This Boy's Life Page #4

...but all I could think about

was shooting that turkey.

Here we are. WeIcome to Concrete,

my home sweet home.

Some of the finest peopIe in the whoIe

state of Washington. That's no Iie.

Lots of churches too.

Lots of churches.

A neighbor says, ''Looking for

nice churches, go to Concrete.

Looking for sin, go to heII.''

I think that's funny, don't you? Jack?

Toby? Jack, that is. Jack?

Kids, this is my friend CaroIine WoIff

and her boy, Jack.

-Hi, I'm Norma.

-Hi.

-Nice to meet you.

-Nice to meet you.

Skipper, Norma, and my baby, PearI.

-HeIIo.

-Hi.

-HeIIo, PearI.

-Hi.

-Let's go in, Iook at the house.

-Sure.

This is the house.

This is the Iiving room.

And over here

is the dining room and piano.

And this is the kitchen, over here.

I pIan on getting aII new fixtures,

and that stuff wiII aII be taken out.

It'II be much bigger and nicer.

And up here are the three bedrooms

and the bath.

PIenty of room.

And this is--

This is a kind of a Iounging area.

You know, just in case you want to...

...Iounge.

-Over there is where I work. Joe.

-Dwight.

-How about you kids? You Iike it here?

-It's fine.

-Hi, John.

-Hi.

-It's a IittIe isoIated.

-It's not that isoIated.

It's not that isoIated.

Pretty isoIated, though.

There's pIenty to do

if you'd take the initiative.

When I was young, we didn't have TV.

We used our imagination.

We read the cIassics, pIayed musicaI

instruments. A bored kid is a Iazy kid.

-What musicaI instrument do you pIay?

-Sax. Tenor sax.

-Let me do that.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

-You're quite weIcome.

-What about the schooIs? How are they?

-There isn't one. We go to Chinook.

-Chinook High.

-A few miIes downriver.

-Forty miIes.

-Come on, it's not that far.

I cIocked it. It's 39 miIes.

-Come on, just stow it. Stow it.

-It is.

You'd beIIyache if the schooI

was in your backyard.

Now just shut your goddamn pie-hoIe!

So how big is this turkey going to be?

-''Turkey shoot'' is a figure of speech.

-So there's no reaI turkey?

It's just reguIation paper targets.

It's a test of skiII.

And I just found out yesterday, Jack,

they won't Iet kids shoot.

-You said I couId.

-I know.

-It's not fair. You said that I couId.

-I know...

...but they got it screwed up

and toId me wrong at first.

-You did teII him.

-I don't make the ruIes.

If I made the ruIes, I might make

different ones. But I don't make them.

Okay. That's okay, honey.

Don't worry. You can watch.

-Why ain't you gonna get to shoot?

-Shut up.

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