Dry Rain Page #2

We're hitting the bricks.

[Joey:
]

Is he tracing the calls?

Are they closing in?

[Dad:
]

When aren't they?

Vacation, Joey!

They don't trace calls

for a vacation.

[Joey:
]

Dad?

Hello?

[Dad:
]

Yeah yeah I know.

You just

don't understand this.

[Joey:
]

Then tell me.

[Dad:
] I don't

understand it either.

[]

[Dad:
]

It's nice up here.

Smells good.

[Joey:
]

It's the conifers.

Pine, spruce,

fir, hemlock,

cedar...

[Dad:
SNIFFS]

[Dad:
] Smells like

one of those car deodorizers.

How'd you like that...

living in a place,

that smells like

a giant Christmas tree

hanging off your dash.

[CHUCKLES]

[Joey:
]

Where do you live now, dad?

[Dad:
] Aww...

near where we used to live.

[Joey:
]

In the desert?

[Dad:
]

On the edge.

[Joey:
]

Never smells like this.

[Dad:
]

No.

Nothing like this.

[]

[Dad:
] Do you

ever miss Arizona?

[Joey:
]

Mom calls it Bedrock.

[Dad:
]

Bedrock?

[Joey:
]

Yeah!

Like in the Flintstones.

[Dad:
] Great! Our whole lifes

turned into a cartoon.

[]

[Dad:
SIGHS]

[Dad:
]

Are you ten yet?

[Joey:
]

Almost.

[Dad:
] So,

what do you think?

[Joey:
]

What do you mean?

[Dad:
] Well,

I mean I... emm...

driving all over Canada

with a freaking genius

and I'm trying to figure out

everything on my own.

[Joey:
] I'm not smart

about everything.

[Dad:
]

Sure, you are.

That school you go to,

that's a

genius factory

if I ever saw one.

[Joey:
]

School?

[Dad:
] Man,

your mom and me.

We had some knock down

drag outs about that.

You know I just wanted you

to be a normal kid.

And she was like

accelerated this

and accelerated that.

I remember...

that was the first day

that you'd come back

from those special classes

that you was taking.

And,

I don't think you was

but six at the time.

And you s... [LAUGHS]

you told us you quit.

You know

you just up and quit.

And you said,

it's supposed to be

accelerated not excessive.

[LAUGHS]

I just about busted a gut,

but your Mom...

she turned you

right around and

she marched you

back the next day.

[Joey:
]

It wasn't that bad.

[Dad:
]

Yeah, well?

You're definitely

the brains of this operation here.

So what do you think?

[Joey:
] Mom won't give you

any money for me?

[Dad:
]

Nah Joey

I need the money.

I'm busted flat.

But that's not

why I got you.

I did that to show her,

you know,

what she done to me.

[Joey:
] Did you even try

to keep me?

Get visitation?

[Dad:
]

Not at the time.

I couldn't.

I wanted to.

[Joey:
]

I had a life with you.

You owe me for that.

[Dad:
]

Oh, don't... don't.

[]

[Dad:
] Want to go

to Arizona with me?

[Joey:
]

We'd starve, Dad.

[Dad:
]

We could eat grass.

[Joey:
]

There is no grass in Arizona.

[Dad:
]

Golf courses.

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