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80 I want to know about. I want a position! I don't have to sit around here every month or so, waiting for somebody to bring me my money. THEO Money! Money! That's all you can think about! MR.PARKER Well, look who's talking. You forget this was all your idea. Remember what I told you about starting something and sticking with it. What is it now, boy? The next thing you'll tell me is that you've decided to become a priest or something. What's the new plan, Theo? THEO No new plans, Pop. I just don't want us to mess up. Don't you understand——thing must be done right, or else we're going to get ourselves in jail. We have to be careful, we have to think about each other all the time. I didn't go into this business just for myself, I wasn't out to prove how wrong Adele was. I just through the time had come for us to do something about all them years we laid around here letting Mama kill herself! MR.PARKER I have told you a thousand times I don't wanta hear any talk about your Mama. She's dead, damnit! So let it stay that way! (Moves toward shop.) THEO All right, let's talk about Adele then. MR.PARKER (Stopping at steps.) What about her? THEO She's out of this house every night. MR.PARKER Boy, you surprise me. What do you think she should do, work like a dog all day and then come to this house and bite her fingernails all night? THEO She's got herself a boy friend too, and—— MR.PARKER (Crossing to counter.) Good! I got myself a girl friend, 81 now that makes two of us! THEO (Following him.) But he's——aw, what's the use. But I wish you'd stay in the shop more! MR.PARKER That's too bad. I have things to do. I don't worry about where you're going when you leave here. THEO I don't go anywhere and you know it. If I did, we wouldn't do an hour's business. But we have been doing great business! And you wanta know why? They love it! Everybody loves the way ol' Theo brews corn! Every after-hours joint is burning with it! And for us to do that kind of business, I've had to sweat myself down in this hold for something like sixteen hours a day for two whole months! MR.PARKER What do you want from me? THEO I just want you here in the shop with me, so at least we can pretend that this is a barbershop. A cop walked through that door today while I had three customers in here, and I had to put one of them in that chair and cut his hair! MR.PARKER How did you make out? THEO Pop, I don't need your jokes! MR.PARKER All right, don't get carried away. (Goes to THEO and puts his arms around the body's shoulders.) I'll make it my business to stay here in the shop with you more. THEO And make Blue guarantee me some help. MR.PARKER You'll get that too. But you've got to admit one thing, though——you've always been a lazy boy. I didn't expect
