Lunch, Scene One: At Romeo's.Leo flounces in and out, Annelies arrives ... ah, Annelies ...

AT ROMEO’S, A BUSY ITALIAN BISTRO FREQUENTED BY LOUD, BOORISH, SELF-CENTRED EGOTISTS. AND THAT'S JUST THE WAITERS.

ANDREW (TYPICAL BRASH, SHINY-SUIT-WEARING MEDIA BUYER (AND THEY CALL CREATIVES THE WANKERS - GO FIGURE) WHO IS ALWAYS IMPATIENT): Let's call the waiter over.

THE WAITER IS ADMIRING HIS REFLECTION IN THE CHROMED
SIDE OF THE COFFEE MACHINE.

MICK: He's busy combing his ponytail.

ANDREW (IN A SEMI-LOUD VOICE): Come here you poof.

MICK: Shut up idiot, he'll poison our drinks.

KEN (READING MENU): Caesar salad for me today I think.

ANDREW: Do you ever have anything different?

KEN: I had pasta once. Hey, look who's here.

LEO, BAD ART DIRECTOR AND WANNABE CREATIVE DIRECTOR, RUSHES IN IN A CLOUD OF CIGARETTE SMOKE, WEARING HIS DARK GLASSES.)

ANDREW: Take your sunglasses off you idiot. You're
inside the darkest café in Melbourne.

LEO (IGNORES HIM): Guys, I've parked the new Audi right out the front where everyone can see it, but I need to go the bank. Can you guys order me a spaghetti arrabiatta with extra chili. I'm Italian you know. I like the real thing. You know, hot stuff. (HE RUSHES OUT AGAIN, SUNGLASSES STILL ON)

ANDREW: Yeah, righto Leo. I think I'll have the triple-decker pancakes.

MICK: Me too.

KEN: You guys always have pancakes. Why don't you get a life?

MICK: I had Caesar salad once. Are the girls coming?

ANDREW: One's just been. Oh look, here are the real
ones. Annelies, sit here.

MICK: No, sit here, Annelies. You don’t want to sit next to Andrew, you work with him all day.

KEN: Would you guys stop fighting over Annelies. Especially you Mick, you're getting married soon.

MICK: Well I need to practise my chivalry then, don't I?

ANDREW: I thought when you got married you had to stop practising your chivalry.

KEN: You wouldn't know and you probably never will, Andrew.

ANNELIES (ABSOLUTELY STUNNING BLOND MEDIA ASSISTANT WITH A VOICE LIKE INGRID BERGMAN AND THE SELF-ASSURANCE THAT COMES FROM HAVING BEEN RAISED BY INTELLIGENT KOOYONG-DWELLING PARENTS AND GONE TO A PROPER SCHOOL): For God's sake guys, grow up. I'll sit where I want to. Even next to Leo. (SHE SITS NEXT TO KEN.)

TO BE CONTINUED