Hajrie. What are you making?
Veniamin. Pumpkin soup.
Hajrie. Isn’t cutting up the pumpkin tough to do?
Veniamin. It is, and I know one of these days this blade’ll slip into my fingers.
Hajrie. It’s possible. Why don’t you be careful?
Veniamin. I am, but there’ll be a moment when I’m not paying attention, and that’s that.
Hajrie. Sounds like you’ve created a traumatic event for yourself.
Veniamin. But if that’s true, then I would be afraid of chopping pumpkins.
Hajrie. Aren’t you?
Veniamin. I think I need to actually experience the trauma of cutting my hand before I can actually be afraid.
Hajrie. So until then, you’ll be making pumpkin soup.
Veniamin. I wonder how bad it would be.
End. Chopping Pumpkins for Soup