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Howard :John, let's not get started again about the lawyer.
John :Pop, couldn't you just sit there and eat your wonderful egg salad, and
quit horning
in? See... I've got a good many questions to ask and I'm willing
to pay for the answers... Now, I don't need to be told that a man who goes after
his mother with a coffee table is putting himself in a weak position legally;
that's obvious.
Helen : John, come and have a look out this fabulous picture window.
John :If he hits her with it and kills her, that's a criminal case.
Helen : Oh, look, the sun's coming out!
John :If all he does is break the coffee table and give her a certain amount
of aggravation and she decides to go
to court over it,
that's a civil case.
Helen : Maybe we'll have a rainbow! John, come have a look.
John :Ma, how about doing everybody a favor? How about shutting up!
Howard :Settle down, now.
Frank : Maybe I can look into it. Recommend someone. What you say?
John :So...What do you do, Frank?
Frank : I work for Knox Business Machines factory.
John :You design the machines?
Frank : Nope.
John :Make 'em, sell 'em, repair 'em?
Helen : All these questions.
Frank : I help sell them, I guess I work in the office. Actually, it's a sort
of a stupid job really. There's...nothing interesting about it at all.
John :What do you do it for then?
Howard :Maybe Frank doesn't like to be questioned like this...
John :Okay, okay. Okay. I know it's none of my business. And besides, I know
the answer. You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very
nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Anyone
comes along and says "What do you do it for?" He's probably on a four-hour pass
from the State funny
farm. All agreed..? Ma..?
Howard :Sorry Frank.
Frank : No. Don't be. Don't be. Actually, John, I agree with everything you
just said. We both do. That's why I'm quitting the job in the fall. We're taking
off.
April : We're moving to Paris.
John :Did you know about this, Ma...? How do you feel about that, Ma? The nice
young Wheelers are taking off!
Helen : John, please.
Howard : Steady down, son.
Frank : John. John! How about some fresh air, what you say? If that's all
right with you?
Helen : I don't know if it's such a good idea.
Howard :If John wants to, I don't see the harm.
April : Good.
Frank : Do you..?
April : I hear you're a mathematician.
John :You hear wrong. It's all gone now.
April : All gone?
John :You know what electrical shock treatments are?
April : Yes. Yes I do.
John :I've had thirty-seven. Supposed to jolt
out the "Emotional
Problems."
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