Blue in the Face Page #4

Yeah.

Like the Indian over there.

- Yeah?

- Yeah. I, I stand over there, get rigid.

Auggie says that, uh...

He says that first of all, you...

He says first of all,

you like somebody.

And, um, and then

you kiss 'em.

Then after you kiss 'em,

uh, you do the dirty.

Yeah. Yeah, doin' the dirty.

Yeah. He says,

and after that, uh...

then you find out if, uh,

you can fall in love with 'em.

And if you fall in love with 'em,

you marry somebody else.

Hey. Hey!

- Hey, Dot.

- Hi.

- How are you, kid?

- Well, I'm just great. I'm just great.

Can I have gum?

Everything's real f***in' great.

What brings you

to sunny Brooklyn?

I just drove in. I wanted to talk to ya,

if I can talk to ya.

Can I talk to ya?

Do you have a minute?

- You caught me at a bad time. I'm taking inventory.

- Ooh, a minute.

A minute.

I'm so f***ing pissed off!

Goddamn it, I'm so f***ing

pissed off at Vinny. I just...

I just wanted to talk to you about it.

I don't know why I want to talk to you about it.

But you know him.

I don't know.

- I don't know him.

- What happened?

He just drives me out of my

f***in' mind. You know what I mean?

He promised me that he was gonna take me to

Las Vegas. You heard about that and everything.

Then at the last minute

of course, another time, he pulls out.

And he says, "We're gonna postpone it."

Or cancel it. Whatever the f*** he said.

- But I'm not goin'. He's not goin' with me, anyway.

- Yeah?

And I'm mad because

I was looking forward to it.

I really wanted to go.

I've been wanting to go my whole life.

But instead of being able to go there,

what did I do? I sat there washing dishes...

making tuna fish casserole for 15 years,

and I don't get to go to Las Vegas.

And I'm pissed,

and I can't get on this chair!

Dot, baby, he must've had

a good reason for canceling.

He doesn't have a good reason.

There is no good reason.

There's a million reasons,

but none of them are good.

I need to have some excitement.

I wanted to go...

you know, where there's things

happening at night...

after 6:
00.

- How about your bed?

- Ha.

- Like I said, that's why

I want to go to Las Vegas.

- Come on!

- Come on? You don't know.

- So the guy, one time he broke a promise.

- It isn't one time!

It's every time.

It's 15 years' worth of times.

It's not one time. If it was one time,

do you think I'd be this upset?

If it was one time, I'd be like,

"Oh, that's okay. That's okay, Vinny."

But it's always.

We never do anything fun!

I'm a fun girl.

- Can I really talk to you? I mean, really talk to you?

- Of course, Dot.

- Well, he's a... I don't know.

- Whoa. Whoa.

- Hey, Violet. How are you?

- Hi, Dot.

- Hi.

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