:04:06
- You guys okay?
- Looks like it.
:04:08
- No. Serious.
- It's kind of funny actually.
:04:12
Yeah? Don't doubt it.
:04:14
Big guy. Played ball, I hear.
:04:15
Probably bought everybody lunch
on Wednesday.
:04:18
Yeah, he did.
:04:20
That's all well and wonderful, and funny
stories about his girl in the sack?
:04:24
I bet he spins a good one.
:04:26
A year from now, he'll be asking you
to toss around ideas...
:04:30
with some of the junior staff...
:04:32
and "Would you leave me the cruller?
It's the only doughnut I like."
:04:37
I'm telling you now.
Be careful.
:04:43
What are you working on?
:04:45
Checking how "project director"
will look on your letterhead?
:04:48
- Be nice.
- Forget it. I'm kidding you.
:04:53
- Watch this guy's ass.
- Sure.
:04:55
He's new and funny and a hell
of a shortstop, Fourth of July picnic...
:04:59
till the company
has a slight recession...
:05:01
and he's bandying your name around
as somebody for the Phoenix office.
:05:05
He's off collecting another wood-grained
plaque: "employee of the month."
:05:09
Right. I'll be careful.
:05:11
I'm telling you.
Watch your back.
:05:16
I've been seeing this girl
almost a year.
:05:19
What am I talking about? You met her.
That seafood joint maybe six months ago.
:05:23
- That little brunette? Melody?
- Melanie. Right.
:05:26
She was very cute, as I remember.
:05:28
Yeah. Took her home.
Met the folks.
:05:32
- Even gave her a ring one weekend.
- Seriously?
:05:35
- Yeah, I really liked her.
- Sounds like it.
:05:38
But then she starts
the "gotta see other people" setup...
:05:41
and that whole routine.
:05:44
Suddenly I'm parked in front
of her house 4:00 in the morning...
:05:47
going to work,
circles under my eyes.
:05:51
Call her three times before she calls me
back once. The phone-fade-out thing.
:05:54
Finally I say,
"This is not needed in my life."
:05:57
Somebody rejects me,
you know, a woman?