Cordoba Scene

Setting: A small plaza before a church in Cordoba, Spain. The center of the plaza is taken up by a large, heavily decorated fountain. Water spits out from carved stone fish around the perimeter. The water, presumably, is recycled, and after falling into the pool, is sucked back up to re-emerge from the mouth of each fish.

A older man approaches the fountain, near which a young man sits pensively. The older man is holding a long bamboo tube, at the end of which is connected a small funnel. He also carries a plastic bag, of the type which one receives at a grocery store.

He places the long tube near the mouth of one of the stone fish, holding the plastic bag near the end of the tube. He fills the bag with the fountain water.

Young Man: You are grabbing water from the fountain?

Older Man: Yes.

Young Man: Why?

Older Man: To drink of course.
(the phrase is spoken as if it were completely normal to do what he is doing)

The older man leaves the fountain, carrying his heavily filled plastic bag, and enters the house from which he had earlier departed. The young man looks on strangely.