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I need a little help with that one.

- You passed out.

- Who wouldn't?

The coins just need

to be papered for the bank.

The condoms and the twists

are inventory.

The chicken's Brainy Betty.

I take it Betty's one

of the exotics?

She plays tic-tac-toe.

What makes her so brainy?

She wins nine times out of ten.

You want some coffee?

You got a machine for that too?

Half a dozen

in the next three counties.

But given the circumstances

of your immediate past...

I would suggest the real bean.

You wouldn't happen to have a pair

of chinos and a belt, would ya?

"Boo-boo"?

Story of my life.

Wait. Don't forget Lorraine.

Peek's Beauty Academy,

right outside Red Grove...

near Green Gene's Pickle Factory.

Buy a burger around here, chances

are it's Green Gene's under the bun.

Anyway...

seein' as the beauty academy was

next door to the pickle factory...

we always had plenty of people

to practice on.

So one day I'm doin'

this tint job on this lady...

and my instructor comes over

and is giving me...

The collar picked up

a little perfume...

so if you got a suspicious wife,

I'd run some soap through it.

I don't need to worry about that.

Headin' home?

I don't think so.

I got a girlfriend up in Bayview.

That oughta be enough for now.

- You got a coat?

- Yeah.

- Money?

- Sure.

Well, thanks for the eggs.

Everything.

Thanks for the company.

It must get lonely

on the road sometimes.

Like anything else,

you're born to it.

Well, you're a born listener,

that's for sure.

Depends on who's talkin'.

- What's your name?

- Kay.

All right, Kay.

You girls watch yourselves.

- You're sure this is no trouble?

- No use you waitin' seven hours...

on a bus to Bayview when I can

get you there in two.

I just hate to take ya too far

off the beaten path.

There's a man I can see on the way,

if you don't mind a detour or two.

- It's greased.

- Huh?

The wristband.

By the way, I get those novelties

straight from Korea.

I can do you ten on the dollar,

as many as you want.

Bayview's a little south for you,

ain't it, Arlis?

Who said anything about Bayview?

'55, '56, somewhere in there.

Eisenhower days.

- '57.

- Whatever.

- How'd you know about Bayview?

- Reese Davies.

- Who's Reese Davies?

- A moron.

Used to own a movie theater

down that way.

At least, his father did,

till he died.

Reese ran it into the ground

in about 18 months.

I had a couple of cigarette machines

in the lobby from his old man's day.

Then when the theater went south,

Reese tried to claim 'em as assets.

It's his wife. Reese's.

Ugly as sin, ain't it?

Maybe some music'll

take the bite out of it.

Keep going. Sometimes you can

pick up K-MOO drivin' south.

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