Between Us Page #7

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You should've thought of that

before you called him back here.

I called him back here

because of you.

Hey! Hey! Come on!

Stop. It's gross.

What? Kiss your wife.

She needs it.

- I'm going. Does anyone want anything?

- Um...

[CARLO] I'll go. I'll go.

Just let me tip the kid.

- No.

- No, no, no, no.

It's fine. Why not?

Because it was my idea...

- Your cheapness.

- It's fine. Look, here's a 20.

Only you would do some sh*t like that...

call me cheap in front of my friends.

Cheap.

Excuse me.

- I'll call him back, tell him not to come.

- And embarrass yourself again?

She's mad at me.

[SARCASTIC CHUCKLE]

You think?

[CARLO] She say

anything to you before?

Sh-She asked

if I was happy.

Did she say

she was unhappy?

Is she unhappy?

# [GUITAR]

# [MAN VOCALIZING,

GUITAR CONTINUES]

# [CONTINUES]

That wasn't fair.

They might be unhappy, but it

wasn't fair to put us through that.

# [GUITAR, MAN VOCALIZING

CONTINUE] Oh, no.

[CHUCKLING]

I can't sleep with that. Go

ask them to turn it down.

What? I can't sleep with that.

Can you?

No... I don't want to... You ask

them to turn it d... What?

# [CONTINUES]

Hey, guys?

You seriously want me

to ask them?

Yes.

Okay.

Guys? Could you turn

the music down, please?

# [CONTINUES]

Guys, could...

# [STOPS]

Thank you.

Sober or not, we're getting the

hell out of here in the morning.

Do you love me?

Of course I do.

Shh, shh, shh, shh.

[SNIFFLING]

Hey, that had nothing

to do with us.

[CRYING] Just hold me. Okay?

We are not

like them.

[SNIFFLES]

[BEEPING]

[GRACE] I'm just gonna sit here,

'cause I need to calm down.

[CARLO] You're just gonna

sit there in the dark?

I do it all the time.

I sit,

and I drink my tea,

and I think.

And I watch you

sleep.

[EXHALES]

And then

when I get drowsy,

I put my tea down...

and I grope my way

to the bed.

And you groan.

And I say, "Shh."

And I think about...

how I like to watch you

watching me...

watch you shave.

Or how you sometimes sit at the bar

during my restaurant shifts...

and watch the stockbrokers

flirt with me.

Or how I sometimes sneak out at 3:00

in the morning to buy you flowers...

because

they're cheaper then.

[CARLO] And how you leave 'em on

the kitchen table for me to see...

when I wake up.

[GRACE]

They're not like us.

They don't understand

each other.

How could two people...

treat each other

like that...

if they really understood each other,

if they really loved each other?

How could that happen?

I love you.

You do?

Mm-hmm.

I love you too.

[HORN HONKING]

[HORNS HONKING]

[WHISPERS]

Jesus Christ.

[CARLO]

Oh, she's furious with me.

[JOEL] Why wouldn't she take a 20?

She's stubborn.

Well, so am I. Okay?

Why don't you call that guy?

[LAUGHS] I want you...

Send him back here.

I want... I want...

I want two more milk sha...

I want chocolate milk shakes,

and I will pay. Call the guy.

He's on his way anyway. You want a chocolate

shake? Yes. Two more chocolate shakes.

- Go ahead, ca... You want me to call him?

- I got it. I got it.

[BEEPING] [CHUCKLING

] Ridiculous.

[QUIETLY]

Let's go.

- Hello. Yes, this is 605...

- [MOUTHING WORDS]

Yes, I am calling again.

We'd like two more milk shakes.

Chocolate.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Appreciate it.

Apparently he left the diner already

and they're gonna call him back.

- [GROANS] - Oh, God, no. Call them back.

Tell them we can't do it.

I am not calling that man back.

You're crazy. No.

- Jesus, we better tip this kid after what

he put him through. - He's not a kid.

What do you mean?

You said, "Tip this kid,"

and he's not a kid.

What is he?

He's an old man.

What? Yeah. [CHUCKLING]

He's an old Mexican man.

An old Mexican man?

And you didn't tip him?

[LAUGHING]

- Well, how old is he?

- I don't know... 50, 60.

Sixty? He's, what...

He's probably 40.

He's got gray hair.

Probably didn't age well.

Of course he's not aging well. The

guy makes three cents an hour.

[GROANS] For real? Are

you gonna lay into me now?

I got an idea. I got a

hundred-dollar bill in my wallet.

Stop.

Let's give it to him.

Stop it.

What? Why?

It's patronizing.

Why is it patronizing?

Because it is. Now put it away.

Wait a minute.

Guy makes no money, has no education,

doesn't speak the language.

Why does it have to

be patronizing?

Why am I an awful person? Nine out

of 10 people wouldn't think of it.

10 out of 10 people

wouldn't do it.

Why... Come on!

A little generosity, huh?

It's not like we didn't get

any help along the way, Sharyl.

- Where would we be without your dead

grandparents? - [DOOR OPENS]

Before, I was angry.

Now I'm fuming.

He's f***ing ancient, and you

sent him back for more shakes?

[CARLO] No. They

wanted more shakes.

- It's boiling outside!

- Grace, we ordered the shakes.

- They wanted more shakes. - That poor

old man traipsing about for your whims.

- Where is he?

- They ordered the shakes.

He's gone. I paid him and tipped him.

No! I wanted to tip him.

[GRACE] Oh! Thank

you, but I got it.

Jesus, I said I would tip him.

It's done.

All right. Take the money. No.

Come on. Take it.

Are you kidding me?

- No.

- That's a hundred dollars.

I know.

Did my husband

ask you for money?

- No. What? No.

- I didn't ask him for anything.

You did, didn't you?

[QUIETLY]

Thanks.

[DOOR CLOSES]

He asked you for money?

I'm not going home with this hundred-

dollar bill. I'm calling that diner.

That guy is coming back here

and I'm going to tip him $100.

- What?

- I'm calling... Where's the redial?

- Can we just go back to the hotel, Joel?

- Hello? Yeah, hi.

- Uh, I don't know the ad... What's

the address? - How the f*** do I know?

I don't know the address. We just had the

milk shakes. Yeah, yeah, could you, uh...

Uh, uh, could... Oh, Jesus Christ.

He hung up on me.

Yeah, hi. Please don't hang up on me.

Yeah, thanks. Would you...

I'd like you to send

that old man back here.

'Cause I'd like to tip him

a lot of money.

Yeah, okay. Well, do that then.

That's terrific. Absolutely.

Great. Okay.

Thank you so much.

He didn't believe me,

so I ordered four more shakes.

- How much money did he ask you for?

- I don't know. He didn't say.

He's always been irresponsible, Joel.

Never managed his money.

You know that. Let's not judge.

Who knows what happened to 'em.

It's not a mystery. He's been in

debt ever since we've known him.

I was in debt once.

And we took care of it.

Well, some people

aren't as lucky, Sharyl.

Is that what this is about? Luck? Your

luck or his luck? We're not gonna fight.

Showing your generosity by tipping

a stranger a hundred dollars?

He's not a stranger.

He's a delivery guy.

[WHISPERING] We're not

floating in money, Joel.

No one admits they're floating in money. If

they did, they'd actually have to feel guilty.

Guilty?

We earned that money. Come on. Do not

start with the meritocracy line.

I don't want to talk politics.

You know we inherited money.

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