Daddy and Them Page #2

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- You know all she'll talk about is

your damn ex-boyfriends. - Here we go.

- Who wants to listen to that sh*t in their right mind?

- You hate her, plain and simple.

It ain't gonna take her no hour anyway.

She's flyin' on an airplane.

Flyin' on an airplane?

Now, see there? She can afford

to fly down here on an airplane.

We can't even afford

some damn bologna...

- and candy... dreams or whatever they are.

- Candy corn.

Wait a minute.

We ain't got no airport.

Mm-hmm.

In Little Rock.

Well, yeah, in Little Rock.

That's my point.

She'll be flyin' into Little Rock.

It's the only place to fly into.

She'll done be there.

Honey, she's got somethin' she wants to

talk to us about on the ride up there.

She's gonna get a taxicab in Little Rock

to bring her out here.

Then she's gonna ride up to Little Rock

with us so she can talk to us.

See? Want some candy corn?

- That rash I get.

- Oh, yeah.

Y'all are wired different,

you and your mama.

- There's something off about you. Your common sense is off.

- Honey...

Hey, baby, will you...

Will you rub my foot, while we're

waitin' for Mama and them, with Jergens?

Mama and them who?

Mama and them, Rose.

Rose is comin' too.

She is?

Don't act so damn happy

just 'cause you f***ed her.

You're a sacrilegious person,

you know that?

I've explained

and explained to you.

If it's your girlfriend, you don't call

it f***in'. Now, don't call it f***in'.

You're hurtin' my foot.

So you don't mind ridin' up to Little Rock

all the way in the car with me and Rose?

She is my sister,

and I love her!

I just don't like it

that you f***ed her!

And I call it f***ing,

'cause that's what you did!

Look what you did.

You wanna play

some cards or dominoes?

You know me and dominoes.

I sure do, baby.

- Y'all go to church today, honey?

- It's Saturday, Mom.

- Wha are you gonna do abou work, Claude?

- What do you mean?

Well, what kind of work are you doing

now, Claude? You switch around so much.

How come Uncle Hazel

would rob a liquor store?

Ruby says that you are doin'

some kind of forestry work?

It wasn't a liquor store,

was it, honey?

I'm cuttin' weeds for the county. No,

honey, it was one of them quick-stop marts.

- How come he married a psychiatrist, reckon?

- I thought it was a foot doctor.

- Mm-mmm. Apsychiaris. - She's from

England or something, I believe.

What's the difference between

a psychiatrist and a psychologist?

Well, one of'em can give you dope

and the other one can't.

That's what I heard.

Downers and uppers.

Claude, if you hadn't left

poor Rose...

you'd be with her right now

ridin' to Little Rock.

- Don' her hairdo look good?

- Mama.

I left him.

He didn't leave me.

- Tha ain' he way you old i before.

- Jewel...

in the name of God, please give me

some peace about that.

- I was en years ago.

- Poor thing's had ulcers ever since.

Hello! I'm here!

I happen to be his wife, Mama!

- Ain' you go any manners?

- I didn't mean anything by it, honey.

I was jus braggin'

on your siser's hair.

Would've gotten the color part done too,

except I had to buy these shoes.

What do you think, Claude?

Looks good. What's that? Some kind of

little strawberries or somethin' on it?

Ruby, who was that boy...

that you thought

got you pregnant at camp...

Goddamn it!

I am sick of that sh*t. Ain't you got

somethin' else better to talk about?

It turned out

she wasn't pregnant anyhow.

Sh*t!

Y'all can have it.

I'm jus gonna

ge ou ofhere...

and y'all can drive

o Daddy and hem's...

or go to Nashville,

whatever you wanna do.

I'm gonna go to the bus station at Arkadelphia

and just go on a bus the rest of the way.

Ain't you gonna

go after him?

Not when he's like that.

It won't do no good.

Gets them dead eyes.

You can't talk to him.

If he was mine,

I'd go get him.

- You kiss my ass.

- You gonna drive or you want me to?

If I don't go on a diet and lose

my rear end, I'm gonna kill myself.

Oh, sh*t.

- Figured you'd be in here this time of night.

- Hey.

- You and her have a fight?

- Yeah.

- Need a ride?

- Yeah.

How's it goin', Al?

Who is that?

That's that psychologist

Hazel married.

Hmm.

I wondered

what she looked like.

- I guess that's it, then.

- Mm-hmm.

Yeah, well,

I'm gonna go to bed.

Well, some of y'all wake me up

to eat in the mornin'.

She looks kind of English,

don't she?

Mm-hmm.

Ruby's in there in my room

if you're lookin' for her.

How are you gettin' along,

Alvin?

Oh, I stay nervous

just about all the time.

Yeah, me too.

- Hi.

- Hi, sugar.

Hey, baby.

How come everybody else

is asleep and you're not?

Do you like this color

fingernail polish?

- I can't hardly see it, can you?

- Yeah.

You know, I feel as good

as I've felt in a long time.

That's good, honey.

Boy, Hazel's wife

sure looks English, don't she?

I took a bath

and washed my hair.

I like to sit with an open window

with my hair wet...

fiddle around with little things

like fingernail polish.

- It's like a little hobby, you know?

- Yeah.

I like to be clean,

don't you?

Oh, yeah, sure.

Well, you gotta be clean.

Yeah.

I like to be up when

there ain't nobody else up.

Feels like

the whole world's asleep.

Can't nothin' get you

or bother you, you know?

Well, it seems to me that's

when everything can get you.

That's when folks

get knocked in the head...

and shot and cut up

and everything... at night.

But I don't wanna think about

things like that right now.

So if you're gonna keep talkin' about it,

you're gonna have to sleep on the couch.

I don't think so. Besides that,

that Englishwoman's on the couch.

Oh, yeah.

Ain't you gonna ask me

how I've been?

Well, I thought maybe

you'd ask me how I'd been.

Well, I've had a belly full of gas

all day. That's how I've been.

Oh. Yeah.

Boy, you got

a pretty foot, honey.

Thank you, baby.

You don't reckon we can find

someplace to f*** around here...

where there ain't

nobody layin', do you?

Well, it's a nice night

out tonight.

There's about six or eight car hoods

in the front yard.

- You're so fond of that.

- Yeah, I am.

Plus, I just love the way you look

in the light of the moon.

This ain't the time of the month when it's

easier for you to have a little old baby, is it?

No, I don't think so.

Would you still love me

if I was gonna have a baby...

and got to be

a big fat lady?

Of course I would, baby.

I wouldn't care

what you looked like.

You're my baby.

Plus, it'd be like that

famous quotation, you know:

"There'd be more than

twice of you to love. "

I believe Ben Franklin

or one of'em said it.

Some of them bunch that

signed the constitution.

I never heard that.

How you been, honey?

Fine. You?

It's been a long day.

- Claude.

- Oh, yeah. Well, I guess.

Mama made that little-bitty sausage

for breakfast. Y'all better come on.

It's funny you to bring up meat

right off the bat that way.

I was havin' a dream that there was

a recall on some meat somewhere.

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