You and Me Page #2

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If you wanna learn any new grips.

I'm just a salesman here.

Okay.

I'm sold.

Thanks.

Oh, and I want some tennis shoes.

What do you think I need?

I wouldn't know anything about that.

All shoes are on the first floor.

I'll show you while they're wrapping

the racket.

Step this way, please.

Okay.

Do you play?

Tennis, you mean?

Yes.

You look like you'd be pretty good.

How are you?

Well, I never had any complaints.

Who have you played with?

Oh, a lot of good players.

You wouldn't know them.

I'd like to play with you some time.

What? Oh, I'm sorry, but...

I'm leaving town tonight.

This gentleman will take care of you.

You'll find your racket at the wrapping counter.

Thank you. Good-bye.

Good luck.

Thank you.

Hey, Joe!

Hello, Gimpy.

I just seen Mickey.

I don't think he likes you going away.

So what.

I'd be careful, Joe. He's a hard guy.

That worries me.

He wants to see you before you leave.

Why don't you go to old man Morris

about Mickey and them guys?

He knows you're trying to stay

on the level.

He'd make them lay off.

Since when have I been a squealer?

Okay, Joe. Don't get sore.

Sure you don't want me to go with you

to the bus station or anything?

Thanks, I got something to attend to

before I go.

I fixed up a couple of letters

for you to take along.

Thanks.

Well, they may help.

I hate to see you leave, Joe.

It isn't because anyone's found out

about you, is it?

No, sir.

Everybody's been swell.

California's a long way off.

I take it then that your reason

is something personal.

Yes, sir.

That's it, it's something personal.

Mr. Morris, look.

I wanna thank you, see.

When anyone asks me now where I worked last,

I don't turn around and walk out.

You're supposed to be a very

dangerous character.

They told me that a man with your record

would never go straight.

I'm glad that you proved them wrong.

Keep it up, kid.

I know it hasn't been easy.

Good-bye, Joe.

Remember...

you can always come back.

Hello, Joe.

Hello, Mickey.

You got a minute?

No.

Now, listen, Joe. I got a proposition

oughta interest a smart guy like you.

I'm leaving town tonight.

I figured you wouldn't stick to no

8 o'clock job much longer.

What are you gonna do?

Get another 8 o'clock job.

Then why the trip?

They tell me the climate

will do me good.

Everything grows big out there.

Yeah? Well don't get too big

for your old friends, Joe.

We might not like it.

That'll be too bad.

Hello.

Hello.

Been waiting long?

Seems like days.

Where's your grip?

Oh, I checked it at the bus station.

I've been looking at that again.

Just imagine some girls will go in there

and buy it and think nothing of it.

Just smell 'em, isn't it?

Joe, it's Hour of Ecstasy.

Is it?

Joe... you just don't understand, I guess.

There isn't anything in the world

can build a girl up like good perfume.

It does something for her soul, kind of.

See?

No.

It must be very simple to be a man.

Would you like to be one?

No!

Uh... yes, I don't know.

Sometimes I think it would be easier

to be a man.

But then, women are somewhat...

You don't think very much of women,

do you?

I never did.

Before.

I'll never forget the time you stayed up

all night to tell me not to get discouraged.

After you found out I'd been in jail.

I didn't find out. You told me.

I never told anybody else.

Why did you tell me?

I could never believe that a fellow

and a girl could be friends like this.

It is unusual.

Where are we heading?

I don't know. I thought you knew.

What do you say we go

and dance around once?

I'd love to.

Let's go.

It may sound funny, but I get a kick out of

going into a place like this.

There was a time that I couldn't.

Against parole rules.

No drinking...

even couldn't go where they served it

or they'd put you right back in storage.

Well, here we are.

It's pretty good.

Very good.

How about a drink?

I'd love it. Lime with lots of ice.

Beg your pardon.

Bread and butter.

Look...

how about a real drink, just this once?

I better not, Joe.

Aw, come on.

I'm gonna have one.

I'm gonna need one pretty bad

when I have to say good-bye to you.

Come on.

All right. I guess I'll need one, too.

Swell, here.

You sit down here and I'll be right back.

Hello.

Do you like dancing?

No, thank you.

One little dance won't hurt you.

I'm sorry, I'm with someone.

Why, if you're sorry,

why don't you get rid of him.

Honey, you're only kidding.

You ain't with nobody.

Please.

Come on, get up out of there.

Relax, sonny, relax.

You heard what I said. Get up!

Joe!

Joe!

Joe, don't!

Joe, please don't do anything.

Come on, break it up. Get back there.

Where do you think you are?

We're all ladies and gentlemen here.

There wasn't going to be no fight anyway.

He was just four-flushing for the dame.

He was cut short when you got here,

wasn't ya?

Break it up, boys, keep on dancing.

Don't look back.

You shouldn't fight.

No...

I guess I shouldn't.

Not me.

I wonder if they transfer

those records to California.

You're not going to start worrying

about that again.

You're starting new.

Maybe.

Joe, years from now you'll hardly

remember all this.

You'll see.

You'll meet some girl and...

fall in love and settle down

just like everyone else.

You're no different.

I am different.

You ought to forget that.

You have no record.

You've never been in jail.

That's why you're going away.

I wouldn't get married like that.

No, I guess you wouldn't.

I guess you're going to tell her.

And that'll end it.

No. Not if she loves you enough.

I'd like to sing you a song...

about the sort of man we girls

all dream about.

If he ever comes along,

he may leave happiness or misery.

But it's heaven just the same.

They call him good for nothing

He isn't much to see...

but I've a funny feeling

he's the right guy for me.

In a waterfront dive

full of wretches and vagabonds

planning their ill-gotten gains

there came a mysterious stranger

with the salt of the sea in his veins.

Though he seemed to be going downhill

in a world of forgotten men.

Still he gave me the queerest

sort of thrill

that decided me there and then to say

doggone you, snap out of it.

This is love

There wasn't a doubt of it.

They called him good for nothing

He isn't much to see

But I am sure that he is

the right guy

for me.

There will come a day

when he'll sail away

without even saying good-bye.

Though I'll swear at him

and I'll flare at him

I'll be his

till the day I die.

And as I stand bewildered

watching the lonely sea

I'll always say that he was

the right guy

for me.

Do you think a girl would mind that?

If she knew I changed?

You'll find someone.

We gotta go and get you a good seat.

I heard it isn't so good to sit

over the wheels.

All right, come on.

I wanna fix my face.

All right.

Ignore him.

Don't pay any attention to him.

I won't. Don't worry.

I won't be a minute.

But you're always sitting down.

Come and get it.

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