Peaches Page #3

The bike will still be here in the morning.

Hop in.

You and Jude still swim in the river?

Not anymore. We used to.

She says it's polluted now.

Years ago we used to have something called

the Cannery Cavalcade at the end of shift.

It was a mass exodus to Fisher's Bend.

There was skinny-dipping, dive-bombing.

All sorts.

- Don't they do it anymore?

- No.

Safety regulations. You're covered

by workers comp to and from the job...

so it's a public lynching if you're caught.

[Door shutting]

Hi.

- Who dropped you home?

- No one.

One of the nightshift girls.

- Oh, who?

- Julie Morrissey.

Ah.

Why don't you have your hair long anymore?

You used to when I was little.

- I don't know. I'm just too old for it, I think.

- You might get a root if it was long.

WOMAN:
[Over P.A. System] Forklift drivers

to report to dispatch immediately.

Do not continue existing jobs.

Report immediately to dispatch.

WORKER:
This is crazy.

They let eight go today.

What's the CEO's bonus this quarter?

I hope he's invested it wisely.

WORKER:
Here he comes.

How can you do this? I'll get you, Taylor.

You got to step off the curb sometime.

JUDE:
Oh, it's an absolute sh*t, Kenny.

Well, I guess my fingers just aren't as nimble

as they used to be.

Well, that's not what Kath says.

Oh, since we got him on the Viagra,

his fingers have never felt better.

KATH:
Sorry, honey.

ALAN:
How's that old van of mine going?

BRIAN:
Oh, it's okay.

- I ought to have your balls for this.

- Mate, you couldn't lift them.

You reckon?

Go on. Inhale, for Christ's sake.

Sue says,

why don't you come and stay at the house?

No. It's too crowded for me, bro.

You know, it'd give me a break.

[Brian exclaims]

A witness. Now you're stuffed.

The foreman ripped on company time.

[Coughing]

[Clarinet playing]

I can hear music.

Of course you can. This stuff's all heads.

It's Kenny.

He wanted to practice in the cold store

for old times' sake.

[Playing melancholy tune]

You know what we ought to do?

Cannery Cavalcade.

[Whooping]

You waiting for a wetsuit or what?

Don't forget your floaties, mate.

[Whooping]

It's the best. It's the best show.

Here they come.

[Screaming hysterically]

I love you guys!

CROWD:
Countdown!

JASS:
I don't know who they are.

[Live It Up by Mental As Anything

playing on TV]

JASS:
What Johnny needs

is a crash course in having fun.

I keep telling him,

if it's got a beat, you dance to it.

[Jass and Jude singing The Carnival Is Over]

JASS:
That night,

Jude got another one of her ideas.

The biggest surprise was Al.

For a nerd with specs and a stammer,

who would have thought?

He and Jude might just go the distance.

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