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Mike : My fourth hand didn't show
up. Anybody wanna make 2 $ for a day's work around here ? What's
the matter ? Nobody wants to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay ?
Man : He never pays.
Mike : Nobody wants the job ?
Benjamin : I do.
Mike : You got your sea
legs, old man ?
Benjamin : I think.
Mike :That's good enough for me. Get your ass on board, we'll sure as
hell find out !
Benjamin : I was as happy as I could be.
Mike : I need a volunteer !
Benjamin : I would do anything. Yes, captain !
Mike : Scrape off all
this bird shit.
Benjamin : Right away, sir. I was actually going to be paid for something I
would have done for free. His name was Captain Mike Clark. He'd been on a
tugboat since he was seven.
Mike :Come here. Could you... still get it up ?
Benjamin : I do every morning.
Mike :The old pole ? The hard'n ?
Benjamin : I guess.
Mike :When was the last time you had a woman ?
Benjamin : Never.
Mike : Never ?
Benjamin :
Not
that I know of, sir.
Mike : Wait a minute! You mean to say, you've been on this earth for many
years, and you never had a woman? Damn! That's the saddest thing I ever heard in
my life. Never ?
Benjamin : No.
Mike : Then, by Jesus, you are coming with me. What did your father do ?
Benjamin : I never met my father.
Mike : You lucky bastard ! All father's gonna do is
hold
you down. I was on my father's boat, working a couple of days.
This little fat bastard, "tug Irish" they call him. I finally
get
the nerves and tell him: "I don't wanna spend the rest of my life
on a goddamn tugboat!" You know what I'm sayin' ?
Benjamin : You don't wanna spend the rest of your life on a tugboat.
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