Test Pilot Page #11

To give me now?

I don't know.

Who do you want?

Jerry carter's

All right.

Sure,

He's all right.

Ok with me. We'll take the

Sister ship up tomorrow.

Fine. How about a little layoff first?

I don't want any, see?

I'm a test pilot.

We live long enough

To build a floor up there

So that someday the world can go to

Bed on it. That's the idea, isn't it?

You're

A tough man.

How else do you figure it? And

Listen, I haven't started yet.

I'll go back up there.

I'm going back up there to pay the

Sky back for what she did to me today.

I'll pay her back.

I'll wring her neck!

And I'll show ann something she

Won't forget in a hurry either!

I'll show her! I'll go back

Up there, and I'll stay there!

I'll never come down!

I'll...

What-what am I

Talking about?

I can't talk-what did you

Let me talk like this for?

What's the matter

With me?

You went home,

Didn't you?

I don't know. I don't

Know what came off.

She's going screwy,

I guess. I don't know.

Maybe she's

In love with you.

Hmm. You should have been there.

It sounded more like she hated me.

If she doesn't love you, she's got

A mighty funny way of showing it.

You should have been with us

This morning after you went up.

When the general

Asked her for lunch,

She said until you

Came down, she was dead.

Did she say that?

Yes, sir. That's

Just what she said.

She's a nice girl. I always

Thought I got on with her all right.

I can see how another guy would

Hang around the house with her

And have a couple of babies and all

That applesauce, but that's not for me.

You know I'm right.

You know me.

Oh, sure, Jim.

I know.

It was in this very

Office I bawled you out

Because you brought a girl to

New york instead of a record.

You remember that,

Don't you?

Yeah, sure.

Remember what

You called her?

You called her

Another peach.

Yeah?

Yeah, and while she never

Got much of a start with me,

I have to admit

She's just that.

She's a nice girl, but we

Got no business being married.

You can say this

Much for it anyway-

It comes in handy

Tonight because...

Well, Jim...

I think if that oil

Hadn't spouted over kansas

And she was

In kansas tonight

Instead of

In your home here,

It would be

Pretty tough.

Wouldn't it?

Ah... Yeah.

I'll give her that.

I kind of wish

She knew that.

I think it

Would please her.

Do you think she'd

Like to hear that?

You know how it is.

You know how women take

Those little things.

Always seems to please them

For some reason or other.

It does, huh?

Yes.

Yeah?

Oh, yes.

Well, then...

Do you really think it would please

Her if I went home and told her that?

I think it would

Make her very happy.

Well... I don't mind

Doing that,

If you say so.

I'd say so, Jim.

All right.

I guess I will.

Thanks for the advice.

That's

All right, Jim.

Thursday, this is Drake.

Say, listen, thursday,

Uh... I've just been

Talking to Jim.

Where is he?

Is he all right?

I said

Terrible things.

I know all about it. There's

Nothing to worry about at all.

He's on his way home.

Just listen, thursday, and I'm going to

Tell you something you're going to like.

He's all through

Test piloting.

He's in love

With you, thursday.

Oh.

Yes, "oh."

He doesn't know this

Himself, but I'm telling you,

He'd rather be with you

Than in the sky,

And when a man's heart's down

Here, he's no more good up there.

Oh.

Don't ever let him know

Anything about it,

And pretty soon Mr. Jim Lane

Will be working on the ground,

And he'll never know

How he got there.

Oh, Mr. Drake,

Are you sure?

I've only made one mistake

In my life, thursday,

And that's the first time

I saw you from a distance.

Good-bye, thursday.

You're going to hear a lot

Of squawking from him,

But don't let that

Bother you.

Just smile up your sleeve

And let him squawk.

I won't mind

The squawking.

I'll just...

What's that,

Thursday?

I said, I hope he squawks

And squawks and squawks.

I've been talking for

30 minutes to you boys,

And you're probably looking

Wise and giving me the bird.

I don't know what I'm doing here

Talking to you in the first place.

I got out of the army once,

And I don't know how I got back.

And I'm not flying. I'm talking,

If you can beat that one.

Anybody got

Any questions?

All right. Uh...

Good luck and...

And, uh... Well,

Go on and get in.

What's the idea? What are

You doing over here anyway?

You weren't here when I

Was handing out the baloney.

Yes, dear,

We were here.

We?

Hello, pal. How are you?

I didn't see you.

Haven't I told you not to bring

The kid around a place like this?

Do you know how many

Engines there are over there?

Don't you realize that his ears

Are delicate? Might hurt him.

What's the matter with

Those guys, anyway?

Come on, barney. Get up

There. What's eating you?

I bet you

They don't make it.

I don't know why I'm not

Up there in front of them.

A man spends his whole

Life getting somewhere,

And where

Does he end up?

Nowhere, just where

He started.

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