Christmas in July Page #5

Yes, sir.

I've been watching you for some time,

Mr. MacDonald.

Yes, sir. It used to

make me kind of nervous.

Not nervous any more?

- No, sir.

Are you a drinking man, then?

- Sir?

This is part of your yesterday's work.

I believe your number is 112?

Yes, sir.

The computing machine

is almost foolproof,

Mr. MacDonald,

yet you managed to miss your total by

a little matter of $11,000 on this one sheet.

To what do you attribute that?

I, er... I don't know, Mr. Waterbury.

You know simple arithmetic, don't you?

You know the difference between addition,

subtraction and possibly multiplication?

Yes, sir. I'm pretty good at it.

Have you troubles at home? You

henpecked? Suffering from a broken heart?

Had your teeth examined lately?

Or are you purely and simply

incapable of doing your work?

Well, I... I guess it's the contest,

Mr. Waterbury,

the Maxford House contest.

I had no idea it was hurting my work.

How much is the prize?

- The first prize is $25,000.

Yes.

I used to think about $25,000 too,

and what I'd do with it.

That I'd be a failure if I didn't get a hold of it.

And then one day I realized

I was never going to have $25,000.

And then another day a little bit later,

considerably later,

I realized something else,

something I'm imparting to you now,

Mr. MacDonald.

I'm not a failure. I'm a success.

You see, ambition is all right if it works.

But no system could be right where only

half of one per cent were successes...

...and all the rest were failures.

I'm not a failure. I'm a success.

So are you if you earn your own living and

pay your bills and look the world in the eye.

I hope you win your

$25,000, Mr. MacDonald.

But if you shouldn't happen to,

don't worry about it.

Now get the heck back to your desk

and try to improve your arithmetic.

Yes, sir, Mr. Waterbury.

Thank you.

- It's all right.

Wow. Oh, honey, look.

Hey, everybody. Hey, everybody.

Come here?

Get up here, honey.

Wow.

There comes a time in everybody's life

when he's got to get up and let it rip.

Wow. In other words, boys and girls,

I just won the $25,000 first prize

in the Maxford House contest.

(Cheering)

Hey, give me a phone.

Boy, this is gonna be good.

Hello? Give me Astoria 59970.

This is really gonna be good.

Hello, is this Mrs. Schwartz?

- Yes.

This is Jimmy. Hello, Mrs. Schwartz.

I hate to bother you

but could I talk to my mom? It's important.

Thank you. I'll let you use my phone

when I get one.

(Laughter)

Hello, Mum? This is Jimmy.

I'm going to tell you something.

Don't be frightened.

You're not hurt?

- Course I'm not hurt.

Mum, would I call you up

from under a streetcar?

Mum, are you a rich woman

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