Ernie: `Hey Bert, it`s--`
Bert: `-Aak-Eek-Aak!--`
Ernie: `--time for our checker game.` (Ernie looks apologetic.)
Bert: `Oh Ernie, you scared me! I thought you weren`t here.`
Ernie: `Well maybe I`m not then.`
Bert: `What do you mean?`
Ernie: `You`re usually right about most things, Bert.`
Bert: (modest) `Welllllllll ...`
Ernie: `And if you think I`m not here ... then maybe I`m not!`
Bert: `Good! If you`re not here, Ernie, then I can go back to reading my book.`
(Bert does go read for about two seconds, as Ernie starts to get worried.)
Ernie: `But the question is ... If I`m not here ...`
Bert: (to himself) `Oh no ...`
Ernie: (worried) `... then ... Where Am I?`
Bert: `It`s going to be one of those days.`
(Ernie gets a pair of binoculars and looks out the window with them)
Bert: `Ernie ... (irritated) Ernie, what are you doing?`
Ernie: `I`m looking for me, Bert! (pause) I thought I might be out taking a walk on Sesame Street, but I don`t see me anywhere. (pause) Then if I`m not out on Sesame Street ---- I must be Lost!!`
Bert: `I don`t believe this.`
Ernie: `I`m lost! (he`s really upset by now) Out there, all alone, wandering through some spooky forest, or down some lonesome road ... This is terrible! (starts to cry) I`ll never see me again!`
Bert: `Ernie!`
Ernie: (sniff) `I miss me!`
Bert: `Ernie, will you stop that! Now, I can prove to you that You Are Here. Now, get our hand mirror. (Ernie picks it up.) Now, what`s that?`
Ernie: `Oh, it`s a mirror.`
Bert: `No, no, I mean look inside!`
Ernie: (looks in the mirror) `I see ... me, Bert! That`s me in the mirror, Bert!`
Bert: `Right! And if you see yourself in the mirror , that means--`
Ernie: `That means I must be Here! Gee, thanks, Bert! (smiles at the reflection) I missed me! (Ernie then goes back to Bert, tapping him on the shoulder as before) Hey Bert. it`s time--`
Bert: `Aak-Eek-Aak!`
Ernie: ` ... for our checker game! I`m here!`
Bert: (angry) `Ernie, we can not play checkers!`
Ernie: `Why not, Bert? I`m here!`
Bert: (angry) `That`s right, you`re here, Ernie! BUT I`M NOT!` (marches out and slams door, leaving Ernie rather surprised.)
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