- [first lines]
- Ray Tuckby: Thanks for coming. Would you like a receipt with that? Don't forget to take a mint.
- Ray Tuckby: Thanks for coming. Would you like a receipt with that? Don't forget to take a mint.
- Ray Tuckby: Thanks for coming. Would you like a receipt with that? Don't forget to take a mint.
- Ray Tuckby: Thanks for coming. Would you like a receipt with that? Don't forget to take a mint.
- Ray Tuckby: And how was your day?
- Charlene: I found a half-off coupon of Bounty paper towels, with no expiration. Isn't that something?
- Ray Tuckby: I guess it is, yeah. What about you son?
- Eddie: I busted some windows on a couple of houses down the street. I wanna burn down that shitbox up the street that that dead guy croaked in.
- Merl Striker: Funny thing about change, it's like pulling off a bandage. Hurts like hell when you do it, but you always feel better after.
- Eddie: Eleven hundred bucks?
- Ray Tuckby: For college.
- Eddie: For college?
- [scoffs]
- Eddie: What the hell's the matter with you, Ray? I got better things to do with this money and my time than to get some stupid education.
- Ray Tuckby: [watching tiny TV] Don't you think Happy Days is just the best?
- Nora: It *is* awfully good, there's not denying it.
- Ray Tuckby: We really do have quite a lot in common, don't you think?
- Merl Striker: Turned out the little twerp wasn't really that hard to take down. Just a bit of guts and determination from all of us, Dirk and company went over faster than a one-legged cat in a sandbox.
- Ray Tuckby: [suddenly stops kissing] What they hey was that?
- Nora: It's called a French kiss.
- Ray Tuckby: A what?
- Ray Tuckby: It's a little more intimate than a regular kiss. I read about it recently in one of those Harlequin books, over in the miscellaneous section, aisle 3.
- Ray Tuckby: Sure was different. Kinda like a toothbrush. But I liked it.
- [last lines]
- Merl Striker: Maybe, the American dream *does* still exist. Even for my friend Ray. And even in a place like Trona.