About a Boy
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:07:00
I think so, yes.
:07:02
I have a 3-year-old boy.
:07:06
I wanted to throw the napkin on the floor,
push over the table and run.

:07:10
Brilliant. I love kids.
:07:13
Yeah. I like messing about with them.
:07:17
Doing kid things.
:07:19
I'd have been disappointed
if you didn't have a child.

:07:22
Why do you say that?
:07:24
God knows.
:07:26
Mainly because it sounded smooth and winning.
:07:29
Because I love kids so much. They're so lovely.
:07:35
What in God's name are you saying,
you idiot?

:07:39
She can't be buying this rubbish.
:07:44
But she did buy my rubbish.
:07:46
And for the next few weeks
I was suddenly Will the Good Guy.

:07:50
Her kid took to me,
mainly because on our first meeting...

:07:53
...I took him to the zoo
and held him upside down by his ankles.

:07:56
I wish relationships
with proper humans were that easy.

:07:59
You know, you are brilliant.
:08:00
I came to realize that with single mums...
:08:03
...particularly ones who'd been badly treated...
:08:05
...and eventually abandoned by the father
of their children, you became by comparison...

:08:10
You are a wonderful person.
:08:13
No, I'm not.
:08:15
But it was hard
to be wonderful all the time.

:08:18
Eventually I began to wonder whether
Angie was exactly what I was looking for.

:08:23
For instance, she was late for the new IMAX
movie because the babysitter hadn't turned up.

:08:27
I'm so sorry.
It's all right.

:08:29
That pissed me off.
:08:30
-You okay?
-Yes.

:08:32
And there were deeper problems.
:08:33
She couldn't stay at my place,
and she didn't have a DVD, or satellite or cable.

:08:38
So we were always stuck watching some crap
made-for-TV movie about a kid with leukemia.

:08:42
I'm afraid there's nothing
we can do.

:08:44
God! No! Please, please, no!
:08:48
I was going to have to end it.
:08:50
But having been Will the Good Guy...
:08:52
...I didn't relish going back to my role of Will
the Unreliable, Emotionally-stunted Asshole.

:08:56
I'm sorry?
:08:58
You're breaking up with me? You...

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