The Trip to Bountiful Page #4

[ Sighs ]

I think I'll phone the beauty

parlor for an appointment.

Ooh,

I hope I can still get one.

I want

to get in early.

Mr. Douglas is usually in

by 9:
00.

[ Sighs ]

You think

I'm doing the right thing

asking for a raise,

do you?

Sure.

Hello. Rita?

It's jessie mae Watts.

Can I get an appointment

for my hair today?

2:
00?

Nothing earlier?

All right,

I'll see you then.

[ Sighs ]

Wish me luck

on my raise.

Good luck,

ludie.

Bye, mama.

Bye, son!

Now, holler if there's any mail

out there.

No mail, boss!

[ Jazz music playing ]

Can't understand

about that pension check.

Can you?

No, ma'am.

Sure hope

it wasn't lost.

You know,

you're so absent minded,

you don't think you

put it around the room someplace

by mistake

and forgot all about it?

I don't believe so.

You know, you said

you lost that check once before.

Took us five days

to find it.

And I come across it

under this radio.

[ Music stops ]

There's not a thing

like...

You stop

that hymn-singing!

What do you want me to do,

jump right out my skin?

You know what hymns do

to my nerves!

Don't pout.

You know

I can't stand pouting.

I didn't mean to pout,

jessie mae.

[ Door slams ]

Only meant

to be silent.

[ Sighs ]

I can't make up my mind what

movie I want to see tonight.

Well, I guess

I'll just ask rosella.

You know,

when I first came to Houston,

I used to go to

three picture shows in one day.

I'd go

to the Kirby in the morning,

the metropolitan

in the afternoon,

and the majestic

at night.

I guess

I'll just call rosella,

tell her to meet me

at the drug store for a coke.

[ Rotary phone dialing ]

She's not home.

I bet she's

at the drug store right now.

[ Wheels squeaking ]

Would you stop that noise

for a minute?

I'm nervous.

[ Squeaking stops ]

[ Squeaking resumes ]

Ooh!

Mother Watts?

Mother Watts!

I'm all right, jessie mae.

Is it your heart?

No.

It's just

a sinking spell.

[ Sighs ]

Can I get you some water?

Yes,

thank you.

You want me

to call the doctor?

No, ma'am.

You want me to call ludie?

No, ma'am!

Here.

Thank you.

Feeling better now?

Yes, ma'am.

You think you ought to be

getting up so soon?

Sure, ma'am.

I'm... I'm feeling

much better already.

I'll just sit here in the chair

and rest a bit.

All right.

Guess I'll sit over here

and keep you company for awhile.

How you feel now?

Better.

Good.

Those sinking spells always

scare the daylights out of me.

[ Sighs ]

Well, it's your heart.

If you don't want to take

care of it, nobody can make you.

[ Telephone ringing ]

[ Sighs ]

Hello?

Oh, hello, rosella.

You are

at the drug store?

I'd like to,

rosella,

but mother Watts had

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