Estragon: Come on, we leave!
Vladimir: We can’t.
Estragon: Why not?
Vladimir: We are waiting for Godot.
Estragon: Oh yeah.
Estragon (a little later): But we might interrupt the wait?
Vladimir: Can we dare it?
Estragon: Yes, we can.
Vladimir: But Godot stays our first objective?
Estragon: Sure, he does.
Vladimir: Didn’t you have the feeling too, Godot tried to call yesterday?
Estragon: Uhhmmm, well, maybe.
Vladimir (mocking Estragon): “Uhhmmm, well, maybe”???? Can’t you express yourself a little bit clearer?
Estragon: Maybe means just that – it is possible. I admit that we had an unanswered call during work.
Vladimir: And what about the number?
Estragon: We didn’t recognize it. But admittedly again, it looks quite similar to one of Godot’s. Yet…
Vladimir: Yet? What is it?
Estragon: You tried to phone back, didn’t you?
Vladimir: Yes, sure I did. After all, we are waiting for Godot, aren’t we?
Estragon: And?
Vladimir: Well, the voice in the phone said that the number I called was temporarily unavailable…
Estragon: Hence, Godot is still unavailable, isn’t he? And we are still waiting.
Estragon (very depressed looking): I really set my hope into yesterday’s letter, didn’t you too?
Vladimir (walking up and down, wringing his hands): Sure I did! Who thought, they – who are so close (stopping in his steps and pointing out a tiny distance between his thumb and finger), so close to Godot – wouldn’t at least deliver a short message of him.
Estragon: I would have been satisfied with a single word…
Vladimir (talking himself into a rage): Just a little note so that we now they know we are waiting.
Estragon (absent minded): What are we waiting for again?
Vladimir (looking worried at his companion): For Godot. We are waiting for Godot.
Estragon (mumbling): Oh yeah, Godot.
Vladimir: You know, I didn’t like this stare into infinity you indulged yourself in lately. So, guess what I did?
Estragon (sighs): Well? I hear.
Vladimir: I called Godot.
Estragon (if he were a cat his ears would stand at point): Oi, YOU did WHAT?
Vladimir: I was weary of waiting, sick of being drained of my energy by our limbo existence, I was bored with filling my days counting daisies while my sheer existence might have not even been acknowledged by the Great Zampadu, less the effort we put in our long fight for patience; I… -
Estragon (impatiently exploding): Get to the point!
Vladimir: Godot has now the amiableness to take notice of us.
Estragon: Is it improving our situation?
Vladimir: It has a dualism to it.
Estragon: How is this?
Vladimir: Once Godot approaches finally, he might reject us…
Estragon: Well, then we better leave before he comes.
Vladimir: No, we mustn’t.
Estragon: Why not?
Vladimir: Because we are still waiting for Godot. It’s has become part of our lives.
Estragon: Oh yeah, sure.
Vladimir: Estragon?
Estragon (polishes the display of his cell phone): Vladimir?
Vladimir: Estragon? What is it? What’s wrong?
Estragon: How many installments of Dr. House did we watch since your call?
Vladimir (swallows a handful of pain reliever and limbs with a stiff leg to the TV to switch it off): Not that many, really.
Estragon (looks at Vladimir now leaning at a non-existing cane in an impossible angle in disbelief): Might have been one too many. – Anyway, are we still waiting?
Vladimir: patiently, uncomplaining, longanimous, tenacious, persistently, perseveringly, doggedly, adamantine, obstinately, pertinaciously, stubbornly, enduringly, stiff-necked…
Estragon:…stiff-legged, and this might only be from watching too much Dr. House…
Vladimir: …unfalteringly, unyieldingly, unbendingly, brassboundly…
Estragon: Who do you want to impress – the editorial department of the Thesaurus? Honestly, why can’t we just leave?
Vladimir: Because we are waiting – for Godot. Just today, when I called again Godot’s friends told me to call back next week as Godot hasn’t yet decided what to do concerning our request.
Estragon (exasperated): And why didn’t you tell me this earlier? Talking to you is sometimes like getting blood out of a stone!
Vladimir: The question is, is the blood you got from the stone any good?
Estragon: I would say, Godot didn’t reject us straight away. He didn’t took the easy way out.
Vladimir: Hence, you deem it good news, right? Well, then we wait on.
Estragon: It seems like it, doesn’t it?
I grow to like Vladimir and Estragon. They appear so surreal if you don’t know what I am talking about and this is fun. I might continue with a column “Me and Living with Godot” once my wait is successful and Godot agrees to come. One never knows.
Tags: Estragon, Godot, IDF, IDF Spokesperson's Office, Me, Vladimir, waiting
