Best Day Ever Page #4

50 is a phase.

This is the great time

of life, in your 50's.

Because you have this background.

Half a century of background.

Now you can take what you learned

and put it into real use.

We're talking about your career.

This should be the highlight

of your career time.

It should be.

And I know it probably will be

if you got your act together.

50 is irrelevant.

78 is irrelevant.

30 is irrelevant.

And 40 is irrelevant.

That's all.

Just stages.

In our life, that's all.

Oh god, you guys get me going

on stuff like this. Cramp.

What am I going to do with you?

I'm going to hit you with my

purse, that's what I want to do.

But I love you, you know that.

And I'm so glad you chose

me to be your friend.

It's the best thing in the world.

Well, I'm never getting old.

Sorry, I don't really do jokes.

I don't know.

To be honest, I never really

minded getting older.

I made peace with the very simple

truth that one day I'll die.

No real way of changing that.

You know, Ace, like you said.

I'm in my... uh...

I'm in my 30's.

I'm in my 30's phase.

I'm right in the middle of that.

It's been good so far.

I'm pretty lucky in that I

have a pretty teriffic family.

I know that no matter what,

I'm going to always be happy-

Of which one member is sitting

right in front of me.

I have as good as a cousin

as I could ever hope for.

Yeah.

But... I don't know... I mean...

I guess if worse comes to worse, I

could just marry a videogame.

That's pretty much the

definition of my happiness.

Who knows, David.

Maybe there's a greater

purpose in your life.

Maybe you just don't know it yet.

And it's right in front of you.

David!

David?

Happy Birthday!

Hey... uh...

I...

I didn't know if I should come by.

It's your house.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's just... I want you to stay here.

Until... uh...

Us.

If there's a future.

Yeah.

So, uh...

How are things?

Alright. Yeah?

I guess.

I've been doing a lot of thinking.

Oh yeah? You know what? Me too!

Yeah, I've been doing a lot of thinking.

Yeah, umm.. I mean.. Look...

It was wrong of me to say some of those

things to you. I get that. I know.

If you want to eat junk food...

I shouldn't pick on you.

And I should support you.

Your career choices.

I know... maybe sometimes...

you can be a little too sensitive...

but that's...

I don't think I'm too sensitive.

And even if I am...

I just want

to be sure, sometimes,

that my life is the one I want

with the person I want.

You know, Greg, I have busted my ass for

years

to make something of my life.

I'm not sure sometimes if I'm doing

it right, but shouldn't that be okay?

If I talk it out. If I'm allowed to

express my thoughts and my feelings.

Yeah, fine. Look, listen... that's great.

I want you to do that,

and if you want me...

I can be that for you.

Just.

Just give me another chance.

How about we have your

birthday dinner together.

Just the two of us.

Tomorrow night.

I'll give you a break from me tonight.

Tomorrow can be you and me.

Alone.

I have to think about things.

Think about it.

Eh? Eh?

Maybe there is hope for us.

Yeah, that's all I'm asking.

Come on.

You know, I'm really not as bad as

your friend James makes me out to be.

Besides...

Once you and I get worked out...

Maybe you and I can figure out

how to get you back to school...

and then work on a new career.

Improve on your life a little bit.

Yeah.

Take away some of that insecurity

that you have. You know?

I know you aren't as happy as you could be.

You just need to make some changes.

Oh, boy.

Well.. I'd better get going.

It's up early, and back

to they gym before work.

Hey, Greg...

You really had me there.

That you really care about me, my

life, all of things you said...

I think what you want is someone who...

you can show off.

Someone you can take home to mom and dad.

Someone who is pretty and well-built.

and all scrubbed up and...

your equal.

But that person isn't me.

What are you saying?

I like who I am.

I like that I was raised by my

mom and my oakie grandparents.

I like that I come from a good upbringing.

You know, maybe we didn't have

everything, but I had what I needed.

You'd never want to take

me home to your parents.

I'm not from the right side of the tracks.

You know, maybe I don't make enough

money, but maybe I never will.

Maybe I'll always like fried baloney

sandwiches and walks in the country.

At the end of the day I

can live with my choices.

I need to make the right choice...

."about us.

You're saying no?

I'll stay with James until I

get this figured out and...

No no no no, it's fine, it's fine.

Just stay here, whatever.

A week, two weeks, it's fine.

So I moved to Oregon,

for a year to help take

care of my grandfather.

Wound up living there for three years.

Wrote a few of my scripts there.

In the cold of winter.

I had no friends, no social life.

Just me and my dog.

I was glad to do it. Glad to help

my grandpa through his final years.

It humbles you fast when you

see how fast life goes.

When we all end up in the

same position when we're old.

You were really great to do that.

A lot of people would have

never even gotten involved.

My parents were really great

to me and my sisters.

I was just a happy kid playing videogames.

Other than wanting us get good

grades in school and be good people,

They never pressured us to do

anything that didn't make us happy.

Maybe I should have worried more about

the future, or had bigger goals.

I'm basically happy.

When I was twelve, my dad came to me

and said that we were moving again.

He had a new job, so we

had to move to the next

town over and change schools.

The whole thing.

We used to have this cool,

blue Chevy van, 1980's model.

One day, on his way to the

plastics factory, the drive

train broke, so he called to

say that he would be late.

So, after three years

with the company...

- Perfect job record -Never missed a day.

- Never called in late -Never was sick.

The d*ckhead called him and said

to not even bother coming in.

He always felt bad that

he was just a worker bee.

He always wanted more for us.

After seeing how my dad never did

much with his life... I wanted more.

He called me a dreamer,

told me to get real.

Get a job, any job.

Making movies won't pay the bills.

You should be proud of what you have done.

It's more than most people.

It seems like you have really busted

your ass for all of these years.

Never expected or wanted to get rich.

I just wanted to do what I love.

Aren't you doing just that?

Make a movie every year or so,

live the life the way you want?

So your plan didn't take you to

be a big time Hollywood director.

OK, so you're an Indie film maker, with

some really good films under your belt.

I mean, hey, most good films

come from guys like you.

Oh, um... I should probably get going.

You probably want to get to bed.

Oh, no no! I'm going to be up for hours.

I stay up to one or two in the

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