Where Hope Grows Page #4

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Please, Mr. Campbell?

Come... please?

- Come on.

- All right.

- Come on.

- What are we doing?

What? What is this?

I'm not smart enough to be

the Employee of the Month.

Shoot.

Yeah, you are.

- Really?

- Let me ask you a question.

Do you think that Colt

can name every fruit number

on every piece of fruit

in the store?

But I can name

all the vegetables, too.

Yeah, exactly.

That's my point.

He can't do that.

Hey, Produce.

Sometimes...

well, sometimes life

is not fair.

You know?

And sometimes we don't

get what we want.

What do you do for work?

Well...

I've done...

I don't know,

I've done a few things

here and there.

I used to play baseball.

Wow!

Will you show me how?

Well, you know,

I haven't... whoa,

I haven't played baseball

in a long, long time, Produce.

I've always wanted

to play baseball.

You really want to learn

how to play?

Yeah!

Okay.

This is what I want you to do.

I want you to stand

over this box.

That's the home plate.

And then you're just going

to swing this broomstick

like it's a baseball bat.

Hey, Produce?

Not on the box.

Over the box.

There you go.

Just stand like that, okay?

All right, Produce,

I just want you to keep

your eye on the ball.

- It's an orange.

- That's very perceptive.

Just swing when it comes

near you, all right?

All righty then.

I'm going to hit a home run!

Well,

not if I strike you out first, kid.

You ready?

Here comes the heater.

- It's all right.

- Strike one.

It's all right.

Here's what I want you to do.

I want you to keep

your shoulders in, okay?

Keep your eye on the orange.

And I always want you to look

for the rotation of the pitch

at its highest point, okay?

That's when it's leaving my...

never mind, just...

- just swing away and have fun.

- Okay.

Yeah, Produce!

Highest point, all right?

Close.

All right.

There we go.

There it is!

There it is.

Here comes a tomato.

Keep your eye on the ball.

- Ooh.

- All right, here we go.

Boom!

There it is!

Nice!

All right, there we go.

- No!

- Grapefruit.

Yeah!

Produce!

Where the heck have you been?

Get a new apron

and get back to work!

Hey, Produce,

how's it going, man?

- Incredible, man.

- That's great. That's great.

Listen, if you tell anyone

what you just saw,

there's gonna be

some problems for you.

But you took the bottle.

- It's not yours.

- I know.

The thing is,

I'd pay for it if I was 21,

but I'm not, so I can't.

- Understand?

- Understand.

- All right.

- Hey, speed demon.

- Mr. Jenkins, how are you, sir?

- Great, great.

Hey, I caught your race

last Saturday night.

- Thank you.

- So when are they gonna go ahead

and just let you race

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