Act of Faith Page #2

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he was always working.

Started hanging out with guys

who didn't mean me no good.

You know how that goes.

- Well, whatever happened to you

ain't got nothing to do

with me and my family,

so you need to learn how to keep

your little nose in

your own Kool-Aid.

- Y'all got Kool-Aid?

(laughing)

- Ms. Beatrice.

- Can we make this

quick, Mr. Brady?

Because I need to be out

there collecting my tips.

- You know, the bible says,

"He that tilleth his land

shall be satisfied with bread,

"but he that followeth vanity

"shall be void of

all understanding."

- What the hell-eth do

that have to do with me?

I ain't tilling no more,

nothing else for

no $7.77 an hour.

Which is why I need

to be out there

collecting my tips and not in

here flabbergasting with you.

- You've been working

here since you were what?

18 years old, I remember the day

you walked in here

like it was yesterday.

But pretty soon it's coming

time for you to move on.

You got to get some

ambition about yourself.

I know this place ain't

exactly the Taj Mahal

or Roscoe's for that matter.

But me and Ms. Lilly

built this place

from the ground up and

it's all we ever wanted.

You should want

more for yourself.

- I do.

I got dreams.

What you trying

to say Mr. Brady?

- I ain't trying to say nothing.

But you walk around here

with your mouth poked out,

angry at everybody all day long.

Why, because you know

you could do better.

- I don't quite

understand the direction

this conversation is taking.

- Shartruce, you need

to start thinking

about the next

chapter in your life.

This ain't it.

I'm giving you your

two weeks notice.

- Mmhm.

Mmhm, just like that.

I knew the minute Ms. Lilly died

you was gonna stone

plumb lose your mind.

I wouldn't be surprised

if ain't up there

at that Magic City

tipping all our money

to them stripper girls, which

is why we can't get no raise,

because you out

there making it rain.

Look, I been here

longer than anybody else

and you know I deserve a raise.

But instead you just

gonna toss me out

like some old dirty rag.

- Shartruce, it's for your

own good, it's out of love.

- Oh, old man, if I had all my

rent and money for the month,

I'd clean walk out of

here on you right now.

Oh.

- Huh?

- The customers don't like

the changes you've made

to the hotcake special.

Now tell on that.

(snapping)

- Father, forgive her, for she

know not what she's saying.

(laughing)

- Girl, can you believe

he actually fired me?

- No, he didn't?

Who the hell's gonna take over

my shifts when I need to study?

- Thanks for having so much

concern about your friend.

- Girl, I'm sorry.

It's just that I really

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