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Pete : Hey, Sis. Sis-Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey. So,
what would you say? Is Cody a better town today
or back when we were kids?
Amber’s mother : I know what you would say.
Pete : What?
Amber’s mother : Your uncle hates everything,
Amber. You know, I actually think it's better
now. There's more stuff to do.
Pete : Oh, yeah. There's more to do. You got the
Wal-Mart, the Kmart and the Target, right? You
got Chuck E. Cheese. You got Taco Bell. You got
Arby's. You got Mickey’s. You got Denny's.
You've got, uh, Chili's. You got Applebee's. You
got Wendy's. You got Hardee's, right? You got
the- the K.F.C., the IHOP. Do they still have
that Der Wienerschnitzel?
Amber : Oh, yeah.
Pete : Oh, thank God it's still
hanging in there.
You know, I don't know about you guys, but I
could just piss away a whole Sunday afternoon at
the Sunglass Hut.
Amber : Oh, have you ever been to the Sunglass
Hut?
Pete : No, I never have. I'm not trying to come
off like some Polly Perfect here. Right. I'm
going to make some cabinets for some rich New
York investment banker fuck who probably spends
two weeks a year at his Montana ranch, so don't
listen to me.
Amber’s mother : No, I'm not.
Pete : I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to
your daughter. You know, I'm probably just going
through some full-of-shit, early middle-age
period.
Amber : I don't think you're full of shit.
Pete : Thank you. You see, she's so nice. What
happened to you?
Amber’s mother : No, no, no, sweetheart, don't
contradict your mother. He is full of shit. I
don't waste a lot of time thinking about this
stuff. Democrats, Republicans--they're all
crooks.
Pete : This is why revolutions are meant for the
young. If you don't do it now, you're never
gonna. Uniform- uniformity. Conform- conformity.
Monogamy- monotony.
Amber : No wonder you're not still married.
Amber’s mother : Stupid- stupidity.
Pete : Yeah, look- hey, the facts are not always
friendly.
Amber’s mother : Listen to who's giving the
lecture here, Amber. Your uncle did not finish
college.
Pete : Jesus! Mm-hmm. Oh!
Amber’s mother : Okay? He’d lived in a camper for
18 months.
Pete : An air stream!
Amber’s mother : This is not a role model. Remind
me to deprogram you after he leaves.
Amber : Hey, Mom said you got kicked out of
college.
Pete : Oh, thanks, Mom.
Amber’s mother : Yeah, your
mug shots are in all
the papers.
Pete : Yeah, with eight others. I was at Colorado
University. Right. We were the C.U. Nine.
Amber’s mother : Yeah, that notorious band of
Midwestern, white freedom fighters.
Pete : No, no, no. We took over the chancellor's
office. We were protesting the college's
investment in South Africa.
Amber : So what happened?
Pete : All right, well, so, after about four
hours, they come bursting through this
barricade-
Amber’s mother : Okay, that was two chalkboards.
Pete : It's not two chalkboards. We had a bunch
of ropes with some chair. Look, they practically
beat the shit out of all of us. They treated us
like a band of terrorists.
Amber’s mother : You got your little ass kicked
out of college - which he never finished.
Pete : Big deal.
Amber’s mother : It cost our dad $2,000 in legal
fees.
Pete : Which I eventually paid him back. Anyway,
meanwhile-cut to-About a year later, the college
divests all its holdings in South Africa and a
little while after that, Nelson Mandela is a
free man.
Amber’s mother : All because of the "C.U. Nine."
Pete : No, nobody said that. Nobody even thought
that, all right. The point is... that, you know,
if enough people start thinking about something
and trying to actually do something, you can
change things for the better.
Amber : I believe that.
Amber’s mother : Well, I hope they can change for
the better.
Pete : Don't just hope. You can't sit back and
hope. You have to do something. In a town like
this, hope will kill you. It's your move. |
