Bus Stop Page #3

You just drive your bus.

Come on, Virge, let's go register.

Is that our hotel?

Bo!

Bo, wait on the corner.

You gotta try to remember.

They go when it's green,

they stop when it's red.

Never seen so many gals.

Must be a hundred head of 'em.

Bo!

Wait till it turns green.

Kiss me quick and go

my honey

Kiss me quick and go

To cheat surprise and prying eyes

VIRGE:
Bo, you're gonna wash

yourself down to a nub!

What are you doin' anyway?

Ain't got nothin' like this at home.

Shower and bath at the same time!

Bo, you have a terrible habit

of overdoin' everything.

- Come on!

- Yee-haw!

Listen, Bo, if you're gonna take all night,

I'm gonna step across the street.

That there Blue Dragon place

seems kind of interesting.

You go ahead, Virge.

I'll be over there in a couple of minutes.

Just wait outside.

Why ain't you outside where you belong?

(SCREAMS)

I've heard enough of you,

you ignorant hillbilly!

Now get out there and get to work!

You'd better change into

your costume, honey. You're late.

And he called me an ignorant hillbilly.

How do you like that?

Well, ain't ya? I don't mean ignorant.

I mean, but you do come from the Ozarks.

I ain't sung hillbilly since I was...

Well, not since I turned chantooze.

I've been tryin' to be somebody.

(SIGHS)

Can you imagine if Hildegarde

was jumpin' down between her numbers,

sittin' in some truck driver's lap?

I don't know why you just don't quit.

I can't.

Look.

I don't get paid till Wednesday.

I owe for my room and everything.

Besides that,

it took me too long to get this far.

What's that line for?

That line?

You might say that this line here

is the history of my life up till now.

- See right there where it starts?

- Yeah.

That's River Gulch,

the little old town where I was born.

River Gulch. I never even heard of it.

Well, it ain't there anymore anyway.

Floods come and washed us all away,

all except me and my baby sister, Nan.

- Oh.

- I just picked her up

and took her along here, this line.

- Yeah?

- Till we got to Lubbock, Texas.

- You know what happened there?

- What?

Nan got this job as a waitress,

and I got to workin' in Liggett's Drugstore.

- Yeah?

- And, this amateur contest opened.

And, Nan said to me,

"Honey, why don't you enter

yourself in that contest?

"You've been watchin' people in movies."

Well, Nan and I used to live in the movies.

"You've been watchin' people put over

their songs and gestures," you know.

And so, I did it, and I won it.

- First prize?

- No. Second prize.

A couple of boys jugglin' milk bottles,

they won first prize.

Anyway, that's how I got

my direction and all.

Direction?

Oh, sure.

If you don't have a direction,

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