Rich Hill Page #3

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I work hard enough

during the f***ing week,

I shouldn't have to clean

on my days off.

Sh*t should already

f***ing be done.

How are you doing the face?

The eyes are done?

Not reddened in yet,

but the outline's done.

Oh, all right.

Get a picture!

What, what.

You ain't got no pancake mix,

what?

Can't handle all this.

Did you take one with

the cigarette

in my mouth, though?

Yeah, I got one with

the cigarette in your mouth,

but you might not be able to

send one to your mom with it.

Trick or treat!

Yeah, trick or treat.

Yeah.

You love us!

Ain't we too old for this?

Uncle Jimmy!

What are you doing?

Y'all out having fun?

Yeah.

Man there's been peeps

all over the place

running around here,

you know that?

Is there?

Here, you need more.

I need more.

All right, Uncle Jimmy.

He gave me a handful

and then he gave me

another big handful and said

"You need more."

Funny.

Man, we need to hit more houses

'cause no chocolate's

not working for me.

I ate all my chocolate.

I think.

Man.

Yup, I ate all my chocolate.

That's for sure.

That's what I go

trick or treating for.

I don't even check the candy.

I mean, what...

The worst thing they're gonna

do is shove a razor blade

and if they're that

stu-,

if they got that much

stupidity in them

then it's not even worth

having them alive.

I don't think so.

I mean, who wants to kill

a couple of kids?

That's why I got strong feelings

about rape, too.

I don't like it.

I'm against it.

'Cause there are some things

that have happened to me

that I don't really talk about,

but they still happened.

I mean, I ain't

forgot about 'em.

I I basically try

to forget about 'em,

don't think about it,

and then it don't really,

it don't come up too much

in conversation.

That and anybody that,

anybody that rapes a kid

should be murdered,

should just be shot.

Like, the cops

should just shoot him.

Is the way I feel about it.

That or the kid

that was raped by that person

should shoot them theirself.

I don't see nobody.

Grandma, you're gonna

have to get on my eyes.

Do up around my eyebrow ring

and stuff.

Like that, please.

You gotta kinda

squat down a little.

I'm gonna try not to hit

the eyebrow ring.

It don't matter.

Does it hurt?

No.

Ever?

We wanted to get out

of Rich Hill

because we

couldn't make it there.

So we ended up packing up

and moving here to Thayer.

I was so desperate when

I first got here.

I got this old time push mower.

And I went out and mowed

three yards with that

and made $20.

I went and bought me

a cheeseburger

and some football gloves.

I'm so tired of moving.

It's like a joke now.

Moving, packing and moving.

I honestly think that

God's gonna give me friends

and God's gonna give me

people that hate me.

God's gonna give me

girls that like me.

So I just let it all

form together,

I just stay to myself,

and whenever I get friends,

I have friends.

I want you to read

one of your questions here

from lesson one.

I mean, I hate moving,

but I know if we do, we do.

I have no say in what happens.

They're the parents,

I'm just a kid.

Your cheating heart

Will make you weep

You'll cry and cry

And try to sleep

But sleep won't come

The whole night through

We're so much happier.

Your cheating heart

I think the last time

that my son

tried to wake me up in Rich Hill

and I wouldn't wake up,

that was a turning point.

I remember that night.

It was on the Fourth of July.

Yeah, that's when I woke up,

was on the Fourth.

And I went out on

the first of July, that night,

and when I finally

did come to Willie told me,

Willie told me what day it was

and I'm like, no way.

You know, that's enough.

You're gonna run a red light.

Look.

Yellow means proceed

with caution.

No, it don't.

It's on your side, right?

Yellow means stop

and proceed with caution.

Ready?

Hear that lonesome

Whippoorwill

He sounds too blue

To fly

The midnight train

Is whining low

I'm so lonesome I could cry

I'm so lonesome I could cry

Thank you.

Thank you, Willie.

Give him a hand.

It feels good to have

all the bills paid for once.

Caught up, pretty much.

But I hate money.

So this summer's gonna be

a whole new ball game.

Be lots of work.

Get the kids some things

they might want, for once.

Like to take a day

and take the kids

down to WalMart

or the dollar store

and just let 'em buy

whatever they want,

in a reasonable amount.

About $400 apiece

worth of stuff.

They'll love that.

Each year we always try

to get a strategy

to do something different

to better

the whole, whole program

of them growing up

and us being a parent.

I was wondering where

everybody went.

Just out here.

Oh, okay.

It's too cold out here,

I'm going back in.

You wanna go in?

Let's go in.

I was thinking about

moving to China.

Think about moving to China

and becoming an art teacher.

'Cause paintings and stuff

from China are friggin' awesome.

You get to sit there

and draw dragons all day.

I praise God, I worship Him.

And I pray to Him every night.

Nothing's came,

but that ain't gonna stop me.

This is what goes

through my mind.

God has to be busy

with everyone else.

Eventually He will come

into my life.

I hope it happens.

It's gonna break my heart

if it don't.

You wanna hear something

really loud?

Me and my mom used to

listen to this song

before she got locked up.

Freedom ain't

getting no closer

No matter how far I go

My car is stolen

No registration

Cops patrolin'

And now they don't stop me

and I get locked up

They won't let me out

They won't let me out

Well, the first time I even

found out she was in jail

is one of my other daughters

was down at the grocery store.

And they ask her what

Joanne got arrested for.

And she says "I don't know,

I hadn't heard

anything about it."

So she called me up,

I was babysitting her kids,

and she called me up

and she said,

"Mom, what'd Jo

get arrested for?"

And I said, "I don't know,

I'm up here

babysitting your kids."

And she said, "Well, I'll see

what I can find out."

And when I, when I actually

heard what it was for

was the next morning

when she was on TV.

Yeah, it was all over

the news, the internet.

Oh, I know.

The prosecuting attorney,

every time he opened

his mouth up,

he said that she was

a danger to society.

Which she wasn't.

She's always done everything

she can for the kids.

And she wasn't a danger

to society.

There's only a few people

that really actually know

the whole truth.

I was raped.

By my stepfather.

The cops didn't get called,

nothing happened.

We, it was best to just

leave it alone.

They didn't even bring up

charges against him.

They won't.

No, they said they wouldn't

because there wasn't

enough evidence.

Yeah, there wasn't

enough evidence.

So she's locked up for nothing

and he goes scot-free.

Yup.

I'm just a waitress and

a mother that loves her kids.

There's nothing really

special about me.

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