Digging for Fire Page #5

no way I'm gonna go digging down there.

- Right? Have all that sh*t

come back on my family.

You don't wanna find anything

down there, believe me.

Yeah, I know.

The Chicano Hall of Fame

is down there.

Okay. Thanks for stopping by.

And I keep thinking the older I

get the more I'm gonna know,

and I don't, I'm just getting older and

fatter, and, like, more broken down.

And that's true.

You know when you talk to like

an old man, or at least for me,

you know, they'll say like, "It's weird

when we talk because I feel your age,"

and then I look

in the mirror and I'm not.

- That's starting to happen.

- Oh, really?

With... I'm like... This is... I was with two

16-year-old boys and we were, like, goofing around,

Why were you with

two 16-year-old boys?

- It was a work thing. I'm a teacher.

- Oh, okay.

But we were, like, having fun, and,

like, laughing and doing bits.

We were doing like, "Ooh, kill 'em, kill

'em." and they're like, "You don't..."

And we were like, all laughing.

And I saw the reflection of

this, like, of the car in the

and I was so old,

and they were so...

And I had that thought

of like, wow!

But I didn't feel different

when we were having fun.

And that made me feel like,

I am gonna die.

- Hey!

- Yeah?

I found something!

I found something!

Ooh!

Holy sh*t.

I just found a bag of bones.

Oh, my God.

So somebody had bones...

Chopped them up, put them

in a bag, put them in here.

Yeah, here.

It's an awesome find.

This is so cool. It's like, the

most weird Easter egg hunt.

- Oh, God.

- Good job, good find.

Thank you.

Mom?

Mom?

Okay, give me a kiss. Mwah.

- All right, you're gonna play with

Grandma and Grandpa, okay? -Okay.

- I love you.

- I love you too.

Have fun!

Bye, Grandma.

Hi.

- Hey. Are you Lee?

- I am.

Oh, good.

I'm so glad I found you.

- The GPS took me... -I know. It always goes

up Deerpath and then you can't get through.

I know, I'm sorry.

So am I.

Where are you going?

- Big Brackwood. I'll tell you

how to get there. -Oh, awesome.

Was that your house?

No, no. I mean, I wish.

Well, I don't know if I wish.

I mean, it was my mom's house.

- It's really nice.

- It is really nice.

My house is not very nice.

No.

No. We live on the east side.

- Oh, okay.

- Yeah, Atwater Village.

Oh, yeah, yeah,

I know where that is.

Yeah, we don't even live in a house.

We live in a duplex.

That's still nice. You can

pretend to have a house.

Yeah, I know, right?

Sort of. I think we thought we were

gonna move out of it and get a house

several years ago,

but it hasn't panned out yet.

I kind of like

driving around over here

because I can sort of pretend that I

live in one of these giant houses.

Right?

But I always wonder if I would be happier if I

lived in one of these, instead of an apartment?

I think I read this study, or my

husband told me about this study,

because we talk about

this stuff a lot,

that they did for Harvard or something

where they said you actually,

people with money actually are

happier, live marginally happier,

and then it kind of plateaus and

they're as unhappy as everybody else,

but they are

a little bit happier.

Where are my two

favorite munchkins?

- Hi.

- Hi.

- How are you doing, darling?

- Hi, Lee. Good.

- So good to see you.

- Hey, guys, you remember Lee?

Oh, my God, you're all wet.

I can't even hug you.

High-five. Two hands.

You remember Auntie Lee?

On the side. In the hole.

You've got soul.

- Hi, how are you?

- Good. Good to see you.

- Good to see you too.

- Oh, this is Lucy.

- Hi, I'm Lucy. Nice to meet you.

- Hi. Nice to meet you.

- It's amazing.

- Wow.

- Here you go.

- Thank you.

- Cheers, you guys.

- -Cheers.

I have been counting the

minutes to this reunion.

You wanna cheers me or no?

- Yeah, cheers.

- Okay.

You, if you would give

that to me, I would win too.

- Okay.

- I win!

- How is he doing?

- He's so good.

I wanna eat him every day.

You could have bought him.

You know he needs some time

with Grandma and Pop-pop,

and Mommy needs some time too.

- How old is he now?

- Three.

- Oh.

- Yeah, it goes fast.

- Yeah, it's been a long time.

- Yeah.

I mean, part of me wishes we could have

someone, you know, full-time, live-in...

You could do it. I mean,

we just found her, you know?

Um, she knew

somebody from work, so...

Do you mind if I ask

how much you pay her?

- Very little.

- Yeah.

But lives in the guest house

it's kind of a big draw.

There's kind of a deal.

She's like an actress,

and she is auditioning.

We're kind of flexible.

It's not...

It's an interesting...

I think she's great. I think she fits

in really well. The kids love her.

Here's the, here's the thing.

Tell me how you feel about this.

We are gonna go to Costa Rica

on a family vacation.

It was gonna be us

and the kids.

- It's still gonna be us and the kids.

- I'm excited about it.

But suddenly, Bob thinks

that Lucy should come.

- No. Okay, here's what happened.

- For the whole time.

Here's what happened.

Squitch says...

- What do you think about

Costa Rica, right? -Uh-huh.

We penciled in Costa Rica,

starting on the 10th,

because that was the week that

seemed like it was gonna be open.

Everybody agreed to the 10th.

- My schedule doesn't work like your

schedule works. -The 10th is good.

I know what it is three,

four months in advance.

I started planning... Well, it does.

It can.

It can, it can

if you want it to.

- It can't. It can't.

- It can if you want it to.

- Okay, sure, if I wanna call the client...

- If you communicate...

and say, "We're gonna drop the account.

Sorry, we're not ready",

"and I'm going to Costa Rica."

If you communicate and you talk to me when

you find out that it's not a good date,

you tell me then,

so I can change things.

So I have a project,

that went over,

and we've got a lot of options.

One of the options is, we can

postpone the trip and we can go...

Why don't you have just like a nice

night and have some, like, you time

- and, like, read a, read a book...

- What does that mean?

I feel so shitty. I don't even

know what I'm saying to you.

You're saying

you don't wanna go out.

- I'm saying I can't, I can't.

- I know, I know.

I was really

looking forward to tonight.

Like, on a level that I can't

even describe to you, but...

You sure you can't do it?

You can't push it?

I know, and I'm supposed to

just let you off the hook,

but I'm being so selfish and

just pushing for my needs.

I was so excited to see you and

I wanted to be able to do it,

but I haven't done anything

for like two months.

Maybe you need to get out.

- Hey.

- Hey.

- What do you say we call it?

- Call it?

Yeah. I'll buy you some dinner

as a thank you.

- Yeah.

- You in?

My clothes are

pretty dirty, though.

I'll find you

some clean clothes.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- Good.

- Good.

I want...

Whoa.

- What's up, Timmy?

- Hey, Phil, my boy.

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