Subway

(A subway station. Not sure if it is New York City or not, but the signs are in English. Posters for the summer blockbusters and graffiti cover the walls. Somewhere a starving artist strums an acoustic guitar.)

(At rise: One hundred people wait for the next train. People talk on their cell phones, look at their watches, read their newspapers, talk with their friends. A train approaches, blocking the audience's view of the one hundred people. Doors open, and one hundred other people get off the train, while most of the one hundred original people get on. During this entering and exiting, the following scene takes place, but because the train is there the audience cannot see them, and because the other actors are talking and the train is so loud, the audience cannot hear the following dialogue.)

MAN 1: Excuse me.
MAN 2: Sorry. (Seeing MAN 1's book, to himself.) Oh, I'm reading that.

END

(NOTE: MAN 1 can be played by a woman or a man, with appropriate pronoun changes to the dialogue. But MAN 2 MUST BE PLAYED BY A MAN)