Same Time, Next Year Page #3

the wine business near here.

I fly out the same weekend every year

to do his books. From New Jersey?

He was my first client. It's

sort of a sentimental thing.

Oh, I see.

Uh, Doris, I'd like to

tell you something. Okay.

You probably think I do this

sort of thing all the time.

I know I must appear very

smooth and glib and sexual.

But since I've been married, this

is the very first time I've done this.

Ah, sure. Don't worry.

I could tell.

Listen, would you mind if I

had a little of your breakfast?

Sure. I'm not hungry. Thank you.

Even when I was single, I was no

good at quick, superficial affairs.

I always had to like the person

- What do you mean, you could tell?

- I n what way could you tell?

- What? Oh.

Uh, well, it was

just little things,

you know, like when you tried to

take your pants off over your shoes...

and t

- tripped and hit your head on the coffee table.

Just little things

like that.

It's great to be totally honest

with another person, isn't it?

It sure is.

Doris, I haven't been totally

honest with you. You haven't?

- I told you I was a married man with two children.

- You're not?

I'm a married man

with three children.

I thought it would make me

seem less married.

All right, I didn't think

it through, all right?

There's been like a lead weight

inside me all morning.

I mean, denying little Debbie like that!

I was under a certain stress

or I wouldn't have done it.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Y-You understand?

Sure. We all do

dopey things sometimes.

Well...

I really should be going.

The nuns are gonna be wondering

what happened to me.

Nuns?

Did you say nuns?

Yeah, somehow it just didn't seem

right to bring up last night,

but I was on my way

to retreat.

Retreat?

Yeah.

See, it's right near here.

I go every year at this time when

Harry takes the kids to Bakersfield.

What's in Bakersfield?

His mother.

It's her birthday.

Doesn't she mind that you

don't go? No, she hates me.

'Cause I got pregnant. Her son

had something to do with that.

Yeah, she blocks that

out of her mind.

See, he was in his first year

of dental college...

and he had to quit and take a

job selling waterless cooking.

So now every year on her

birthday, I just go on retreat.

To think about God?

Well, him too, sure,

but also about myself...

'cause, see, I got pregnant

when I was just 18,

so I've never really

had any time to just think.

You know,

I mean, about,

well,

what I think about.

Never mind. I don't know

what I'm trying to say.

Sometimes I think I'm crazy. Why?

Oh. Well,

okay,

like, take my life.

Now, we live in a two-bedroom

duplex in downtown Oakland,

and we have

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