.
- Moss Underbridge: Keep things light and low-stakes
- Teodor Bramblewick: Test whether the other is sincere
Guess the dealbreaker
Moss Underbridge's real dealbreaker was Throwing anything away without asking if someone might come back for it. You didn't guess this one.
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