The Saddest Trip Ever

==Characters==
Nat PetersonShubieSusieBaby BillyNancy Suzy FishFrank FishbowlIsabelSadie RechidMartha Smith (mentioned)MotherSonSeahorseFrench Narrator
==Transcript==
(Scene cuts to Nat and Shubie walking down the street while pushing Baby Billy in a baby carriage) Nat and Shubie walk past Sadie who is getting her mail.
Sadie: "Hi Nat! Don't you look handsome on this beautiful Friday evening!"
Nat: "Hi Sadie!" Nat and Shubie continue walking down the street. Nat and Shubie walk towards Frank and Nancy's house and see Frank and Nancy putting luggage in their boat.
Shubie: "Hi Frank! Hi Nancy!"
Nancy: "Oh, hi Shubie! How are you doing today?"
Shubie: "Good! Nat and I are just going on a little walk with Billy. What are you two up to?"
Nancy: "We're just loading up the boat for our trip. One of my coworkers invited us to stay at her cabin in the Kelp Forest this weekend. Come on, Isabel! We're going to be leaving soon!" Isabel runs outside.
Isabel: "I'm coming, Mom!"
Shubie: "Ooo, that sounds like fun!"
Nancy: "It sounds more fun than it really is. When we stayed at her cabin last year, we got lost in the forest for three days because Frank forgot to bring the map on our hike." Frank rolls his eyes.
Frank: "A lot of good that would've done us! Everything in that forest looks the exact same!"
Nancy: "Yeah that's true so we're really not looking forward to going back this year."
Shubie: "Oh, I'm sure you'll have a great time! I've always wanted to take my family on a trip to the Kelp Forest!"
Nancy: "Really? Why don't you and Nat spend the weekend at the cabin then?"
Shubie: "Really?!"
Nancy: "Sure! Here's the keys. Just make sure to give them back to me on Monday." Nancy hands Shubie the keys to the cabin.
Shubie: "Wow! Thanks, Nancy! You're a truly great friend."
Nat: "Are you sure we should go on this trip, Shubie? I kinda wanted to spend some time at home and relax this weekend."
Shubie: "Oh come on, Nat! It'll be fun, trust me! Now let's get ready for the trip." Nat and Shubie walk away.
Frank: "Wow, I can't believe you got someone to take our place at the cabin."
Nancy: "Eh, I should've figured. Shubie finds everything exciting. Now we can spend this weekend snuggled up on the couch watching romantic comedies!"
(Scene cuts to Nat, Shubie, Susie and Baby Billy in their boat the next morning)
Shubie: "Do we have everything?"
Nat: "Yep, we're all ready to go!"
Shubie: "Great! Let me get the directions on my phone. What? 6 hours?! It normally doesn't take 6 hours to get to the Kelp Forest. Oh, it looks like they closed down one of the roads for construction so now we have to take the Intertidal Seaway to get there. Barnacles."
(Scene cuts to Nat driving on the Intertidal Seaway) Nat approaches a rest stop.
Shubie: "Does anyone need to use the bathroom?" Nat and Susie shake their heads. Nat drives past the rest stop.
Susie: "Mom?"
Shubie: "Yes, Susie?"
Susie: "I have to go to the bathroom."
Shubie: "What?! I just asked if you needed to go! Well we're not turning around. You'll have to wait until we get to the next rest stop."
Nat: "Uh, Shubie?"
Shubie: "Yes?"
Nat: "Look at the sign." Nat points at a sign that says Next Rest Stop: 50 Miles. Shubie sighs.
Shubie: "Take that U turn and go back to the rest stop."
(Scene cuts to Shubie standing outside of the women's bathroom at the rest stop) Shubie checks her watch.
Susie(inside the bathroom): "Mom, it smells in here."
Shubie: "Well hurry up and go then!"
(Scene cuts to the Peterson's back on the Intertidal Seaway) Nat notices Shubie typing on her phone.
Nat: "What are you doing, Shubie?"
Shubie: "Oh, just texting the girls. Going on a weekend getaway to the Kelp Forest to spend some quality time with Nat and the kids. So excited! Martha says 'Have fun!'. Huh, well that's odd. Sadie disliked my message."
Nat: "She probably did it by mistake."
Shubie: "Yeah, probably. Hey, what does that sign say up ahead? Seahorse crossing?" Nat laughs.
Nat: "Well, that can't be right. There's no way seahorses cross the Intertidal Seaway." Nat and Shubie laugh.
Susie: "Dad, watch out! There's a seahorse crossing the road!"
