Daddy and Them Page #8

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o have somebody

care abou hem ha much.

She's had a lo ofboyfriends.

Women ha's daddy's run off...

they do that sometimes.

They're lookin' for something.

She found it.

You're a lucky man.

Sure wished I was buil like you,

lean and everything.

Someimes I hink Ruby'd be crazy

abou you if you was as fa as a hog.

- You think so?

- Mm-hmm.

Sometimes

I don't think she's bluffin'.

Don't ever

let it be too late.

Wake up.

- I'm awake.

- No. Wake up.

So wha am I supposed o do?

Pick a color and a number?

One or he oher.

All righ. I'll pick a yellow.

- Y- E-L-L-O-W.

- And one on he inside, righ?

- Mm-hmm.

- Ours.

- O-U-R-S.

I'm so glad

you're eatin' cheese.

What are you talkin' about?

You know, you're supposed to pick a word now,

but I forgot to write anything on the inside.

Uh-oh.

- You know what I was thinkin' about?

- Hmm?

That one of these days when we

get rich, I'm gonna build us a house.

- I like our house.

- I like our house, oo, honey...

but this is gonna

be a special house.

I'm gonna build a tunnel from the back

door to plumb out in the woods...

and at the end of the tunnel

there's gonna be a toilet.

That way, can't nobody

bust in on ya, ya know?

- Uh-huh. - And hen righ nex o

i, here's gonna be a lile room...

wih a weigh machine in i so I can

keep my muscles good, my belly fla.

'Cause if my belly ain't flatter than all

your ex-boyfriends', you can't stay with me.

I'd have to leave you, honey.

I gotta be better than them,

all of'em, in every way.

You are.

I told you a million times.

But I mean in every way.

I hate them bastards, honey.

I hate 'em as bad as you hate Rose.

- I don't hate Rose.

- Then quit eatin' my ass out about her, honey.

- It ain't my fault. I don't do nothin'.

- Why don't you tell her...

to leave you alone

and stop flirtin' with ya?

And then

I don't have to do it.

If you don' love her

and you do love me, hen ac like i.

It's embarrassin' to me. You don't

do nothin' strong or hard enough.

I can't believe

you said that to me.

That's the very thing that kills me,

and you just sat right there...

and looked me in the eye

and said that to me.

You wanna get one of your

ex-muscle men, is that what you want?

Then you can have all

the strong, hard sh*t you want.

You make me feel

like a gna.

I don't mean that kind of hard.

I don't mean f***in'- wise.

Don't say that word when

we're talkin' about muscle men.

I mean, look me in the eyes

and tell me you want me...

not her

or the ambulance driver.

Make me feel safe

once and for all.

That's all I want.

You are he flaes belly

and he sronges and he bes.

And it ain't fair for you to keep sayin'

you ain't gonna be with me.

You can't ever

say that again!

I ain't ever even been

with a muscle guy.

- I just let that on to make you jealous.

- Jealous?

- To make me jealous?

- Yeah. I did.

You're funny as hell.

I don't even wanna hear that sh*t.

I can't believe

you'd say that either.

- Honey, I'm the most jealous

son of a b*tch in the world.

- I know.

- My God.

I don't need any help. Don't be doin' me

no favors. Besides, I've seen your pictures.

I've seen that one big old guy,

that Chuck, or whatever his name is.

He was fat.

And I didn't

screw him anyway.

I didn't screw half of'em

I told you about.

- Are you serious?

- Yes, I am.

Just half? I was kind

of hopin' it'd be less.

You know what I mean.

Not exact arithmetic.

Just a few.

- A few? Like what?

- It don't matter. You're the strongest...

and the handsomest and

the most beautiful and the funniest.

- But how about the biggest?

- Yes, but it don't matter, 'cause I love you!

But I am, right?

I ain't sayin' it again!

I said it for the last time!

What, honey?

I don't care how many muscles

anybody else has got...

or how pretty they are or how rich

they are or how poor they are...

or how smart they are or how ignorant

they are or... They ain't you.

You see this?

You see this?

You see this?

You see this?

There ain't but one of them things

in the whole world, and they're on you!

I don't want nothin' or nobody

in this whole world but you!

You're the only one that thinks

about my old boyfriends... not me!

And I don't lie to you,

so have some faith in me.

I love you,

and I'm good to you.

And that's all you get.

And that's all I want from you.

That, and tell Rose to f*** off, and

maybe I'll stay off your ass about her.

You are my friend.

Don't you know that?

You're my friend.

I know that.

Alvin busted in on me in the toilet

tonight while I was doin' lumber.

I'm sorry, sugar.

I guess it's okay.

He's my brother.

He didn't mean no harm.

You know what I've been thinkin' about

ever since I met Hazel's wife?

What's that?

About packin' up the car and takin' you

on a vacation over to England and France.

We ain't never been

nowhere further than St. Louis.

It's about time.

And that wasn't for you.

That was for the Cardinals.

I wanna do something for you

that girls like.

Something romantic.

Take you over there

and see all them castles...

where all your kings

and queens lived.

See all them places where

folks got their heads cut off.

That kind of thing.

Sometimes, when you threaten

to kill yourself, it scares me...

'cause sometimes I'm afraid

that you're really gonna do it.

I couldn't make it

without you.

I wouldn't even know

what to do.

Plus, every time I'd be making out

with whoever I ended up with...

I'd just be thinking

about you.

'Course, I wouldn't

end up with anybody else anyway...

not ever.

I'd probably

become a preacher...

one of them kind

that "abstracts" from sex, you know?

You look like an angel to me

when you're sleeping.

I love you so much.

You'll never know.

Mama. Mama, ell me wha o do.

Daddy.

I had he weirdes

dream las nigh, Daddy.

I dreamed you and Mama

was out in the backyard dancin'.

Gettin' around pretty good, too,

to be as stove-up as you are.

Whole bunch of us

was wachin'y'all.

- Ruby wasn't even mad at the ambulance driver.

- Why not?

Oh, and, you know, I heard Chet Atkins

play guitar, too, but I didn't see him.

- That was it?

- Yeah.

That was just it? There wasn't nothin'

chasin' you or nothin'?

No much of a nighmare.

I said it was a dream,

Daddy, not a nightmare.

Daddy, I read o escape.

How come you started

talkin' so much lately?

Sorry about your car,

Claude.

It's all right.

I'm just glad you didn't

get hurt any worse.

Besides that, I had a dream somebody bought

me a hot rod... I believe it was Willie Nelson.

McGwire hit 70. Y'all are going

to have to get a TV, you know it?

I know.

I know.

- All right. I'll see y'all.

- All right.

- I'll see you.

- Bye-bye. We'll see y'all soon.

Bye.

- All right. Y'all come see us sometime.

- All right.

You come back.

Remember what I said.

I will, Daddy.

- Hang on to that thing.

- Hang on to what thing?

- That truck.

- All right.

We'll see you, then.

- Bye, Mama.

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