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Tony's a Winner, Scene 2: Nine Forty Two

from Tony's a Winner, an opera in one act by The NWRA House Band

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On the convention Tannoy mic
The airport baggage handler sings.
(Baggage handler enters.)
LARRY GRAYSON: (The following is spoken.) All the things you can remember in the next forty-five seconds are yours, and the forty-five seconds starts now.
BAGGAGE HANDLER: (Nine Forty-Two. Sung.) I’m a baggage handler at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
I drive in from Netherley, it’s about twenty minutes drive.
I’ll have been here three years by this September coming up.
I think the lads had bets on me not even lasting two weeks.
Nine forty-two. Nine forty-two.
SECURITY OFFICER: We can only watch for short periods.
BAGGAGE HANDLER: Nine minutes and forty-two seconds is how long the belt takes
from when you check your bag in ‘till it comes right round to our trucks.
Some of the check in staff sometimes send bags through standing up,
then the bag can jam the belt. So, we call out the engineer.
Nine forty-two. Nine forty-two.
(Lois Laurel and Generation Game Contestant 1 enters.)
CONTESTANT 1: (The following is spoken.) Coffee set, bottles of wine, table lamp, chess set, storage jars, rocking chair, eider down, the camera, the teasmade, the kiddie’s horse, saucepans, coffee maker.
BAGGAGE HANDLER: (Sung.) We take stickers off the bags then put the sticker on a card.
Then put the bags on the truck. Only one handler does each flight.
Each truck carries forty bags. Lads come and drive them to the flight.
We work rotas four days on, two days off, with two early shifts.
Nine forty-two. Nine forty-two.
Nine forty-two, how long it takes.
SECURITY OFFICER: We can only watch for short periods.

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from Tony's a Winner, an opera in one act, released October 12, 2020

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