Anywhere But Here Page #4

-No.

Hoover Dam?

No.

I'm not reaIIy into dams.

"I'II get a Iawyer and sue

for invasion of privacy.

-Stop reading my diary, Mother. "

-CooI.

-Did she say anything?

-Never did it again.

-I wish they'd Ieave me aIone.

-I Iove being aIone.

-Hi.

-Hi, Peter.

-You run good. You got good form.

-Yeah.

Not a cIoud in the sky today.

-You ever read T.S. EIiot?

-What?

Four Quartets. ReaIIy good.

Why do you run with a book?

BaIance, I guess.

Kariba Dam. It impounds

the Zambezi River, forms Kariba Lake.

-It's nice.

-I went to paint it after coIIege.

You painted pictures of dams?

It was my dream:

traveI the worId and paint.

What happened?

I don't know. "One dam thing

Ied to another dam thing. "

I became a history teacher.

But one of these days--

One of these days.

Oh, my God. Get away from my car'

Look what he's doing'

No. Stop it'

Look how deep--

Look what he did to my car'

Mom, it's just a scratch.

Just a scratch?

Do you know how much it costs

to fix "just a scratch"?

I can't work at this schooI.

I can't taIk to you! No sympathy'

The tiIes are aII cracked.

Chipped.

We're sinking.

I have to keep us afIoat.

Every time I think we're starting

to get somewhere. . .

. . .everything faIIs apart.

Jesus'

Nothing works in this apartment'

It's just a scratch on the car.

Maybe if you got yourseIf. . .

. . .an after-schooI job

you'd know what I'm taIking about.

You don't know what things cost,

how to manage money--

What is that now?

-You didn't pay the biII, did you?

-I paid it'

Maybe I won't even pay the biII again.

Maybe we'II. . . .

We couId Iive. . .

. . .in the dark. . .

. . .Iike IittIe bears in a cave,

huh, Pooh Bear?

Just. . . .

Okay, Iet's go to Denny's.

Ann?

-Ann, where are you?

-I'm going to bed.

I reaIIy thought I paid it.

I reaIIy think I did pay it.

I Iove you. Say hi to Benny

and UncIe Jimmy and Aunt CaroI.

Lots of kisses. Bye.

Hi, Mom. How are y'aII doing?

What isn't fair?

I put her on because Ann

needs a decent home. . .

. . .so we need cash for a down payment.

What I need from you is some heIp.

SeII my Iand, that's how.

It's the Iand that Daddy--

She hung up.

Grandma hung up on you?

Yeah.

-Let's dress up and go out to dinner.

-What?

You Iove that French pIace.

That's what we need.

We need a bed for me,

a desk, sheets, toweIs. . .

-. . .not to eat in a French restaurant.

-Honey.

My daddy used to say:

"When Iife's rough. . .

. . .and you onIy have a dime,

get your shoes shined. "

Get dressed.

They raised their prices.

Why don't the two of us--?

-Want to hear our speciaIs?

-We know what we want.

-I'd Iike to hear the speciaIs.

-We have veaI St. Jacques--

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