Joe: I’ve had an idea
Larry: (PAUSE) Oh?

Joe rolls his eyes.

Joe: (PAUSE) Yeah.   We’re going to open a ninety nine cents shop.

Larry: Oh…  Oh!  (PAUSE) Oh….

Joe: A shop where everything costs ninety nine cents.

Larry: Wow, that’s cheap, Joe!  I’d go there!

Joe: We don’t need to go there, we’ll be running it!

Larry: Yeah… yeah!  We’ll run it, and it’ll get real busy, and we’ll make loads of money, and then… we’ll run into it with the car and loot the place, and start shooting, and then…

Joe slaps Larry around the back of the head

Joe: No, you idiot!  It’s time to go straight… I’m getting too old for this jazz.

Larry: But… oh… oh…  (PAUSE) oh!  We’re going to get a cut of the business right!

Joe: Of course we’re-

Joe gives up trying to explain that part and moves on

Joe: Everything is ninety nine cents.  The schmucks come into the store, and they find some stuff, like that expensive shampoo that the ladies like, for ninety nine cents, and they get all happy, right?  Are you with me here?

Larry nods, pretending that he understands.

Joe: And then they figure, since I’m here, I’ll buy something else for ninety nine cents, as I’m making a killing here, right?  So they pick up some toothpaste, or some toys or whatever.  Now here’s the scam – most of the items in the store actually cost less than ninety nine cents.  I know a guy who “finds” lots of goods from China.  So you see, the customers think they’re making a killing, but it’s actually them who are getting slaughtered, left right and centre.  It’s genius, I tell ya, genius!

Larry: Yeah, you’re a genius, Joe, a genuine genius!  You know, I really wanna try that shampoo!