Paul Palandjian

The diner scene is a classic and once of my favorite movie scenes of all time; Below is the dialog between an increasingly irritated waitress (Lorna Thayer) and Jack Nicholson’s character, Bobby….too good. Try renting an old movie once in a while…no fancy photography, plain old good scripts and great acting from an era gone bye in movies:

Bobby tries to order breakfast in a diner:

Bobby: I’d like a plain omelet no potatoes tomatoes instead, a cuppa coffee and wheat toast

Waitress: No substitutions

Bobby: What do you mean? You don’t have any tomatoes?

Waitress: Only what’s on the menu. You can have a #2, plain omelet, comes with cottage fries and rolls.

Bobby: I know what it comes with but it’s not what I want.

Waitress: I’ll come back when you make up your mind.

Bobby: Wait a minute, I have made up my mind. I’d like an plain omelet, no potatoes on the plate, a cuppa coffee and a side order of wheat toast.

Waitress: I’m sorry, we don’t have any side orders of toast. It’s a muffin or a coffee roll.

Bobby: What do you mean you don’t make side orders of toast. You make sandwiches don’t you?

Waitress: Would you like to talk to the manager?

Bobby: You’ve got bread and a toaster of some kind?

Waitress: I don’t make the rules.

Bobby: Okay, I’ll make it as easy for you as I can. I’d like an omelet plain and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.

Waitress : A #2, chicken sal sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?

Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven’t broken any rules.

Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.