Quicksand Page #3

I uh..What did you do after you

ran away from home?

I was a car hop for a while,

waitress in a beer joint,

clerk in a five and ten,

cashier in a coffee shop.

It's not what you run away to,

it's what you run away from.

I ran away from a farm and the belt

the old man used to whip me with.

My old man sure was free with that belt.

I ran away from a lot of things.

Ma getting drunk all the time

and never having any

decent clothes to wear.

And the boarders.

Especially those boarders.

They wouldn't leave me alone.

It must have been tough.

I learned to handle them after a while.

Think you can handle me?

Sure.

I can handle you easy.

Yeah?

Hello, is Buzz there?

He what?

Took a fishing party?

When will he be back?

No.

No, never mind. I'll...

All right. I'll call him later.

Bye.

The bookkeeper.

What's he doing here two days

ahead of time?

If he finds out I'm short,

he'll tell the old man.

The old man's mean enough to

send a guy to jail just for laughs.

I gotta get twenty bucks in a hurry.

How about that Salary Loan outfit.

The one that's always yackin'

on the radio,

"Walk in with an honest face, walk out

with a pocket full of dough."

I must have walked in

with the wrong face.

A couple of days to check my references.

I haven't got any references

and I haven't got a couple of days.

THIS WEEK ONLY ONE DOLLAR DOWN

BUYS ANY WATCH IN THIS WINDOW

Can I have it for a dollar down

like it says in the window?

Soon as we've checked up on your credit.

Credit.

I can't wait that long.

- Wait a minute.

You got a charge account in town?

No.

Yes, I have.

The hub. At the Hub

where I buy my clothes.

I tell you what I'll do.

I'll call their credit manager and if he

says you're OK,

you can take the watch right with you.

OK?

Now, let's get it on

and show you what it looks like.

How much could you let me have

on this ticker?

Thirty dollars do you any good?

Thirty dollars will be fine.

Any better than last week?

I don't know yet, Mr. Mackey.

I'll let you know.

About that other matter,

see if you can't find a way

to make it a business deduction.

I'll think about it, Mr. Mackey.

Hi, George.

Hi, Danny.

You're uh...

You're here kind of early

this week, aren't you?

The old man sent for me.

He had some tax reports

for me to get out.

Oh.

And I figured as long as I was here,

I'd get my Thursday work done.

Say, Dan.

I just checked the register

and it's $20 short.

Maybe you could have

made a mistake or something.

No, I checked it twice.

Well...

Sometimes the money gets stuck

in the money sack down there.

Yeah.

Yeah, here it is.

I looked in the money sack.

You just didn't look good enough.

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