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EXT: MAIN STREET -- DAY<br />
DELIA pulls the BMW into a parking space in front of the DRY<br />
CLEANERS.<br />
INT: DRY CLEANERS -- DAY<br />
-- A CLOUD OF WHITE STEAM<br />
From the middle of which shine out two YELLOW SNAKE'S EYES.<br />
As the eyes gradually humanize, and the steam dissipates, we see<br />
BEETLE JUICE as an OLD WOMAN, operating a steam press at the back<br />
of the dry cleaning establishment. In tight grey curls, a<br />
flowered dress, and practical shoes, BEETLE JUICE looks like a<br />
old New England shopkeeper.<br />
DELIA comes in the front door, and throws several strange-looking<br />
outfits across the counter, and looks about impatiently.<br />
BEETLE JUICE/OLD WOMAN<br />
Be with in a moment, dear.<br />
DELIA waits two seconds, and then in a voice that is still trying<br />
to be pleasant:<br />
DELIA<br />
I hate to be a nuisance,<br />
but this isn't the only<br />
stop I have to make today.<br />
BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN cuts the power on the steam press, and<br />
comes to the front of the shop between two long mechanized racks.<br />
He is walking with a limp and a cane.<br />
BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN<br />
I'm sorry -- I don't move<br />
as quickly as I used to.<br />
I lost four toes last<br />
winter. Frostbite. You<br />
never think it can happen<br />
to you till it happens<br />
to you.<br />
DELIA does not want to hear more of this story.<br />
DELIA<br />
I have to have these by<br />
Saturday.<br />
BEETLE JUICE examines the avant-garde outfits.<br />
BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN<br />
They are dresses,<br />
aren't they, dear?<br />
DELIA<br />
(Wondering if that was a dig)<br />
You know how to take care<br />
of material like this, don't<br />
you?<br />
BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN<br />
I've been running this place<br />
for twenty-six years, ever<br />
since Dad died. Dad was my<br />
second husband. He had a<br />
heart attack on Arbor Day.<br />
He was planting that big<br />
spruce in front of...<br />
DELIA<br />
Do you deliver?<br />
BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN<br />
I'll bring them out myself.<br />
EXT: MAIN STREET -- DAY<br />
Piloted by the fuming DELIA, the BMW screeches away from the dry<br />
cleaners. Halfway down the block, the BMW scatters an entire<br />
troupe of Brownies.<br />
INT: DRY CLEANERS -- DAY<br />
BEETLE JUICE / OLD WOMAN stands behind the counter, his old<br />
woman's face a death mask, with YELLOW SNAKE'S EYES embedded it.
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