Big Trouble2002

Eliot Arnold:
What does a guy like Arthur do for a living?

Anna Herk:
He's an executive at Penultra Corporation.

Eliot Arnold:
[chuckles] I did an article on them once. They built the jail downtown where the plumbing doesn't work. I called it, "Crapital Punishment."

Anna Herk:
Eliot Arnold, from The Herald? I used to read your column! You were so funny. What happened?

Eliot Arnold:
I lost my sense of humor in the divorce.

[Anna laughs]

Eliot Arnold:
[more seriously] How does a guy like Arthur end up with someone like you?

Anna Herk:
I married him when Jenny was little. My first husband left us kind of early, and we had to move to this crappy little apartment, and I met Arthur. He was different then. I keep looking up divorce lawyers in the phone book, but then I think about that horrible apartment.

Eliot Arnold:
It's unavailable. I live there.

[She laughs again.]