Starry Eyes Page #6

I've had my share.

But they all understood

that being a Taters girl

is what paid the bills

while they chased the dream.

Now I'm not sure you see

how the two are connected.

I mean, I don't know what

else you want me to say.

Do you want me to beg for this job?

Well, you don't got to be a jerk about it.

I mean, I've already had like,

- 20 applications since you quit, so...

- I'm sorry. I didn't...

I didn't mean it like that.

Look, I want you to see

this place for what it really is.

Yeah, I know you think it's cheesy.

Too self-aware,

not ironic enough for you,

the menus, the specials,

all those clever meal names,

calling the little kids tater tots,

saying see you later tater gator

when the customers are leaving.

That's all me. All right?

It may not be cool to a

young woman your age

- but it's me.

- Okay.

Look, just...

promise me that until your star

is on the sidewalk out there

you'll try and value me

and what I'm trying to do here.

Can you...

Can you do that for me?

Are you a Taters girl?

Yeah, I can do that.

I'm a Taters girl.

I guess my point is that I just

feel like, the austerity lifestyles,

sort of eastern lifestyles exists...

I got no friends at my party.

Hey. Back to slumming it

like the rest of us?

Hey.

Hey.

- What's up, Erin?

- Hi.

What's up?

Do you have like, an amp for that?

This is good.

Who knows how to scat?

This is the issue with the millennial

generation. It's just, it's entitlement.

Hey, you get off my lawn.

It's my property you're sitting on.

You're loitering.

I could have you arrested.

It's a crime. It's where I live.

- You live there?

- Yeah.

Why?

See, it's LA.

Why should I spend $1500

a month on an apartment

when I'm just going to spend

all day in the car anyway?

- So this is your car too?

- It's my car. It doesn't run but...

it did when I had that epiphany.

Tracy told us what happened.

Told you, told you what?

That the producer at

Astreus got inappropriate.

Maybe it's worth it.

I just started back up

at Big Taters yesterday.

I kind of feel like

I'm selling my soul already.

So it may as well be

for something I love.

I don't know. If you want to do

what you love, why not just do it?

I mean, you work at this restaurant.

You work at Big Taters. I live in a van.

So what?

Those things aren't mutually exclusive from

us being able to do what we want to do.

We got all these people,

all our friends,

they're just sitting around

trying to figure out what to do,

trying to figure out how to make something.

Maybe we should be sitting around anymore.

Maybe we should just get together

and make something.

I'm going to send you my script.

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