Kids these days

'Well I got him a job. You know Margaret... Margaret Fletcher? Margaret, she--' 

'Just wait a minute. She was a haggard.'

'She wants a--'

'Marjorie.'

'Yeah. Yeah, Marjorie, wants her lawn done. She gave him the job and he gave her a bid and now, where is he? Well, I told her I will find you somebody.'

Tsk. 'To start and not finish.'

'Well, he might be in the hospital. Consider his illness...'

'Illness?'

'The first day his phone was down. I asked him, you don't have a phone? Yours isn't working? I need you to have a phone. We will go get you a phone, keep your phone on you--'

'Well, I don't know what his deal is. Not answering you.'

'Yeah. It's prepayed.'

'Well, he and Harland are into drugs.'

'Yeah, you think your fine, until the oldness kicks in.'

'Mhmm.'

'It beats your body and takes you.'

'They don't think 'bout eating. They subsitute that for whatever's in their mind.'

'And then you get old and your organs and everything--'

'Mhmm.'

'Well, he might not have insurance and you put all the puzzle together and maybe his phone isn't on. He keeps it all hush hush. And you have an idea--'

'Charlie's daddy was a carptenter. They tried to do that with him.'

'That's a good trade.'

'Even if he stops doing what he's doing with the yards.'

'Yeah.'

'Mhmm.'

'He can get somwhere.'

'Yep.'

'Yeah. You gotta do it. No one else can do it for you.'

'I never had the luxury of choice. George was driving the tractor for em when they were working the fields. Couldn't even reach the peddle at his age.'

'I did the same. Just old enough to see over the wheel.'

'He was happy to do it, too. Because that meant he didn't have to get on the trailor and throw the hay!'

'Throwing hay--'

'Well, she also said, I don't want those kids to have to work. And all of them have cars.'

'Spoiled. Spoiled, my god, I've seen em.'

'There's two girls she employs at her shop and they don't help her.'

'These kids. We lost em. We lost em somewhere. It... it comes down to the parents.'

'I don't want they to have to grow up the way I did - thats what she said. Why! Why? What's wrong with that? They should be gettin' ready to do something. How are they goin' to do when they get into the world?'

'Well. That's Terry. I better take it.'

'Terry? Did he fix the old Ford?'

'Yeah, not yet.'

'Not yet? These kids...'

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