Manglehorn Page #3

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- It's awful.

- It's expensive food.

- I don't care how much it costs.

- Eat it, Dad.

Menu, pretentious.

Conversations are pretentious.

This whole place, overpriced.

Emperor's new clothes right here.

- Don't eat it then.

- It won't be eaten.

- I don't care. Don't eat it.

- Guaranteed.

Everything okay, Mr. Manglehorn?

Oh, it's terrific, Rudolfo.

Thank you, we're just...

- just having a conversation.

- Rudolfo,

I would like a piece

of chocolate cake if you got it.

- Yes, sir.

- Good. Thank you.

And take this, Rudolf.

He's not gonna eat it.

- Okay.

- Thank you.

Never easy with you. It's never.

Never easy. Of course, never.

Dad, I don't wanna do it.

I don't wanna do it.

So you talk to Mom lately?

How's she doing?

I don't talk to her.

I never loved your mother.

The woman I loved slipped away,

I let it happen.

Got my priorities screwed up.

My vision of what I wanted in life.

- Well, that's too bad.

- Yeah.

- That's really too bad.

- Yeah.

Guess things change.

You know, I don't know, maybe this

other woman maybe she'll return and...

then maybe you'll remember how

to love someone more than an animal.

You don't know love.

- Don't tell me I don't know what love is.

- You don't know. You're a son of mine.

You should know these things.

- I got a lot of work to do, Dad, so...

- Oh, what else?

It was great seeing you.

Leave this for Rudolf.

- Keep the rest for yourself.

- I don't need it.

Great seeing you, Dad. Really great.

Your cake, sir.

Yeah, I like it a la mode.

- Will do, sir.

- That means...

Ice cream.

Get rid of that orange stuff

on the side, please.

Yes, sir.

Go ahead, don't you like the ice cream?

- Yeah.

- How is it?

It's good. But do you know

what my favorite flavor is?

- Chicken.

- Chicken ice cream?

That's confusing.

I like... I like vanilla.

Vanilla? That's really confusing.

- That's a strange flavor for ice cream.

- No, it's not.

Well, it's kinda confusing

how the leaves change color.

- It is.

- How do they do that?

Well, you see, something happens

in nature because...

- I think fairies do it.

- Oh, you think the fairies do it.

Well, sure, why wouldn't they?

What do you think

the fairies do to the leaves?

They paint them and then they

jump on them like trampoline

so they look like they're gonna fall.

You know, I once read a poem...

and it went like this.

Nobody knows the wind...

neither you nor I.

But when the leaves

bow down their heads...

the wind is passing by.

- Get that?

- Yeah.

- You want to say it with me?

- But in pictures...

you can see the wind.

It looks like this.

It's a straight line and then a curl.

- Yeah.

- A straight line and a curl.

And a straight line, curve, curl.

- And you can see that?

- Yeah.

You're special. I can see that.

Okay, here comes the sneeze.

Now, if I sneeze three times

then you go down.

Let me see your sneeze first.

Yeah. That was good.

- This is fun.

- You see that?

- Once you start, you can't stop.

- Do you wanna do it?

Just keep going, yeah.

You better let your balloon go, honey,

before we get home.

Why?

Well, I don't know. You know, balloon

belongs in the sky where it came from.

- Right?

- Yeah.

- I guess.

- So it's lonely.

Homesick. That's right. Oh, that's good.

Look. Thanks for hangin' with us.

- Come on. You wanna drive this time?

- No.

Why not? You know,

I gotta do everything.

- Bye-bye, grandpa.

- Bye-bye, Kylie.

- I love you very much.

- I love you too. Thank you for my lion.

Oh, there was nothing to it.

See you next week.

Thank you, Patricia.

Thank you, mister. See you next time.

You know, I remember one time...

that we went to the rodeo with your dad

and your abuelo and me and you.

- Do you remember?

- No.

Well, we went to that rodeo

and there was this bull.

The longhorn bull.

It was... it was really big.

He jumped the fence into the ring

and he started jumping

and throwing things

and the clown went running

and everybody was running

and everybody was

so afraid of this thing

and nobody knew what to do,

the vets couldn't help him

and the poor bull was suffering

and suffering and...

Mr. Manglehorn clapped

his hand two times...

and walked to him...

put his hand like that next to the bull

and the bull with his big, big paw

put it on top of the hand

and the nail that was hurting him

so bad and nobody realized,

went straight to abuelo's hand.

- Cool.

- Yeah.

And then the bull was good

and relaxed again.

- That's why I love grandpa.

- Well, we all love grandpas.

Abuelos.

- Abuelos.

- Abuelos are really good.

Can you hear me talking to you, ma'am?

Are you hurting anywhere, ma'am?

You know what happened?

- Mr. Manglehorn, good to see you again.

- Good to see you.

- Yes, sir. Have a seat please.

- Yeah.

Sure.

I've got some interesting things

to share with you about Ms. Fannie.

- Okay, I'm ready.

- Yes.

Her vomiting... and lack of appetite...

is resulting from a problem

in her small intestine.

She has swallowed a foreign object.

She has an obstruction...

that... is not allowing

the normal peristalsis

of the smooth muscle to continue.

- What could that object be?

- Well, that's a good question.

And I'm sure you'll be able

to recognize it quite easily.

How she swallowed that,

I don't know but there it is.

And so what we're gonna need

to do is a laparotomy.

It's in a actually a very good position.

It passed through her stomach

through her pylorus

and it's in the upper part

of what we call the duodenum

of the small intestine.

This is a... another chart

showing, in this instance

a foreign object, which is a ball

that's in this animal's intestine.

Even in a sterile surgical setting

there's bacteria at work in the GI tract

so we're gonna need

to compensate for that.

- We'll flush her abdomen.

- Yeah.

Her blood work looks really great.

She's gonna be a good anesthetic risk.

- We're catching this early...

- You're gonna get right through this.

Very, very good chance that she'll...

she'll do super fine.

- I'll be able to just make a small...

- Could you give me the percentage of chance?

We're gonna make a small incision...

I would say 95%.

Excellent chance of full recovery.

- That's all I want.

- Okay.

Mornin', Mr. Manglehorn.

You doin' alright today?

- Another day, another sausage.

- You got that right.

Little ol' sausage he got...

I don't know what he doing...

For Chief.

- How's he doing?

- So much better.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah, the wound is healing.

- Yeah? It's healing.

- Yeah.

Thank you so much.

You're such a sweet man.

She's a little drugged.

It's starting to take effect on her.

Alright, Ms. Fannie,

we're fixin' to open you up, young lady.

Pop that scalpel blade

on my sterile 4x4s right there.

Okay, don't touch nothing.

Go ahead and get that t... tape.

Be careful now.

Y'all scrubbed her already?

Alright, put that solution on there.

That's what needs to be on there

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