Fast Food Nation Page #5

that was a different story.

I was on the way.

Kinda cuts down on your options.

Mm-hmm. That is why,

if, by the age of 21...

you have not missed

one menstrual cycle...

- I will give you $1,000.

- Will you shut up? Okay?

- I am not talking to my uncle about sex.

- Okay.

I read this study

the other day about, uh...

people who are happiest

with their lives.

And, uh, the ones who have

followed their passion, right...

even if they weren't, you know,

technically successful, right?

When they were looking back

at their life, they had fewer regrets.

You know, they felt their life

had been more fulfilling.

- Yeah, that makes sense, I guess.

- Yeah, it does.

So, bottom line is, do not listen to me.

Do not listen to your mother.

Listen to yourself.

I mean, if you wanna be

like everybody else...

just do what everybody's

telling you to do.

Hmm.

And what about you? Are you doing

what you always wanted to do?

Well, if I jump back

to when I was your age-

No, I don't think

I would be wildly impressed.

All right? I don't- I-

But, you know, I'm all right

with what I'm doing.

And, you know, I'm really all right

with what I'm not doing.

- Is that your move?

- Yeah.

- Thuh-bop!

- Dang it.

Yep. So-

Hello.

- Amber, why are you still up?

- Well, why do you have my poncho on?

- It's fine.

- How was it, hmm?

- Well, she's home fairly early,

if that signifies anything.

Oh, no, no, no. That doesn't mean anything.

Your mother-She's amazing.

You wouldn't believe what she could

get accomplished in a short period of time.

Screw you both.

Hey, Sis. Sis-Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey.

So, what would you say?

Is Cody a better town today...

- or back when we were kids?

- Well, I know what you would say.

- What?

- Your uncle hates everything, Amber.

You know, I actually think it's better now.

There's more stuff to do.

Oh, yeah. There's more to do. You got

the Wal-Mart, the Kmart and the Target, right?

You got Chuck E. Cheese.

You got Taco Bell.

You got Arby's.

You got Mickeys. You got Denny's.

You've got, uh, Chili's.

You got Applebee's. You got Wendy's.

You got Hardee's, right?

You got the- the K.F.C., the IHOP.

- Do they still have

that Der Wienerschnitzel?

- Oh, yeah.

- Oh, thank God it's still hanging in there.

I don't know about you,

but I could just piss away...

a whole Sunday afternoon

at the Sunglass Hut.

- You know?

- Have you ever been to the Sunglass Hut?

No, I never have. I'm not trying to come off

like some Polly Perfect here.

I'm going to make some cabinets...

for some rich

New York investment banker f***...

who probably spends two weeks a year

at his Montana ranch, so don't listen to me.

- I'm not.

- I'm not talking to you.

I'm talking to your daughter.

I'm probably just going through some

full-of-sh*t, early middle-age period.

I don't think you're full of sh*t.

Thank you. She's so nice.

What happened to you?

No, no, sweetheart, don't contradict your mother.

He is full of sh*t.

I don't waste a lot of time

thinking about this stuff.

Democrats, Republicans-

- They're all crooks.

- This is why revolutions are meant for the young.

If you don't do it now,

you're never gonna.

Uniform- uniformity.

Conform- conformity.

Monogamy- monotony.

No wonder you're not still married.

- Stupid- stupidity.

- Yeah, look- Hey, the facts are not always friendly.

Listen to who's giving

the lecture here, Amber.

Your uncle did not finish college.

- Jesus! Mm-hmm. Oh!

- Okay?

- He lived in a camper for 18 months.

- An Airstream!

This is not a role model.

Remind me to deprogram you

after he leaves.

Hey, Mom said you got

kicked out of college.

- Oh, well, thanks, Mom.

- Yeah, your mug shots are in all the papers.

Yeah, with eight others. I was at

Colorado University. We were the C.U. Nine.

Yeah, that notorious band

of Midwestern, white freedom fighters.

No, no, no.

We took over the chancellor's office.

All right, we were protesting

the college's investment in South Africa.

- So what happened?

- All right, well, so, after about four hours...

- they come bursting through this barricade-

- Okay, that was two chalkboards.

- It's not two chalkboards.

- It was too.

We had rope with some chair-

They practically beat the sh*t out of all of us.

They treated us

like a band of terrorists.

You got your little ass

kicked out of college...

- which he never finished.

- Big deal.

- It cost our dad $2,000 in legal fees.

- I eventually paid him back.

Anyway, meanwhile-

Cut to-

About a year later, the college divests

all its holdings in South Africa...

and a little while after that,

Nelson Mandela is a free man.

- All because of the "C.U. Nine."

- No, nobody said that. Nobody even thought that.

The point is... that, you know,

if enough people...

start thinking about something

and trying to actually do something...

you can change things

for the better.

I believe that.

- I hope they can change for the better.

- Don't just hope.

You can't sit back and hope.

You have to do something.

In a town like this,

hope will kill you.

It's your move.

Rpido!

Rpido!

Rpido!

Eh.

Ah?

Hey, hey.

You f***ing crazy, huh?

Everybody else, stop f***ing smiling

and get back to work!

Coco.

Coco. Coco.

Is she okay?

She needs to start sleeping

at night.

So do you.

How's Stan's back doing?

He complains about it

all the time, but he's fine.

Say hello for me.

As for this little lady, she got about an hour

left on her shift, so-

- She'll make it.

- All right. Let's go.

ndale.

Hey.

You've been a bad girl.

Chill out, okay?

Touch her again...

and I'll kill you, hmm?

I mean it.

No?

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

- Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

- Hmm?

Think about it.

All that surveillance equipment

they have here?

They say it's for our safety...

but those cameras

are pointed right at us-

monitoring us, making sure

we don't steal sh*t and stuff.

Yeah, you know, I always wonder

whose job it is to watch those monitors...

'cause you don't see anyone

around here doing that.

I think they just record everything

in case somethin' happens.

It's probably all getting fed back

to the national headquarters.

Yeah, like our cash registers.

What about 'em?

- You don't know about that?

- Uh-uh.

Oh, man. Okay.

First thing I do whenever I start my shift

is type in the last four digits...

of my Social Security number,

then log in.

- Mm-hmm.

- And from then on,

they keep track of every keystroke.

- Really?

- Yeah, they keep a record.

They know exactly how many orders of fries

I've sold this month- everything.

And I even have to put in a little code

with each person's order...

saying their approximate age

and ethnicity.

They don't even know.

You know, that is f***in' evil.

Well-

That's Mickeys for you.

Man, when we came here,

we sat right over there.

- Was it, like, full?

- Yeah, it was really full.

There was this band that played.

- They were pretty good.

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