BEN Flashcards
What’s that parked in the drive?
I know… What do you think?
It’s a little flash.
What do you mean?
It looks new.
It’s off the floor… I got a deal.
It’s European.
So?
What are you trying to prove?
I’m not trying to prove anything. That’s just what people drive.
What people?
I don’t know. People. People I know. People I work with. Jesus, it’s just a car.
Did you get finance for it?
Yeah, what else?
You didn’t want to talk that over with me, first?
What? You’re a bank manager now?
FRAN: He can afford it… Can’t you?
BOB: There was nothing wrong with the car you had.
FRAN: They’re like that now, Bob. They don’t drive the same car for long. Not the kind
of people he’s with.
BOB: What people? What people is he with? The kind of people who take out a
seventy- grand loan to buy a new car, so that they can look better than they are?
Is that what you think?
FRAN: He’s not saying that.
BOB: You’re not even thirty years old and you’re driving a brand-new year. European,
no less.
I earn good money. Spending is not a crime.
Your mum and I paid cash for our first new car. We saved for it. And you know
what we did until we had enough saved in the bank?
Rosie… get me a pad and pencil. I should write this down and stick it on the
fridge.
We lived with what we had… a second-hand bomb.
That was last century.
Nevertheless… we made do.
Yeah, well, I’m not prepared to work all my life for the same company for a
handshake and a car at cost at the end of it. I want more than that.
It was cost and a bit more. They weren’t so generous.
Well, there you go. You got screwed at the end anyway.
FRAN: Ben.
BOB: Are you insured?
Of course
