(Bob approaches group of ladies, eyeing the one on the left. This would have to be Jane.)
Bob: Good Morning ladies. I was just passing by when I couldn’t help but over hear your conversation. I was wondering, why should women have suffrage?
(Three ladies descend on Bob)
Jane: Why? Why should we have suffrage?
(At Jane’s sharp rebuke, Bob looks mightily hurt.)
Sally: You ignorant nitwit! Everybody needs suffrage.
Sue: You stupid men! Just because you can, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to! Everybody should be equal!
Bob: Wait, wait a...
(Bob tries to recover and make amends for obviously touching on such a sensitive subject.)
Sally: Remember the Chartist’s Movement? Did anyone mention women? No! Just men.
Jane: And even when Queen Victoria came to power, women still didn’t get to vote. What a bunch of sewage.
Bob: I understand, ladies, I just...
Sue: Poor Sally, her poor mother. They grew up in France, you know, and they never got to vote.
Sally: Yes, poor me. Do you know what? You show-off men couldn’t vote either, not until the Third Republic came along. And even then it was a sorry affair. Trust it to be put together by men. Anything created by them usually falls apart.
Bob: Really, friends, don’t you....
Jane: That poor man, in that Dreyfus Affair? What about that? Of course -- done and bumbled by men.
(Bob smiles sympathetically at Jane.)
(Sally and Sue start talking to each other, Jane is half-way listening, but beginning to edge over towards Bob.)
(Camera and spotlight on Sally and Sue.)
Sally: By the way, Sue, are you familiar with Anti-Semitism?
Sue: Oh, yes. Wasn’t that the prejudice against Jews?
Sally: Yes, it was.
(Bob and Jane our now very close.)
(Camera pans from Sally and Sue over to Bob and Jane... Sees them together and immediately pans away and back to Sally and Sue.)
(Bob decides to join conversation again.)
Bob: EXCUSE ME!!
Jane: Yes, oh Dimwitted One?
(Jane stares adoringly at Bob.)
Bob: I couldn’t help but want to be in this conversation, and in going with your spirit of talking about political things, did you know that I am a Jew?
Sue: No, I did not.
Bob: Did you also know that my grandparents were two of the first advocates of Zionism?
(Jane clings to Bob lovingly.)
Sally: Interesting.
(Sally says this more because of the way Jane was hanging on Bob, than for what Bob was actually saying.)
Bob: Yes! And by the way, if you three were waiting for the train...
(points hand as if gesturing to train going by)
There it goes!
Here is the real skit, if you care to read it again.
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