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You mind telling me

where you were wounded?

I don't usually divulge that information

till the second date.

So what do you wanna do

with your life, Richard?

I wanna help people.

And make a lot of money.

Yeah!

After graduation,

I lied about my experience

and got a great job

with an insurance company.

They had no idea I was deaf.

Right here.

Careful.

Where do you want this?

Yeah, right... Over here.

Hey.

- What do you think?

- I love it.

Nobody's asking for handouts, man.

All these cats here,

they all wanna work, bro.

They just need somebody

to front them, you know?

Some buttoned-down a**hole who's

already got his nose up the man's ass.

Somebody with a job, bro.

Yeah, somebody like me.

Good idea, bro.

I will give you those things

you thought unreal

Follow me now and you will not regret

New shirt?

Baby, the phone.

Hello?

Wait, whose birthday?

They better be

the best pancakes on the planet.

Forget it, I'm not hungry anymore.

Oh, that's funny.

- You know what else is funny?

- What?

A guy with CP

rolling down a flight of stairs.

Hey, buddy, can you hold that for...

Thank you, appreciate that.

Hi.

Just here.

Yes, your highness.

- You want your coat on or off?

- Off.

Okay.

All right.

You need a menu?

No, no. I...

I know what I want.

Good evening.

I mean, good morning.

Hi.

Hey, we'll just have the pancakes.

Yeah.

Actually, my manager

told me that we can't serve.

- You can't serve pancakes?

- Why? They...

They got them.

Look, I don't want to sound rude...

No, no, no. You're not rude, it's...

I'm the only one who understands him.

I'm trying my damnedest

to not make this a scene.

Good. I don't feel there is one.

I think you two need to leave.

You're making the other customers

very uncomfortable.

Oh.

Why?

Hey, we can refuse to serve

whoever we want here.

You gotta be kidding me.

It's my friend's birthday.

All he wants is pancakes.

I... I think

she needs some hot man love.

Maybe. I'll ask her,

but I don't think she's your type, Art.

Okay, don't you dare.

You are the ugliest,

most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

I thought people like you died at birth.

How do you expect people

to eat around you?

Normal people

shouldn't even have to look at you.

Listen, lady.

I'm

sorry if I'm

doing your job for you.

He says he's very sorry

for turning your customers' stomachs.

- That's obviously your job.

- Yeah.

Okay, you know what? You guys can

leave, or I can call the police.

Oh, oh, wait.

Call them.

That night we were arrested for

violating what was known as an Ugly Law.

This law made it a crime

for anyone to appear in public

who was diseased,

maimed or deformed in any way

so as to be

an unsightly or disgusting object.

Hey, hey, buddy.

Watch it, dickwad.

No parkin'by the sewer sign

Hot dog, my razors broke

Water drippin' up the spout

But I don't care, let it all hang out

Let it all hang out

Let it all hang out

Let it all hang out

That horrible waitress

had done me a huge favor.

I'd been trying to hide from my past.

She made me embrace it.

I quit my nice, high-paying job

and went to work for a real jerk.

Me.

I cold-called every business

in the phone book.

I wouldn't take no for an answer.

I found jobs for every vet I knew,

and in the process,

I found a life calling for myself.

All right, Richard,

let's see how this sounds.

Dr. Collins,

please call extension 21-10, stat.

Dr. Collins, please call extension 21-10.

At that time, the only people

vets trusted were other vets,

so I got a job at a government agency

helping them find work.

What is it that you're afraid of,

that he can't work with you,

or that you can't work with him?

You had to stop

and think about that, didn't you?

As soon as I was hired,

Mike said he wanted a job.

Nothing tickled him more

than trying to tear down a system

that made no sense to him.

Mike was a natural headhunter.

I'm like Chinese water torture, lady.

I'm gonna keep calling you back

till you pull your head out of your ass.

Listen, lady, listen to me.

I left my leg in a rice paddy.

I get a big, fat check every month.

I don't need to be

begging work for these guys.

But they need me.

And they need

somebody like you with balls

to give them a freaking chance

to make your company better.

What?

Yeah? Well, amen, sister.

Listen, maybe you and I

could get a drink sometime.

All right, maybe not. All right, take care.

The word was out.

I could find jobs for any disabled person,

veteran or otherwise.

She's a file clerk and she hasn't missed

a day of work in 20 years.

Sounds good.

- Tell him I'm a dwarf. Tell him.

- Can she start tomorrow?

- Yeah. And she's a dwarf.

- A what?

- A dwarf.

How the hell can a dwarf be a file clerk?

She specializes in L through Z.

- I have a step stool, stupid.

- She got a step stool. Come on.

- Okay, I'll give her a shot.

- Right.

- Have her come in tomorrow.

- Great.

Hello?

Is this the Governor's office?

Yeah, well, this is Richard Pimentel.

I have a note to return a call.

Okay.

Hello.

Yes, sir.

Well...

Thank you, sir.

Thank you very much. I certainly try.

'Cause you're an ungrateful piece of sh*t.

'Cause you're selfish.

What kind of offer?

What?

What? You wanna f***ing take me on?

You wanna take me on, tough guy?

Yeah, I would love

to talk about that. Absolutely.

I don't give a sh*t, man.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Listen, bro, how about

I come down there right now

and I beat you to death

with my plastic leg?

What? When?

You can start tomorrow?

He'll be there.

Hey, bro, listen, you're doing

a great thing for a vet, man.

Don't f*** it up.

- To our future.

- Absolutely.

So, when the Governor's office

called me last week...

Whoa. Excuse me?

I guess his office

had heard something about me.

I don't remember the exact words,

but something like innovator or genius.

- But you don't remember?

- No, not the exact words.

Anyway, the upshot is

they want me to create a program

to train employers to hire

and work with the disabled persons.

- Seriously? Honey, that's amazing.

- That's what I thought.

What were they doing before?

There is no before.

This is the first time they've done this.

- I'd be starting from scratch.

- Well, you little groundbreaker, you.

You heard about this for a week

and you never told me?

Well, I didn't know

it was going to be definite yet.

And the bad news is

I'd have to quit my job.

But the good news is,

is that once the program was created,

they wanna send me around

the country and train all the trainers.

So the good news is you'll be traveling?

Yeah. If you want to,

you could come with me for some of it.

What's wrong?

I just... Nothing. Nothing.

Well, come on, you seem bummed.

I'm not bummed. It's...

It's just that I hardly see you now as it is,

so what's it going to be like

when you start traveling?

No, no. This... Look,

this is a completely different job. Okay?

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