Blue in the Face Page #2

Wha... What the...

What's that supposed to mean?

If your fingers were broken, you'd have

an excuse for not callin' Mary last night.

She sat by the phone all night.

She thought somethin' happened.

"Oh, maybe Dennis...

Maybe something happened." Fool!

If you tell her you're gonna meet her,

you come or at least call.

- Wha...

- Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

What are you comin' in here tellin' me...

- I was hopin' I'd bump into you, to be honest.

- No, let me fin...

What are you comin' in here, tellin' me

what to do with my girlfriend?

- Your girlfriend?

- I think that...

If you cared an ounce about Mary, you would

not let her sit there all night waiting for you.

Mary and I have an understanding.

See, I work for a living.

- She didn't act like she understood anything last night.

- I don't know what you do.

I know what you do. You spend ten hours

a day standing around a diner, making 25...

- I work for a living. I have a schedule, I have people...

- A schedule?

The Knicks game's at 8:00. That means at

7:
00 you're out there with the tickets.

- That's a schedule?

- It's a schedule. It's a job.

- It's where I have to be. It's something she understands.

- And what is this?

What are you doin' even like deciding

wh-what she needs to think, what l...

Wh-What are you gettin'

in my sh*t for?

I don't give a sh*t

what you do with your life.

- Do what you like. But leave my sister...

- Then shut up about it.

- In one piece.

- Then shut up about it! Why you come in here...

- These... This place... Don't touch me.

- I don't like to see my sister...

How 'bout you don't touch me at all, okay?

Keep your greasy diner f***in' fingers off me.

- What?

- You know, I had...

- Where do you come off?

- I spent a year listening to Phil, my good friend...

You know Phil. I spent a f***in' year

listening to him b*tch about you.

A year! And now you're gonna tell me

how to run my relationship?

- You're gonna tell me what I should do to my girlfriend, or shouldn't do?

- I'm asking...

I believe you come... Y-Y-You... Phil left you.

I think that was the case, right?

- A-Am I mistaken about that?

- I don't think that was the sequence of events.

I think he left... Well, no.

What was, then? What, you left him?

No, I don't think so.

I don't think so! No. He left you.

- You know why he left her? Frigid. Frigid.

- I'm glad you're an ex...

That's why. Frigid.

Nothin'. Nothin'! Nothin'! Nothin'!

- F*** you!

- Ice b*tch. Ice b*tch.

F*** you, you bastard!

I taught him handball, and he's my best

opponent because the score's always tied.

We don't fight at home

because we fight on the court.

I'm talkin' about drop-dead fights.

I won't give.

I'll die. I'll fall down on that court

before I give him a point.

And then he tries

to harass me on, you know.

He said, "Oh! Now," he said,

"I'm gonna get serious."

And every time he does that,

I kick his butt.

What the f*** you come in here

doin' this sh*t for?

These are my friends. You're telling

him how to run his business!

These are my friends. What the hell

you comin' in here tellin' my friends...

- Dennis, come on.

- No! F*** you. F*** you!

- All right, I'll just go out.

- Just forget about it.

- What we... What were you yelling about?

- Is that what this is about?

- You guys sit around here and talk all day this trash?

- Nah. No.

I'm sorry. I started it.

Believe me, I know I started it.

- Nobody talks about you.

- Hmm.

Wh-What were you

yelling about?

- Things we shouldn't've been yelling about.

- You want a hug?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

Get right in there, Jimmy.

- Do you feel better?

- Yeah, a lot better.

- You're not rigid anymore?

- No, no. Not rigid.

I get rigid sometimes.

Yeah.

Like the Indian over there.

- Yeah?

- Yeah. I, I stand over there, get rigid.

Auggie says that, uh...

He says that first of all, you...

He says first of all,

you like somebody.

And, um, and then

you kiss 'em.

Then after you kiss 'em,

uh, you do the dirty.

Yeah. Yeah, doin' the dirty.

Yeah. He says,

and after that, uh...

then you find out if, uh,

you can fall in love with 'em.

And if you fall in love with 'em,

you marry somebody else.

Hey. Hey!

- Hey, Dot.

- Hi.

- How are you, kid?

- Well, I'm just great. I'm just great.

Can I have gum?

Everything's real f***in' great.

What brings you

to sunny Brooklyn?

I just drove in. I wanted to talk to ya,

if I can talk to ya.

Can I talk to ya?

Do you have a minute?

- You caught me at a bad time. I'm taking inventory.

- Ooh, a minute.

A minute.

I'm so f***ing pissed off!

Goddamn it, I'm so f***ing

pissed off at Vinny. I just...

I just wanted to talk to you about it.

I don't know why I want to talk to you about it.

But you know him.

I don't know.

- I don't know him.

- What happened?

He just drives me out of my

f***in' mind. You know what I mean?

He promised me that he was gonna take me to

Las Vegas. You heard about that and everything.

Then at the last minute

of course, another time, he pulls out.

And he says, "We're gonna postpone it."

Or cancel it. Whatever the f*** he said.

- But I'm not goin'. He's not goin' with me, anyway.

- Yeah?

And I'm mad because

I was looking forward to it.

I really wanted to go.

I've been wanting to go my whole life.

But instead of being able to go there,

what did I do? I sat there washing dishes...

making tuna fish casserole for 15 years,

and I don't get to go to Las Vegas.

And I'm pissed,

and I can't get on this chair!

Dot, baby, he must've had

a good reason for canceling.

He doesn't have a good reason.

There is no good reason.

There's a million reasons,

but none of them are good.

I need to have some excitement.

I wanted to go...

you know, where there's things

happening at night...

after 6:
00.

- How about your bed?

- Ha.

- Like I said, that's why

I want to go to Las Vegas.

- Come on!

- Come on? You don't know.

- So the guy, one time he broke a promise.

- It isn't one time!

It's every time.

It's 15 years' worth of times.

It's not one time. If it was one time,

do you think I'd be this upset?

If it was one time, I'd be like,

"Oh, that's okay. That's okay, Vinny."

But it's always.

We never do anything fun!

I'm a fun girl.

- Can I really talk to you? I mean, really talk to you?

- Of course, Dot.

- Well, he's a... I don't know.

- Whoa. Whoa.

- Hey, Violet. How are you?

- Hi, Dot.

- Hi.

- You know Dot. Dot, Violet.

- Yeah. Hi, Violet.

- Hi, Dot.

- What's doin', baby?

- Well, I come... You make it clearer, okay?

I come to tell you

that Saturday night...

you and me, chicky-chicky,

dancey-dancey, remember, okay?

You're goin' dancin', huh?

Well, don't cancel.

- I'll see you later.

- Okay, listen. Listen, just...

- Don't cancel, though. Don't let him cancel.

- We don't cancel.

- He don't cancel with me.

- Vinny doesn't cancel either. Vinny's not...

Don't gimme your sh*t. I'll see you later.

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