Probing questions

Filed under Conversations, Overheard
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FADE IN: INT: SCHOOL HALLWAY.

Sitting in the hallway, two people, a girl and a guy, discuss getting financial aid for college.

Girl: I don’t know how I’m going to get financial aid. Do you know how much I’d get?

Guy: Well, are you poor?

(Both the girl and I gasp and look at the guy like, “oh no you didn’t!”)

Guy: Well, I mean, are you like, free lunch poor?

(Both the girl and I laugh nervously. I wonder if he realizes that he is asking really personal questions.)

Girl: Yeah, well, I guess I’m poor enough. (With a slight exaggeration in her tone) I am dirt poor.

Guy: Okay, yeah, you could probably get some money from that. Do you have sucky grades?

FADE OUT.