The scene opens with a flashback to a time when the narrator was a young man and a woman were waiting for him in the park. The narrator tells us that he used to have a crush on one of the women, but she was too young to be in love with him, so he left her and went off on his own. Now, he tells us, he's trying to be himself again. He's not sure how he'll do it, but he doesn't want to be a failure. He just wants to be his own man. He tells the narrator that it's really hard not to be interested in something. He says that he'd rather be a good boss than a bad one. He also says that his job as a boss is to get his subordinates to do what he wants them to do. He compares the two of them and says that when he was younger, he would get the younger woman to give him a "carrot" in front of her and a "rod" behind her. The older woman would have to wait for the younger one to do the same thing. The younger woman would give the older woman a "sticker" in the front and the sticker in the back. The old woman would then have to stand in front and wait for her younger female subordinates to give her a "cricket." The narrator says that's how he got to be the man he is today, and the older