: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?
:06:00
It drives me... Ah!
I hate it.
:06:03
- Yeah?
- Seems like everything...
:06:05
you know, work, these women...
:06:08
feel like they're
getting out of balance, don't they?
:06:10
Yeah, they really do, Howard.
:06:14
We ought to do something about it.
:06:19
You know why I'm still chipper,
big grin on my face, Howie?
:06:22
Why is that?
:06:27
Because I realized something.
:06:30
I figured this out about a month ago.
:06:33
I came home, and Suzanne
had just packed up the joint.
:06:37
Yeah. She'd just gone.
:06:40
Really? You never...
:06:42
Left me a futon
and my poster of "American Gigolo."
:06:47
Bitch even took the frame off it.
:06:51
I'm standing there, no note...
:06:53
not a "thanks for four years of a roof
over my bleached-blonde head"...nothing.
:06:57
You know?
And it comes to me... the truth.