Flirting with Disaster Page #9

found that-- We read about that.

- Uranium, yeah.

- Uranium, yeah.

- Yeah.

- Highly toxic.

Thank God that's far away from here.

You don't have to worry about that.

- Well, could you recommend a motel?

- Oh, no! No, no, no.

- Oh, no need to go to a motel.

- There isn't a decent motel

for a hundred miles.

- And we have plenty of room

here for all of you.

- Oh, thank you.

- Great.

- Sure, sure.

- I-I-I don't want everyone

to stay here with you. It's--

- Why can't everyone stay here?

- Because this is a private thing.

- You know, if I could just lay down.

I'd like to go right to bed

and put the baby to sleep.

Sure. Let me help you. Don't you want

to eat something before you--

- No. Thanks. I'm not hungry.

- Nancy, come on. You're always hungry.

- F*** you.

- What? I'm, I'm sorry?

It's just-- You know, this isn't

the time or the place for this, okay?

Oh, but it was the time and place

to wrestle with her...

in San Diego, right, and break

a bunch of glass animals?

That's i-- That's fine?

That was a perfect time?

-I'm sorry, is this inappropriate?

-Nothing in this house is inappropriate.

We'll be upstairs.

You know, I-I'll get the, the bags.

I think I want to lay down too.

I bet you would.

- Hmm. Hmm.

- Having some problems, huh?

Yeah, we're kind of having

a little bit of a--

- Yeah. It's, uh--

- This, uh, some kind of

a swapping thing you got here?

- That what it is?

- No. No, no, no, no.Just, you know,

there's a little friction, that's all.

- I mean, you know--

- And then, and, and

these guys came along with us.

- Well, you know, you know--

- You know, marriage is tough.

You just got-- You gotta be

flexible in marriage, right?

- Yeah. Yeah.

- This thing is wonderful,

by the way. Who made this?

- That's my work.

- Really? You did this? Wow.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, I got a blacksmith shop

out in the barn, and I do

my sculptures there...

- Oh.

- and Mary throws her pots.

- Great.

- Really? She's into,

into pottery? Pottery?

- Oh, she's gonna love showing you

her pottery. Yeah, look at this.

- See, this, this is slab construction.

If you can see the--

- Yeah.

Uh, when I roll it out, then I have

weeds in with the rolling pin.

- I press them right into the surface.

- You know, just ordinary weeds.

- You put the weeds in the clay, yeah.

And then when you fire it, the weed--

the weeds burn off. Here, just stick--

- See, so where

the weeds were, you get the--

- Stick your fingers in here, you know.

- Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah--

- Now, stick two fingers inside...

- and just caress the-- That's it. Now--

- Oh, okay. There you go. Yeah.

- Uh-huh. Now feel the texture

on the out-- No, against your face.

- Yeah, so it's much-- Up here.

- That texture is--

- Oh, it's kind of--

Yeah, it's very rough.

- That texture is really amazing.

- Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's great.

- It looks rough...

- but it's very smooth, isn't it?

- Doesn't that feel good?

Isn't it something?

- Right, right, it's smooth.

- Smoother than you would think,

but, but still, still really--

- Yeah.

This is wonderful. Great stu--

I mean, and you guys, you guys are

making a living through the arts, huh?

- Well, we try. We--

Sometimes you have to supplement.

- We try to, but, you know, sometimes--

- Yeah, you have to supplement

with other things.

- These are all mine.

Every one of them, I made-- Oh, let--

I want to show you a big one I love.

This environment is so much more

creative than the one I grew up in.

- Oh, thanks. That's nice.

- It's really--

- This is a wood fire process.

- Uh-huh. Uh, is this--

- See how this-- Hmm?

- Who's that?

- That's our other son.

- You mean I have a brother?

- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

- You wanna say hello to Lonnie?

- Yes. He's been feeling a little

threatened about meeting you,

so be patient.

- Uh-huh.

Hi. How you doing? That's

a beautiful song you're playing there.

- Is supper almost ready? Lonnie?

- Yeah, we better--

We better go in and, and eat.

He's been cooking all day.

Bagged the quail himself this morning.

Ooh, wild quail. That's terrific.

Oh, you're in for a great treat.

Lonnie's a really good cook.

Ooh, the special son

is here tonight

Little Cinderella oughta cook up

Something special for him

Lonnie, can you make

Your quail tonight

Okay.

You know-- You know what I want,

I want to have happen? I want Mel--

I want you to sit over there

next to your father.

- Oh, it's okay.

- Oh, it's no problem.

Then I have all three

of my fellows in a row.

All right. Come on.

Come on. Come around.

- Um, maybe you should take

your, your plate with you.

- You don't mind, do you, Paul?

- That's all right. I didn't touch it.

Come on, come on. Sit down.

You like quail?

- See?

- No, I never had quail.

- Where are you?

You all right?

- I just don't wanna talk about it.

I need to calm down.

- All right.

Well, if you do wanna talk about it,

you know, I, I wanna be here for you.

- Thank you.

- Want me to take care of the baby?

He's fine. He's sleeping.

- Um, do you mind if I take a shower?

- No, I don't care, but could I--

- Could I just have a second?

- Okay.

So, um, Fritz said you were

a scientist, Richard.

Yeah, I was a-- I was a chemist

for Maple Brothers in the Bay Area

before we came out here.

- Right, the aspirin company.

- Yeah.

- Mm-hmm.

Decongestants, nasal sprays, all that,

uh, you know, that consumer crap.

I couldn't wait to quit.

- Oh, he hated it.

- Mm-hmm. I'm a scientist too.

- No, you're kidding!

- Yeah.

- Oh, you're kidding!

- Oh, my God! What are you--

What's, what's your specialty?

What, what's your field?

- Entomology.

- No! Isn't that incredible?

- I love it.

- Yeah.

- A genetic connection!

- Yeah. See, that is wonderful.

- Oh, my God! That's incredible!

- That is wonderful.

- Oh, that's amazing.

- For some reason, Lonnie never seemed

to have an interest in science.

- Mm, what does that mean?

- Hey, she doesn't mean anything.

It means something that you never

had-- an interest in science.

Look at the other things you do.

Yeah, well, who knows? I might

have had an interest in sculpture

if these guys didn't give me away.

- Yeah, who knows

what might have happened?

- Yeah, I know.

- Give me a kiss.

- Yeah, wh-wh-wh-what did happen?

- About what?

- Well, why did you guys give me up?

Why did we give him away?

- The big question.

- That's the question.

Well, Fritz Boudreau said

that you were indisposed...

and so that's how he came

to bring Mel to the agency.

- ''Indisposed''? Is that what he said?

- Yeah, indisp--

- That's the word Fritz used?

- That's-- That would have been nice.

- Big word for the fellow, huh?

- I wouldn't mind being indisposed.

- Okay, I'm gonna tell the story.

Um, how, how much detail

do you have to go into here?

I want Mel to know what happened, or

he'll never believe we cared about him.

- What are you hanging onto that for?

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