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to you next week.

End of the month's

in a week.

Oh, sh*t.

Look who made it out.

-What up, man?

-Hey.

Hey, Pete.

This is my boy, Justin.

-Hi.

-Good to meet you.

Have a seat, man.

Game's getting good.

Get a beer?

-Hey, it's on me.

-All right, thanks.

Yeah.

No problem, man.

So, you're done

studying everything?

-Yeah, sure.

-Yeah. That's right, man.

F*** school.

That's all that's all about.

Yeah.

F*** school.

Whatever.

Cheers to studying hard

and becoming somebody.

Thank you, man.

-Cheers.

-Cheers.

So, Justin,

where you from?

I grew up in Jersey.

Cool.

Follow basketball much?

No. I don't really

follow much.

Dude, we f***ing

live it, man.

Yeah we do.

High school, I was point guard.

This guy was a forward.

Put up more bricks

than a mason worker.

That's cool.

What brings you

down here then?

It's a long story...

basically for work.

All right.

You should have

called it in an instant.

Would have done

you some good.

Another foul.

-Hey, Pete.

-Thanks, a**hole.

Can I have one

of those for the road?

Yeah.

No problem, man.

I didn't know

you smoked.

I haven't in awhile.

There she goes.

Got a light?

-You gonna work tomorrow?

-Yeah.

I'll see ya tomorrow.

Good to meet you.

-You too, Justin.

-Thanks for the beer.

No problem, man. Justin,

if you're gonna live here...

...I'd start drinking.

You wanted

to see me, sir?

Yeah.

John called in sick.

I wonder if you could

work for him tomorrow?

Yeah, sure.

Thank you.

Good.

I've got some

not so good news.

I just talked

with the big boys.

I'm gonna have to

start making some cuts

starting next month.

I'm not gonna

lay you off.

I just don't know how

much work there will be.

Got to figure things out.

I just wanted to give you

a heads up so you could

do what you need to do.

Thank you, sir.

Don't go spreading

that around.

I don't want the others

to know until I've had

a chance to sort it out.

I won't say anything.

Sorry, son.

Times are just

tough around here.

Yeah.

See you tomorrow.

Why have you

been cutting class?

I don't know.

Nothing.

I'm just having

trouble with the V.A.

What about

your disability pay?

Oh, hasn't been

approved yet.

It's been almost a year,

and they still haven't

paid your disability?

They still haven't paid

my tuition yet either.

How are you getting by?

It's tight.

You know, I have to

walk to and from work,

skimp on some things.

I try not to dwell on it.

I mean, there's guys

who have it a lot

worse than I do.

Oh, sorry I took so long.

No.

This is great.

I could talk

to you all night.

Yeah.

It's been good talking.

Do you want to

join me for dinner?

We could go to that little

diner on Knott Street.

Come on.

Teacher's new to

hick town too, and

you're like the only guy

who's been passed the

county line since birth.

Yeah, well I wouldn't

have the Middle East as

my first travel destination,

but I guess

it still counts.

Well, it's more

interesting than here.

Dinner?

Sure.

I was only married

to the guy for a month,

and he was

completely useless.

You should've seen

him trying to take

out the garbage.

Oh my God.

I told you...

it was completely stupid.

No. Not stupid.

Dumb.

-And the difference?

-The difference?

You marrying some fat,

greasy douche 20 years

older than you

that you met

backpacking in Greece?

That's dumb.

That's you.

I was serving amidst

two wars and believing

the sales pitch

of a better life waiting

for me when I got out,

and thinking the

government who I took

a bullet for would give a sh*t.

-That's stupid.

-That wasn't stupid.

Idealistic nave?

Yeah. Maybe.

Brave, noble?

Definitely.

Brave, noble bullshit.

I joined up because I

didn't see another option.

I come from sh*t.

I thought I could just

crawl out of that sh*t,

you know, climb the ladder.

What is noble, Justin?

Huh?

Is what I do noble?

Is anyone here doing

anything that means a thing?

I mean, are the

a**holes that sent

you and thousands

of people like you

to fight and die

brave and noble?

Leave it up to our

base human instincts,

and nobody would

do anything that

means anything.

You were there,

you know?

You did what most

of us don't do...

think about, and you

did it all expecting

nothing more than

a little thanks in

the form of a handout.

That is noble.

Well, when you

put it that way...

It's f***ing true,

and you know it.

-Come on, it's on me.

-No. I can't...

You know what?

Shut the f*** up.

I'm done talking until you

accept what I told you.

In the future, I recommend

you not sneaking up on me.

Just take me home.

Yes, Miss Teacher.

Hi. I'm calling about the job

you have listed in the paper.

Yeah, the job opening.

Okay. 11 a.m.?

Yeah, I could do that.

Hi, Justin.

My name's Becky.

-Nice to meet you.

-How are you doing today?

Good, thank you.

Just some

basic questions.

Do you have

a food handler's card?

No.

Okay, you need to get

one of those before

you can work here.

It's very simple.

You can go online

and get 'em.

It's just a few dollars.

And transportation...

you have transportation?

-Yeah, I have a truck.

-Okay, good.

That's important,

and um, black slacks?

Do you have black slacks

or black pants?

No, I don't

have black slacks.

Those you need to have

before you can start

working here, too.

So, um, what do you think

qualifies you to work in

this establishment?

Well, I just got out

of the Marines.

I don't see how

five tours of duty are

gonna help me here.

Well, you never know.

It's kind of a battle field

in here at times, especially

during the summer.

Um, it's... you know,

right now we are

doing some hiring for

spring and summer,

so um, we do have

a lot of other applications

that we're looking at.

Yeah, so apparently

I'm not the right fit for a fast

paced career at Dairy Freeze.

Yeah, I don't give

two shits about it.

I could just use the

extra cash. That's all.

No.

That is not the uniform

women find sexy.

No. I picked up a few

applications on the way home.

Oh, by the way,

I got your note.

No excuses now, huh?

That was really nice of you,

but you don't have

to be giving me money.

You teachers don't make

enough money anyway to

be giving it away.

Yeah.

No seriously.

I'll be fine.

It's good to walk... builds

up strength in my gimp leg.

Shut the f*** up.

Shut the f*** up!

F***!

F***, f***, f***,

f***, f***, f***!

Like I've said, poverty

consists not in the decrease

of one's possessions

but in the increase

of one's rate.

So let's talk about how

this relates to the sub

prime mortgage crisis.

We have a couple of groups...

She followed this band

around for six months.

God. My friend Danielle,

she could get back stage

to any show.

Wow. Life must've been

tough for three hot

chicks on the town.

It had its perks,

but I don't miss it though.

My party days

are long gone.

Sounds like it was a blast.

Yeah, it was, but you

know, it was also fake...

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