Nat: "Holy fishpaste!" Nat swerves his boat off the highway to avoid hitting the seahorse. Nat's boat drives over some bumpy rocks and begins to bounce up and down. Shubie notices that the boat is headed towards a tree.
Shubie: "Nat! Get back on the highway!" Nat swerves back onto the highway.
Nat: "Phew! Well that was a close one!"
Shubie: "Yeah, too close."
(Scene cuts to the Peterson's later on in their journey)
Susie: "Mom, I'm bored."
Shubie: "Here, do you want to play Angry Clams on my phone?" Shubie hands Susie her phone.
Susie: "Hey, what the… I can't play because your phone doesn't have any reception!" Shubie grabs her phone.
Shubie: "Well that can't be right. Oh yeah, we must be in a dead zone. So much for unlimited service."
Susie: "Well what am I supposed to do now?"
Shubie: "Relax, Susie. We won't be in the boat for too much longer. We'll be at the cabin in an hour."
Susie: "A whole hour?! That's so long! This is the saddest trip ever."
Nat: "Hey! I know what we can do! When I was a kid, my family would always sing songs during long road trips!"
Susie: "That sounds lame."
Nat: "No, it was fun! Come on, everyone! Join in! 99 bottles of …" Shubie covers Nat's mouth.
Shubie: "Nat, don't you think that song is a little inappropriate for the kids?"
Nat: "What? I was gonna say pop."
Shubie: "Still, the implications are there. Why don't you pick another song?"
Nat: "Ok! She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes! She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes!"
Susie: "This is so embarrassing."
(Zooms out to a woman and her son driving in the boat next to Nat's)
Kid: "Hey, mommy, look at that weird guy in the boat over there!"
Mother: "Mommy's watching the road right now." Nat drives past them.
(Scene cuts to a truck hauling a trailer filled with nails) One of the nails falls out of the truck and lands on the highway.
(Scene cuts back to the Peterson's)
Nat: "She'll be coming 'round the mountain! She'll be coming 'round the mountain! She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes!"
Shubie: "Nat, I love you, but singing really isn't one of your best talents." Billy giggles and claps.
Nat: "Well at least someone enjoys my singing. She'll be riding six seahorses when she comes! She'll be riding six seahorses when she comes!" Shubie sighs. Nat's boat runs over the nail from the truck which causes one of the tires to pop.
Shubie: "What was that?"
Susie: "I think Dad's terrible singing popped one of the tires." Shubie leans over the side of the boat and sees that one of the tires is flat.
Shubie: "Oh, shoot. One of the tires is flat. Nat, pull over." Nat pulls over to the side of the highway. The mother and her son drive past them.
Kid: "Hey, mommy, it's that weird guy again! Why are they on the side of highway?"
Mother: "They mustn't have been watching the road." The mother and her son drive away.
Nat: "So what do we do now?"
Shubie: "This won't be too bad. We just have to change this tire with the spare one in the back."
Nat: "Oh yeah, about that…" Shubie opens up the trunk.
Shubie: "Hey, where's the spare?"
Nat: "Um, I kind of left it at home."
Shubie: "You what?!"
Nat: "There wasn't enough space in the trunk for all our stuff so I took out the spare and left it at home. I figured that nothing would happen to the tires since we'd only be gone for two days."
Shubie: "Well that's just great, and my phone still doesn't have service so we can't call for help! We'll have to find the nearest mechanic, but how will we know how far the nearest mechanic is?"
Susie: "There's a mechanic 5 miles from here."
Nat: "How did you know that, Susie?"
Susie: "The sign." Susie points at a sign right next to them. Nat and Shubie look up and see that the sign says Mechanic: 5 miles.
Shubie: "Nat, why don't you go to the mechanic and buy a tire. I'll stay by the boat with the kids."
Nat: "Okay." Nat walks away.
French Narrator: "Two hours later."
(Scene cuts to Shubie, Susie and Baby Billy waiting for Nat along the side of the highway) Shubie looks at her watch.
Shubie: "What's taking him so long? At this rate we won't get there until dinner time." Nat walks over to them with a tire.
Nat: "Hey guys! I got the tire!"
Shubie: "Perfect! Let's put it on the boat and we'll be back on the road in no time!"
(Scene cuts to the Peterson's back on the road)
Susie: "Are we almost there yet?"
Shubie: "It shouldn't be too much longer now, Susie. That's weird. The directions say we're still two hours away. That can't be right. Nat, why are you slowing down?"
Nat: "Because of the traffic." Shubie looks up and sees a lot of traffic in front of them.
