It's My Turn Page #3

And I don't care

Chicken broke toe

And I don't care

Chicken broke toe

And I don't care

Da-boo, boo, boo, boo

I'm all packed.

This concept of housing

holds out the promise

of a life of dignified

and autonomous.

My toe's better.

Oh, okay.

What we've done

in this project

is to employ the idea

of defensible space.

There's been a gratifying

consensus among the elderly

that this concept

of housing will--

Uh...

What?

What?

No, no. W--

D-Don't you think

that, um,

"gratifying consensus" is--

Is a crap phrase?

A crap phrase?

Yeah.

I don't think

it's a crap phrase, no.

No?

No, I don't think so.

Possibly.

Yeah, look at it.

Possibly.

You want to listen to this?

Yeah.

Would you like that? Okay.

Well, listen to this.

Uh, you seem easy.

[CLEARS THROAT]

Um...

This is just the rough draft.

Don't, uh-- You know. Okay.

"The elderly in buildings with

family units include children--

"For the elderly in buildings

with family units,

including children

are being victimized."

What does that mean?

Could you make that

simpler, more direct?

Elderly people

who live in buildings, uh--

Down the hall could be a family

with teenage kids.

Uh-huh.

They go

to their mailbox to, uh,

pick up

a social security check.

They go shop, they come back

they're afraid somebody's gonna

beat the sh*t out of them.

Oh, I-- I didn't get that.

Oh, that's great.

Why don't you say that?

I can't say beat the sh*t out

of them. This is gonna be on TV.

You're right, you're right.

I'm sorry.

Um...

"What we do is take two

of the buildings in the project

"and designate them

as elderly buildings.

This way--"

Wait a minute.

I don't think you should

say "elderly buildings."

Why not?

I don't think it's clear.

It's perfectly clear.

It sounds as if the buildings

are elderly. Yes.

No, no.

Elderly people

in the building.

No.

It sounds like this, uh,

rusty pipes, cracking walls--

Elderly buildings.

Yeah.

Maybe. Maybe.

Uh...

All right, let me look--

It's probably a moot point.

Maybe. I'll look at it.

"Uh, a new person

coming to visit,

a teenage delivery boy

sticks out like a sore thumb."

Don't always-- I'm sorry.

What?

When you're doing it.

I'm not doing gestures.

No, I'm just running through--

Okay. Right.

Okay. No, I--

Don't think that-- This is not--

All right.

Oh, I-- I'm sorry.

"Patrols sit in

the lobby together

"and watch the television

monitor in the courtyard.

Then they press the buttons

to admit people or not."

That's-- I like that.

I like that phrase,

it's good.

What's a good phrase? Sit--

Sit in the lobby?

Press buttons?

Both of them.

Both?

Yeah. Good phrases.

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