Goodbye, Columbus Page #4

- Oh, what did you study?

- I was an English major.

- English?

- Literature.

- Kind of unusual, isn't it? For a boy?

- Well, he wants to be a teacher.

No, no, no, not necessarily.

Carlotta, please, I'm gonna be late.

It's Harriette! Harriette's

on the phone! Harriette!

Carlotta? Is the bicarbonate

still in the downstairs toilet?

- Yes, it is.

- Oh, those damn radishes.

Why don't we have coffee

and dessert outside.

- Carlotta!

- Yes.

- Bring the chocolate cake outside.

- OK.

It was a wonderful dinner.

Hold on, I can't breathe.

I can't make it.

Go, run. Grab it.

Don't stand too far, now.

Almost, almost.

- Straighten up.

- Well...

- Good girl.

- What kind of work do you do?

I'm working

at the library at the moment.

The public library?

I've been there for about a year now,

ever since I got out of the Army.

Oh, well, it must be very interesting,

the library business.

I don't know. Yeah, I guess so.

No, not very.

Can somebody please move the car

blocking the convertible? I'm late.

- Is that me?

- I don't know.

I'm blocking the convertible.

No, I'm blocking the convertible,

you're blocking me.

- Chocolate.

- Yummy.

- You don't say "thank you" anymore?

- Thank you.

You little doll.

Where did she meet him?

Who knows? At the club.

He eats like a bird.

Come on, let's play.

Probably.

That's probably why I did it.

- Wanna play? Daddy's tired.

- Yeah, take over for me, will you?

Go ahead, go ahead.

I haven't touched a basketball

since I got out of high school.

Be good to your daddy,

he's getting old.

- No, it's not true.

- Hi, beautiful.

Hello.

Daddy, I missed.

Can I take it over again?

Certainly. You want to take it

over again, take it over.

- I don't let guests win.

- I see.

Finally.

- Can I take that over again?

- No.

- Daddy?

- Forget it.

What does your friend do

in the library?

I haven't the slightest idea.

Is that the kind of work

he wants to do?

Why?

- I won, Daddy!

- Good girl.

I won, I won, I won!

I beat him, Daddy!

- Why'd you let her win?

- I didn't, she beat me.

Come on, even Ron lets her win,

and he's a semipro.

- That's my baby.

- It's time to go brush your teeth.

- Ten more minutes.

- It's late.

- Oh, ten more minutes, please.

- It's late. You know what time it is?

- So? She'll sleep ten minutes later.

- Oh, Ben.

My tsatskeleh, right?

Wanna take a drive

or go to the movies? What?

Oh, I don't know.

- Brush your teeth and be good.

- OK.

Leave her alone.

She'll get tired of him.

Klugman? Klugman,

can I talk to you a minute?

Would you take

the main information desk?

Ericson called. His mom's

not well, he can't come in.

There's always something. Always.

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