Anywhere but Here - Mother's Ticket Dilemma in Conversation
Cop:
Your mother is trying to beat a ticket.
Ann August:
Oh give her one. She already has a drawer full of them.
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Phenomenon - Struggling with Ideas and Communication
Banes:
What did they find out?
George: [Roger smirks]
I'm pregnant. That's how it feels.
Roger:
How what feels?
George:
Yeah, you know, to be full of ideas and you can't deliver, okay? I mean, you know, you're ready to break out and you can't deliver. You know, uh, this professor, he won't even talk to me. He won't even talk to me.
Nate Pope:
You're not going to Berkeley, George?
George:
Oh, come on. Me, at Berkeley? That's a thought, huh?
Nate:
I'm sorry, buddy.
Jimmy:
You mean, inventions? You got inventions?
George: [shows papers; slides papers to her; shows Jimmy diagram on legal pad]
No, no. Ideas, okay? I get a thousand ideas a day, every d-damn minute. Okay? I got big, big, holy cow kind of ideas and, and little what if ideas. All right? Hey, I got ideas for you, Jimmy. Look at this. Look at this. Your parking lot- it's laid out all wrong, okay? Now, if you just follow this, right, you can put six more cars in and no one gets fender benders. All right? Where's Paulette? Where is she? Bonnie, here. Take this. This is a new route for our mail. Okay? Now, if she does this, she can save an hour a day and everybody gets their mail by three o'clock. Imagine, three o'clock. Oh, and l got a holy shit idea too. Look at this. Now this may be the most efficient way to store solar energy. Okay? Take it.
Jimmy:
Well, what am I gonna do with it?
George:
What the hell am I supposed to do with it, huh? You know what that light was? You know what that sound was?
Jimmy:
Tell us.
George:
I'm gonna tell you what it was.
Jimmy:
Well, tell us!
Banes:
It was a damn alien.
Nate:
Don't say that. You don't know what it was.
George:
I know what it is, Nate.
Nate:
You don't know what it was. Don't say that.
Jimmy:
Well, tell us!
George: [his psychic powers slightly break the glass panel at the bar and Jimmy heads for cover]
It's a GODDAMN mistake, is what it is! Okay? It was supposed to happen to someone smart, someone that's scientific, someone who is a leader. But it didn't. It happened to me, George freakin Malley. Look at him. Now look at him. Look!
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