:07:00
..but seems like you're making
more of this than it is.
:07:03
The world's a hard place,
but sometimes you just get lucky.
:07:07
- l believe in luck.
- And, of course, sometimes you don't.
:07:11
lf you're alive, some terrible shit's
gonna happen to you,...
:07:14
..and maybe some good things too,
but you can always count on the terrible.
:07:18
lf it doesn't kill you, you're gonna be around
to see it come down some other way.
:07:23
Thank you, honey.
:07:26
No. No, thanks.
:07:28
My... father died last year.
:07:33
81 years old.
:07:35
lt's a long time for a black man
to live in this town.
:07:39
He outlived everyone he ever knew. He saw
two wives die and three of his children.
:07:43
He had a great ugly old face that looked like
a suitcase gone a million miles,...
:07:47
..all beat up and dented
and scuffed and stained.
:07:52
Man, he looked like
he walked 80 years on that face.
:07:57
When l used to look at that face
and see all the pain there,...
:08:00
..all the things he'd lost, all the hurt he had,...
:08:03
..l wondered why he wanted to go on,
why he just didn't lay down and give it up.
:08:09
- Did you figure it out?
- No. Never figured out much about that guy.
:08:13
- l asked him, though.
- What'd he say?
:08:17
Habit.
:08:26
- Does your sister have ajob?
- She's a cashier at Jon's.
:08:29
Lets her work her hours
around her little girl's school.
:08:33
- Would they let her transfer to another store?
- l don't know. Why?
:08:38
- l was just wondering about something.
- What's that?
:08:44
ltjust seems like an impossible situation.
:08:47
You can't live your life thinking someone's
gonna shoot up your house at any moment.
:08:51
A lot of people do.
:08:54
You know, l know this guy who's got
an apartment house in Canoga Park.