The Lost Quarter

Number of Participants: 5 or more
Props: None.

Scene: One person acts as a lamppost, shining a flashlight on the ground. Another is groping around in the pool of light. (He's # 1).

A third person enters, sees # 1, and asks: "What are you looking for ?"

# 1: "A quarter that I lost".

He joins # 1 and helps him search. A fourth and fifth enter and repeat the above scene. Finally one of them asks # 1: "Where did you lose the quarter ?"
# 1: (Pointing away) "Over there.

Boy: "Then why are you looking here ?"
# 1: "Because the light is better over here !"

 

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