The Prisoner of Second Avenue Page #5

-You okay, kid?|-Harry, l'm 48. l'm hardly a kid anymore.

l'm 55, and l feel like a kid.|l have ever since l moved out of the city.

Breathe that air in.|Fill your lungs.

-lt'll stay with you a week.|-l'll do it before we go. lt'll last longer.

l've got the lungs of a 25-year-old boy.|l've got the x-rays inside.

You want to see them?

Maybe after lunch.

After lunch.

How long have l tried to get you|to move to the country?

Fresh air, low crime rate.

ln two years,|we've had only four burglaries...

...two attempted rapes|and one completed rape.

Give me the country anytime.

Don't lie there.|We just had manure put down.

Well, listen, tell me about the girls.|Do they like college?

Karen seems very happy.

Maggie, l don't know about.|She never writes.

Come on. Try it.

Up and down.

Up and down, never sideways.

Never sideways.|Okay, l'll try to remember.

What do you do with yourself|now that the girls are gone?

-lt must be very lonely for you.|-lt is sometimes.

l've thought about going back to work...

...but l like to be home|when Mel gets there.

Up and down.|Up and down, never sideways.

Can l ask you something personal?|After all, l'm your brother for 55 years.

-Forty-eight. You had seven on your own.|-Fifty-five, 48, what's the difference?

l think something's wrong.|l think you got some kind of trouble.

l'm not blind.|You're not enjoying yourself.

l've been here three hours. l've got|poison ivy, l'm chewed up by gnats...

...l laid in manure|and your dog piddled on my car.

So l haven't really had a hell of a lot|of time for rural ecstasy.

l can tell by the way you put|that Scotch away.

-Something is very wrong.|-Nothing is--

l'd like to know|so that maybe l can help you.

What is it? Trouble with Edna?|Another woman?

Edna's the only damn thing|l can depend on.

Then you got no troubles.

You're happy with your wife,|got your health, got no trouble.

l got fired, Harry.

All right. You got a problem,|but not trouble.

Good. For a minute there,|l was worried.

l'm not saying it's wonderful news, but|it's not the end of the world. Don't panic.

When the littlest thing would happen,|you'd panic. Am l right?

Oh, you're right. Every time l lose a job|after 22 years, l panic.

You were 4 years old.|Look how you were crying.

Look how you panicked.|Look how calm l am.

Look how you didn't have|to get on the damn pony.

l was on plenty of ponies in my time.

Bigger ponies than this.

l was the breadwinner.|Don't forget that.

-l have never forgotten the bread.|-But l never panicked.

l always tried to examine the situation|intelligently.

You always fell apart.|You were that way in the crib.

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