Something Real and Good
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What?
What?
No, really.
What?
I should be the one
saying what.
You were watching me.
Was I?
Yeah.
Hmm.
While I was reading my book, I thought if I gave you a sort of a glance and looked amused
you might be impressed.
Impressed?
With a glance?
Well, I tried to make it charming
or coy or maybe both.
I'm not really sure
at this point.
What more do you want?
Do you know any tricks?
What kind of tricks
are you looking for?
I don't know.
slight of hand, something like that.
Maybe juggling.
Would it really matter
if I knew carney tricks?
Glad we had this talk.
Hmm-mm.
Diary?
No.
Journal?
No.
Then what is it?
You know, stuff.
Stuff?
Well, now I know.
What?
It's got all your secrets.
Why do you rub the lining
of your jacket?
I noticed you
over in the ticketing line
rubbing the lining of your jacket.
Guess I could ask you why
you feel the need to talk to strangers?
It's a human need I suppose.
So that's what you do
when you're pretending to read?
Come up with things to say
that might sound profound and...
wait for someone to say them to?
No.
Sometimes,
when I'm not reading,
but pretending to be.
All right, listen.
I have a little black notebook
that I write them down in and...
I find strangers to test them out on.
How's that working out
for you?
Usually better.
But see, there was this girl
down there earlier,
she just would not get onboard.
It's a tough nut to crack.
Not that I'm into nuts or anything
as I'm extremely allergic to peanuts.
You're crazy.
Crazy good or crazy bad?
Crazy ba... good.
But good?
Yes.
The jury's still out.
I'll let you know when they
come back with a verdict.
All right.
I can work with that.
You know what else
I can work with?
Coffee.
Coffee?
Yeah, let's get some.
Now?
Yes.
With you?
Yes.
No.
All right, listen.
I am desperate for
human contact.
I've spent the last two years
mining for precious metals
in the Western hills of Sierra Leone
with my mute companion named Becky.
It is a pleasure to meet you
This is where you reciprocate.
I usually tell people I'm a drummer
in an all girl punk band.
But I'm not.
I love travel-sized
accouterments and...
I'm a wizard at parallel parking.
Oh, and I'm not jaded.
I'm depressed.
Super.
Strangers no more.
Let's go get some coffee.
It's just the mixture
of me and coffee.
It's...
I get really, uh...
I have this sense of immediacy that all of the
spaces in my mind have got to be filled,
but all the world is there for me
to consume and envelop.
It's mine to crack open and
spill into my hands,
but if I don't do it now
nothing will ever be mine.
What I want, what I need,
all I see, now, now, now.
I see I've momentarily
forgotten how to function.
So,
maybe I should go.
What were you saying earlier?
I don't know.
Oh.
Something about the
immediate need for Self-fulfillment.
How's it working out for you?
Kind of feels like it's not.
Welcome to your 20's.
How old are you?
So what you're saying is when I turn 27,
I can get smug and all knowing?
I don't claim to know
everything.
You act like you do.
It's a common misconception.
How old are you?
You're just a little niblet.
A niblet?
Yeah.
Young.
Like corn?
Corn?
Why are you talking about vegetables?
You called me a niblet.
Oh, right.
Corn niblets.
Tell me something.
Something?
Yeah.
Something real.
Something real.
I had this blanket when I was a kid
that had satin all around the edges,
and I used to rub the satin
in between my fingers, you know,
just between my fingers all the time.
That's why I rub the lining
of my jacket.
It reminds me of the satin.
That wasn't so hard.
I guess.
I just don't like the whole revealing myself
process all that much.
Afraid people won't like
what they see?
No.
Afraid they will?
Aha.
That I am afraid,
that you're gonna have to tell me something.
Something good.
Fair enough.
My first true love
was Gwen Stefani.
Gwen Stefani?
Hell yeah.
I'm just a girl.
That song rocked!
You know she was like a little punk,
you know?
And when she would get on stage,
she'd just jump around
like she was possessed
by something.
She led me to steal
for the first time.
She made you steal?
I was in the store in the mall,
and there was this little poster of her
on stage completely possessed.
And I had to have it.
I mean I had to take it
for myself.
I mean I had the money for it,
but it wasn't about buying.
She wanted me to take her.
So, I did.
I've never stolen
anything before.
Not even like a pack of gum?
Not even.
How is that even possible?
I don't know.
I was kind of a goody-goody
growing up.
Let's go steal some sh*t.
No.
Yeah.
Be part of your life education.
How?
It's good to grow.
No.
I can't.
Here, put this in your pants.
No, are you crazy?
What's the problem?
What am I gonna do with
a travelling compass?
Does it matter?
Well, it should be useful
Well, it should be useful,
shouldn't it?
No.
Okay, fine.
It will help you along your path
in these crazy days of life we live.
All right, all right.
so into practicality.
Hey, why don't you just let me
pick something?
You're getting a little overexcited.
Fine.
Pick something yourself.
Thank you.
I mean honestly, is this how Gwen's poster
spoke to you, because...
Feeling a little excluded,
aren't you?
Maybe.
'cause I could use some help.
You don't mean that.
Of course I do.
Yeah?
Yes.
I need a wingman,
and I think you are
the man for my wing.
Now we're talking.
All right, what's my handle?
What are you?
A trucker?
No, but if we're gonna be covert,
we can't use our real names.
Fine.
I'm Cher, you're Dion.
Why can't I be Cher?
'cause you're the sidekick
in this operation.
Touche.
I need you
to neutralize Elton.
Done.
Great.
Wait.
Who's Elton?
The creeps old lady
over at the register.
Cake.
So, Peggy,
what do you do when you're not working
at Zene's & Things?
You seem like you'd be into...
Well that sounds very interesting.
Good day, madam.
Hey, hey.
What did you get?
What the hell is that?
It's a koosh ball.
A koosh ball?
Yeah.
You think that's more useful
than a travelling compass?
Yeah.
It spoke to me.
Time out.
Time out.
So, are we tight now?
Oh, yeah.
We're an open book.
I tried.
I mean, I'm not all that interesting
really.
I mean what's to know?
I don't know.
Stuff.
Well, I don't know you.
So, like, telling you stuff
would be weird.
That's weird.
Why?
Why?
Just is.
No it's not.
You just said it was.
I didn't.
Yes you did.
Okay, I did.
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