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20 for me. MR. PARKER But I don't know how to cook. ADELE (Turns sharply.) You can learn. MR. PARKER Now look, Adele, if you got something on your mind, say it, 'cause you know damn well I ain't doin' no cooking. ADELE (Pause.) All right, I will. A thought came to me today as it does every day, and I'm damn tired of thinking about it—— MR PARKER What? ADELE ——And that is, I've been down at that motor-license bureau so long, sometimes I forget the reasons I ever took the job in the first place. MR. PARKER Now look, everybody knows you quit college and came home to help your mama out. Everybody knows it! What you want me to do? Write some prayers to you? (The two boys enter the back room from upstairs.) ADELE I just want you to get a job! (The boys step into shop and stand apart from each other.) BOBBY Hey, Adele. ADELE Well! From what cave did you fellows crawl out of? I didn't know you hung around barber shops ... Want a haircut, boys? 21 THEO For your information, this is the first time we been in this barber shop today. We been upstairs thinking. ADELE With what? THEO With our minds, baby! ADELE If the two of you found that house upstairs so attractive to keep you in it all day, then I can think of only three things: the telephone, the bed, and the kitchen. BOBBY The kitchen, that's it: we been washing dishes all day! ADELE I don't like that, Bobby! THEO And I don't like your attitude! ADELE Do you like it when I go out of here every morning to work? THEO There you go again with that same old tired talk: work! Mama understood about us, I don't know why you gotta give everybody a hard time ... ADELE That was one of Mama's troubles: understanding everybody. THEO Now don't start that shit with me! ADELE I have got to start that, Mr. Theopolis Parker! MR. PARKER Hold on now, there's no need for all this ... Can't we
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Had to reopen. We don't use indents. USE CAPITALS WHERE SEEN.