Shubie: "Oh no! Not rush hour traffic!"
French Narrator: "Two hours later."
(Scene cuts to the Peterson's stuck in traffic)
Susie: "Mom, I'm bored."
Shubie: "We know, Susie. We all are. Hey, the traffic is finally clearing up!"
Nat: "Kelp Forest, here we come! We'll be there in no time." Nat's boat starts to speed up. Suddenly, Nat's boat slows down and comes to a complete stop.
Shubie: "Nat, why are we stopped?"
Nat: "Uh oh."
Shubie: "Uh oh?!"
Nat: "We're out of gas."
Shubie and Susie: "What?!"
Nat: "So what do we do now?"
Shubie: "We'll have to get out and push the boat to the nearest gas station. Susie, you and your brother stay in the car." Nat and Shubie get out of the boat.
(Scene cuts to Nat and Shubie pushing their boat along the side of the highway while Susie and Baby Billy are sitting in the back)
Nat: "Well, at least things can't get any worse." Nat laughs awkwardly.
Shubie: "I can't believe you let the boat run out of gas! Were you not paying attention to the meter? I swear sometimes I feel like I'm married to a complete moron!"
Nat: "Oh, I'm the moron?! Well, at least I didn't force my family to waste an entire weekend on a stupid trip to the Kelp Forest!"
Shubie: "Stupid trip?"
Nat: "Yes, Shubie! None of us want to go on this trip except for you! Susie thinks it's lame and Billy's an infant! I just wanted to relax and watch some sports this weekend, but no! You just had to accept Frank and Nancy's offer to stay in this dumb cabin for the weekend. Why do you think they even offered it to us? It's because they didn't want to go either! Now we've spent the whole day driving to this stupid cabin. We almost crashed, got a flat tire, and now we're out of gas!"
Shubie: "All of those things are your fault!"
Nat: "Well none of them would've happened if you didn't force us to go on this stupid trip!"
Shubie: "I can't believe you’re blaming this on me! That's it. I'm not talking to you for the rest of the trip!"
Nat: "Good! Why would I want to talk to someone who thinks I'm a complete moron?"
Susie: "Um, Mom? Dad? I think Billy just had an accident."
(Scene cuts to Nat and Shubie still pushing their boat down the highway) Finally, they reach a gas station.
Nat: "Well, we finally reached a gas station. Do you want me to fill up the boat or am I too much of a moron to do it?"
Shubie: "I said I wasn't talking to you. I'm going to the bathroom. Come on, Susie. I'm sure you probably need to use the restroom too." Shubie grabs Billy and walks over to the restroom. Susie follows after her.
(Scene cuts to Shubie exiting the restroom)
Shubie: "Okay Susie, let's see if your father's done fueling the boat."
Susie: "Mom, look at the sunset." Shubie looks up and sees a gorgeous sunset. 
Shubie: "Wow. I don't think I've ever seen a sunset like this before." A group of clams start singing. Nat walks over to Shubie, Susie and Billy.
Nat: "Alright, the boat has a full tank of gas. Woah, look at the sunset. It's beautiful."
Shubie: "Isn't it? Nat, I'm sorry! You're not a moron. I'm lucky to be married to the smart, kind, caring man that you are. I'm sorry for forcing the family to go on this trip. In the future, I won't force us to do something if you guys aren't interested in it."
Nat: "Shubie, I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have taken my anger out on you. I know you only wanted to go on this trip to spend quality time as a family. It's not your fault that this day turned into a disaster, it's mine. I was an idiot for letting the boat run out of gas and choosing to leave the spare tire at home. I'm lucky to be married to the smart, beautiful, caring woman that you are. I never should've been so nasty towards you."
Shubie: "Oh, Nat." Nat and Shubie kiss.
Susie: "Gross!"
(Scene cuts to the mother and her son driving down other side of the highway) 
Son: "Look at the sunset, Mommy!"
Mother: "Mommy's watching the road right now."
Son: "Hey, it's that weird guy again! Why is he kissing that lady next to the gas station?" The mother looks over and sees Nat and Shubie kissing.
Mother: "That's the power of love." The mother wipes a tear from her eye. The mother and her son drive away.
(Scene cuts to Nat and Shubie giving Nancy the keys to the cabin back on Monday)
Nancy: "So how was the trip?"
Shubie: "We got stuck in the car all day on Saturday and it rained all day on Sunday but…"
Nat: "We had a great time." Nat grabs Shubie's fin. Shubie smiles.
(Scene ends)
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