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So, let's open it up to the town.
By a show of hands, who
here likes swimming?
(MURMURS OF AGREEMENT)
SCOTT:
No, wait.- No, don't raise your hands.
- Oh, come on.
That's not what we're debating
here. It's a trick question.
here, to be quite honest,
'cause I do love Alex.
But I also love swimming.
Shut up, Joe.
I love swimming. I'm Martha.
'Cause, you know, with
three kids and a job,
it's the only me time I get.
Of course you want the pool, Martha.
It's right next to your house.
You know what Laura brings to a potluck?
How was I supposed to know that
That invitation was vague.
And you don't have to keep telling
everyone your name's Martha, they know.
But that's who I am, I'm Martha.
All right, ladies, enough, enough.
Let's bring this to a vote.
Those in favor of
eliminating the scholarship
and building the
town pool, vote yes.
Those opposed, who want
one family to profit
while the rest of
the town suffers, no.
Yes?
All right, looks like
the yeses have it.
- (SIGHS)
- Oh, please.
I'll tell you one thing I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna take a hate crap in that pool.
SCOTT:
We can barely affordour mortgage, and now this?
It's time we face the
truth, we're bad parents.
Remember that mother who
threw her baby down a well?
We're worse than that mother.
You know, when I became
a dad, I made a choice.
To be the dad my father wasn't. Right?
To play with my daughter,
to support her dreams and talents,
and, yeah, maybe I could
checking on what was in the bank.
But instead, I put my heart in the bank.
I deposited love, a lot of it.
And that's not gonna be the cover
story of The Wall Street Journal,
but it's the headline of my heart.
- Does that make sense?
- No, honey, I lost you halfway through.
Okay, the bottom line is that Alex thinks
we can afford tuition, and we can't.
We need to tell her the truth.
We always tell the truth.
That's what we always say.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I'm not gonna do it.
- Me neither.
We gotta lie about everything,
because that's what parents do.
The job of being a parent, number one job,
is to keep this crazy sh*t from their kids.
'Cause otherwise, the kids are gonna realize
that we don't know what we're doing!
- Exactly, that's what our parents did!
- Yeah.
My dad had cancer and never told us!
And what you didn't know, didn't hurt you.
It was weird. But I got over it.
And then he died, so...
- Yeah.
- Hey, guys.
Hi.
I heard about the scholarship.
So, I guess I can't go to Bucknell.
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