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76. INT. JEFF’S RES. DAY
COLLINS sits in the LIVINGROOM viewing a TELEVISION PROGRAMME and seems to be really interested in it while JEFF comes in from the BEDROOM to SPEAK with him.
JEFF
Good morning, Collins.
COLLINS
Tax collector, you’re still at home; I thought you’ve gone to work?
JEFF
Could you please turn down the volume of the television, I want us talk now?
COLLINS
Oh! God, why is the devil always using you to disturb my pleasure? Now, I’m seeing an interesting programme, you’ve come to distract me with your inconsequential matter, anyway talk! I have turned down the volume.
JEFF
Thank you for finally doing that.
COLLINS
My friend, go straight to the point.
JEFF
The Landlord was here two days ago…
COLLINS
And how does that concern me?
JEFF
A lot Collins, he actually came to see you and I must tell you, he complained bitterly about your attitude becoming very unbearable…
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COLLINS
Jeff! Jeff! Please give me a break! How is my attitude becoming unbearable, I mean do I live in his apartment? If that’s the avenue you’re employing to kick me out of your apartment you had better come out openly and tell me to vacate your place instead of using the Land-Lord as an excuse.
JEFF
Me and you have been friends since child hood, we’ve come a long way, though we no longer like the same things as we used to because I perceive that such reckless lives of womanizing and excessive consumption of alcohol can only bring doom to one and decided to toe the path of righteousness…
COLLINS
Preacher! Preach on!
JEFF
I’m not here to bore you with any sermon but the summary of all I want you to understand is that you’re living a riotous life and it doesn’t pay, also it’s beginning to affect others around you; please for God’s sake desist hence forth from keeping late nights and making a hell of noise with your whores whenever you return, please I beg of you.
COLLINS
I’m an adult, for the mere fact that you’re harboring me in your apartment doesn’t give you the right to tell me how to live my life; all right.
JEFF
My brother, I’m not telling you how to live your life, all I want you to understand is that rough life kills and besides, the Landlord is threatening to ask mw to quit his house if you continue with your attitude; and now, I have lost my job and I am not in any way ready to go through the hassle to start looking for a new accommodation, please, I beg of you re-trace your steps before it’s too late.
COLLINS
No wonder! No wonder your preaching is becoming more fire brand, you’ve lost your tax collecting job? Anyway, I have heard you.