:21:02
- Goodbye, Mrs. Dietrichson.
- What's the matter?
:21:06
Look, baby, you can't get away with it.
:21:10
- You want to knock him off, don't you.
- That's a horrible thing to say!
:21:14
Who'd you think I was, anyway?
:21:15
A guy that walks into a good-looking dame's
front parlor...
:21:17
and says "Good afternoon,
I sell accident insurance on husbands.
:21:19
You got one that's been around too long?
:21:21
Somebody you'd like to
turn into a little hard cash?
:21:22
Just give me a smile and I'll help you collect."
Boy, what a dope you must think I am!
:21:26
I think you're rotten.
:21:28
I think you're swell.
So long as I'm not your husband.
:21:31
- Get out of here.
- You bet I'll get out of here, baby.
:21:33
I'll get out of here but quick.
:21:45
So I let her have it,
straight between the eyes.
:21:48
She didn't fool me for a minute,
not this time.
:21:51
I knew I had hold of a redhot poker and the
time to drop it was before it burned my hand off.
:21:56
I stopped at a drive-in for a bottle
of beer, the one I had wanted all along,
:22:00
only I wanted it worse now,
to get rid of the sour taste of her iced tea...
:22:04
and everything that went with it.
:22:06
I didn't want to go back to the office...
:22:08
so I dropped by a bowling alley
at Third and Western and rolled a few lines
:22:12
to get my mind thinking about
something else for a while.
:22:16
I didn't feel like eating dinner
when I left, and I didn't feel like a show
:22:20
so I drove home, put the car away
and went up to my apartment.
:22:25
It had begun to rain outside and I watched it
get dark and didn't even turn on the light.
:22:30
That didn't help me either.
:22:32
I was all twisted up inside,
and I was still holding on to that red-hot poker.
:22:37
And right then it came over me
that I hadn't walked out on anything at all,
:22:41
that the hook was too strong,
that this wasn't the end between her and me.
:22:46
It was only the beginning.
:22:48
So at eight o'clock the bell would ring...
:22:50
and I would know
who it was without even having to think...
:22:53
as if it was the most natural thing
in the world.