Stranger Than Paradise Page #3

- May I help you?

- Yeah.

Willie! Eddie!

I told you she'd remember me.

I can't believe it!

- What are you guys doing here?

- Well, we're on vacation, like, you know.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- You came from New York?

- Yeah. We have a car and everything.

- Oh, yeah?

- We borrowed it.

Are you in trouble?

Mm-mmm. No.

How did you guys find me here?

We went to Aunt Lotte's house,

and she told us that you were here.

- Oh. You already saw her, huh?

- Yeah.

So, can you stay for a few days?

- Yeah, we could. Why not? I don't know.

- Yeah.

Oh, I'm so happy to see you.

You want a hot dog?

- No, no.

- No.

- You already ate, right?

- Yeah.

So, I have a little more work to do-

like, 20 minutes.

- Can you wait for me?

- Mm-hmm.

- Yeah. We came to pick you up.

- All right. I'll hurry up. Okay?

Yeah, but I think we should wait in the car,

'cause I don't like it in here.

- Neither do I.

- Yeah?

- All right, I'll hurry up.

- Okay.

- Just 20 minutes.

- Yep.

Come on.

- I told you she'd remember me.

- Well, good.

So, anyway...

anyways, it seems it's in the cards that I might

be getting a raise down at the gas station.

- Uh-huh.

- Hey, you said you'd go with me...

to the movies the other night.

You wanna go see Space Wizards

or that foreign flick down at the Olympia?

Uh, Days Without Sun.

You wanna see that?

I don't know.

Isn't there a kung fu movie?

I can go and check.

We'll see.

Yeah, check and call me up.

Okay?

- Yeah.

- All right. Bye.

Bye, Eva.

- Hi.

- How's it goin'?

How you doin'?

You know, while we're in Cleveland, Willie,

why don't we go see the Cavaliers?

- Oh, they have a terrible team.

- Well, so what?

They're like 0 and 48

or something like that.

Yeah, but we're not doing anything.

Well, what do you wanna do?

I don't know.

I'm going to the movies.

What?

What are you telling me?

I know what I wanna do.

No, you don't tell me what to do.

I'm not a baby.

I don't need them to babysit me.

No, I don't need them to babysit me.

I'm a big girl. All right?

Uh, hey. Hey, hey. Hey, Eva.

Why don't we just...

Aunt Lotte? Aunt Lotte, please.

We could go to the -

We came all this way to see you.

We could go to the movies with you, right?

- All right. Okay.

- It could be fun. No?

All right. I just don't understand

why she's treating me like a baby.

"Baby."

What...

Are we going to the movies?

Go ahead! Go ahead.

Hey!

Are we gonna go to the movies?

A blank screen on which to project

the images so ably devised by our friends...

- Well, thanks for the ride, fellas.

- Hey, thanks for paying for us too, Billy.

Okay. Hey, uh, Eva,

you wanna walk me to my door?

Okay.

I'll be right back.

"Eva, do you wanna

walk me to my door?"

Man, what are we doing here?

I don't know.

- Hey, Willie.

- What?

You wanna stick around much longer

here in Cleveland?

- Why? You wanna go?

- I don't know. Yeah. Kind of.

We could go back tomorrow

or the next day or somethin'.

You know, it's funny.

You come to someplace new,

and everything looks just the same.

No kiddin', Eddie.

Whew.

It's so cold here.

Yeah. I kinda wanna

get out of here.

Wish Aunt Lotte

would just speak English.

She's so stubborn. It's funny.

Just like the rest of the family.

Yeah.

Is that guy Billy all right?

- Yeah, he's a nice friend.

- Yeah.

- Let me tell you a joke. All right?

- Mm-hmm.

There's three guys

and they're walking down the street.

One guy says to the other one,

"Hey, your shoe's untied."

He says, "I know that."

And they walk- No.

There's two guys,

they're walking down the street...

and one says to the other, "Your shoe's untied,"

and the other guy says, "I know that."

They walk a couple blocks further,

they see a third friend, and he says...

"H... Your shoe's unti...

Your shoe's un -"

Uh, I can't remember this joke.

But it's good.

- I'm sure.

- Yeah.

It's a pretty good game, right?

I am the winner.

Hey, now, that's three times in a row

you've won.

- I am lucky in card. I win every time.

- That's amazing.

I'll get it.

Hello? Hi.

How you doing, Billy?

I'm okay.

Oh, yeah. Sh*t, I forgot.

I can't.

My cousin and his friend are leaving

tomorrow. I gotta be with them tonight.

No, I really should.

Oh, come on, Billy!

You can understand that, can't you?

Oh, don't give me that.

You know they're not more important.

It's just that they're leaving.

Come on, Billy.

God!

Just call me next week. All right?

We'll talk about it.

Okay? Bye.

- I am the winner.

- Oh, not again.

- So, you guys wanna go see the big lake?

- Anything but this.

- Well, I don't know -

- Come on, Eddie.

- Go and jump in the lake.

- Aunt Lotte!

Let's go.

- You'll play later with me?

- Yeah. Yeah.

- I wanna win at least once.

- Okay. I give you a chance, let you win.

- We'll see you later.

- Okay.

Well, this is it. Lake Erie.

Man, look at all this snow.

Man, it's - it's beautiful.

It's not always frozen.

So...

It was really nice of you guys

to come all the way here to see me.

- Hey, it was nice of you to be here.

- Eddie!

Oh. We just -You know, we thought

we'd come out and see how you were doing.

Oh.

It's kind of a drag here, really.

Well, good-bye... again.

Good-bye, Eva.

So, if you guys win a lot of money at the racetracks,

you should come and try to kidnap me.

Yeah. We'll take you someplace warm.

This place is awful.

See ya.

- See ya.

- Bye, Eva.

It was nice seeing you again.

- How much money we got left?

- We got a lot.

Count it.

Hey, Willie, why are you

always telling me what to do?

It seems like if I don't tell you what to do,

you don't do anything at all.

- I wanna know exactly how much we got.

- We got $550 left.

Which means we spent 50.

You ever been to Florida?

Florida?

Yeah, it's beautiful down there.

- Uh-huh.

- You know, white beaches, girls with bikinis.

- Yeah.

- Cape Canaveral, Miami Beach.

Cape Canaveral! Miami Beach!

That's right.

They got pelicans down there, and

flamingos... all those weird birds.

- You been there?

- Nah, I never been there.

You're a jerk, Eddie.

You know that?

No, come on.

- What do you say we go down to Florida?

- Yeah?

Yeah. Go back, pick up Eva,

drive down to Florida.

We got the car.

- Yeah? You're not kidding?

- No.

Well, hell, it beats

going back to New York.

That's a good idea.

I'd like to go to Florida.

- Yeah, you never been there. Right?

- No.

Where's the next exit?

I don't want you to take her away!

Don't worry.

We're going on a little vacation.

- Come on!

- We'll be back soon.

Good-bye.

Good-for-nothing...

You son of a b*tch.

God, I'm so glad.

Thank you guys for rescuing me.

I can't believe

we're going to Florida.

- You bring your little bikini along?

- Sure.

There are alligators in Florida, right?

- Not that.

- It's Screamin' Jay.

Aw, that's awful.

You're the same.

He's my main man.

- Yeah, I like this.

- You like this stuff?

Thank you, Eddie.

Back me up.

It's horrible.

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