An Unmarried Woman Page #4

in this little steamer here?

Waiter, can

we have the shrimp with paper?

Bring a couple of Bubble-Up.

- You all right?

- Yeah. I'm fine.

- You sure?

- This is crazy.

- Erica, let's take a walk.

- I feel like I've been

dim-sum-ed out of my mind.

- I think I'm gonna go home.

- You sure?

- Oh, come on!

- I'll take you home.

- Stay awhile.

- No, I really wanna go home.

- Where do you live?

- You go on, Elaine. I live in the East 60s.

- Good, I'll take you home.

- Bye.

- Well, let me take you home.

- Bye-bye!

- I'll see you later. Call you.

- Have a nice time. See you.

- Boy, that's a nervous lady.

- She has a right to be.

I'm divorced.

Married 11 years.

Two children.

My wife remarried.

She's living out on the island...

so I get to see the kids

just about every weekend.

When did you get divorced?

It's been... three years.

It was tough at first.

- You feel very disoriented.

- I know.

Yeah, Hal said you were separated?

What happened?

Oh

My husband left me for a younger woman.

Ha, ha, ha.

He must be out of his mind.

- Are you uncomfortable?

- With you? No.

Why did you move closer to me?

I don't know. L

- I guess I want to be closer to you.

- Don't, Bob! Uh-uh!

- Why not?

- I said so, that's why. I-I don't want you to.

- I didn't do anything!

- But you want to, don't you?

- You're paranoid.

- Do you or don't you?

What?

You'd think I was asking

you to go to bed with me.

I'm just touchy these days.

I'm sorry.

You sure are.

Maybe I am being

less than honest. L

- I'd like to see you again, Erica.

- Oh, I don't think so.

- Why not?

- You seem like a nice man.

It-It's not that.

I'm just I'm not dating.

- Well, what was today?

- Lunch.

Well, lunch is dating

in my neighborhood.

Take a girl to lunch, it's dating.

Uh, you're right. Lunch is dating.

Oh, God. "Dating."

It's a silly word.

You are a very complicated woman.

I'm crazy about you.

You son of a... b*tch.!

Stop the cab! Stop it!

You Stop the cab!

- I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't

- Stop it!

Get out, you son of a b*tch!

- I didn't do anything!

- Just get out!

Just stop it! Will you stop it?

Just pull the f*** over!

Get out!

I don't want to see you!

I didn't do anything.

This is ridiculous.

Just take me home!

Wonderful.

This is a wonderful thing to come home to.

- Get out of here, Phil!

Just get out of my house!

- I'm sorry.

Out! I don't want

to talk about it.

- We didn't do anything.

- You just get out!

- We didn't do anything!

- Here's your coat. You be quiet, Patti!

- No! He's not going to!

- Get out of the door!

- I want him to stay!

- Mrs. Benton Call you tomorrow!

- Patti!

- Mom, what is with you?

Look, you've got

I don't care what you want!

- You can't run my life!

- Oh, goddamn it!

- I hate it here! I don't

want to live here anymore!

- I don't want to live here, either!

- You can't stop me from seeing Phil.

I can! I can stop you

from doing anything I want!

- No, you can't! I'll run away!

- I don't care if you run away.

What did I do that was so wrong?

Just tell me, and I'll understand.

I don't think you would

act like this if your father still lived here.

Act like what?

I wasn't having an orgy or anything!

- You want me to go to the park?

- Hush!

- Get out of the house!

- Okay, I'll go to the park.

- I'll sit on a bench and do it in public.

- Okay, go ahead!

I'd like to see you!

You might as well do it in public!

- You don't have any kind

of feeling about anything!

- Fine! I'll do it!

- I don't know.

- God, what is with you?

I'm sorry.

God. Oh, God.

It's just confusing.

L I'm sorry I screamed at you, Patti.

- I'm sorry.

- It's all right.

I just don't understand

why you get so upset.

- I just can't be your father.

- So just be my mother!

Come here.

Come here, honey.

Call Phil and tell him I'm sorry.

Uh, tell him he can come over.

We can have an orgy.

Maybe he's got a friend for me.

How was your date?

My date? Oh.

We had dim sum. I was almost raped.

- He made a pass?

- Yeah.

I don't see what's wrong with that.

You're beginning

to sound like my date.

- You okay?

- Yeah. Fine.

How 'bout you?

Call Phil.

Okay.

I'm I'm afraid.

I'm frightened, you know.

- Mm-hmm.

- I've never been afraid of anything...

before in my life.

When I was little, I was

I don't know.

I was afraid of

that I was gonna get

my clothes dirty, or...

you know, I was gonna

get bad marks on my report.

U- U-Uhh.

I was afraid when I got my period

for the first time.

You know, l

Well, I got my period...

when I was, uh

when I was 13, you know.

And most of myWell

Some of my friends

Well, my best friend

My best friend

was Karen Fienstein...

and she got her period

when she was 12, you know.

So I thought there was something wrong

with me, because I didn't get my period.

So I had a terrible year

from 12 to 13.

You know, I mean, I-I-I

I thought there was really

something wrong with me.

You know, every time

I went to the bathroom...

I would sort of, you know,

- Check and see if l

Yeah, if I got my period yet.

- And go look.

And, suddenly l

O- Oh, I was wearing

I was wearing these...

dumb little white lace panties...

you know, that my grandmother

had given me for my birthday or some

And, um...

suddenly I felt this...

wet, warm feeling

in my crotch, you know.

And then l

I felt sort of excited, you know.

But then I felt afraid.

I was afraid. I was afraid...

that I was going to get

blood all over the... chair...

all over my pants.

Then the bell rang,

and then the class got up...

and then I saw Karen, you know.

And I smiled, and I winked

at her, and I went like that.

And she came over, and she said,

"What are you smiling about?"

And I said, "I think I got it."

And she said, "Oh, thank God!"

I don't really know why

I'm telling you all this.

- I mean, it doesn't really

- Well.

Those are very scary moments,

and you think a lot about that

when you're a kid. It's natural.

- And what's happening now?

- Everything seems very different.

I'm I'm not able to...

know what's gonna happen.

You know, before I had a sense that...

- life would go on, and

- Yes.

- Now, it's like every day is like, "Whew!"

- Yeah.

What's gonna happen?

And I don't know how to control it.

- And I don't know

- Yeah.

I don't know

I don't know what to do.

Your whole life has been

disrupted, discombobulated.

And... it's a new life right now.

I mean, what can you do? You know,

you can't live my life for me, can you?

No. No. I certainly

can't live your life for you.

It's your life.

But what I can do...

is to explore it with you

and see what's happening now in your life.

Yeah.

Maybe the confusion

that you're feeling now...

will clear up.

I'm pretty sure it will.

I think, right now, it would be

a really good idea if you came twice a week.

But very quickly

we'll move into once a week.

Because it's a lot more

important what you do out there...

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