Jack

Question 1

H1

All my lines got cut!

Answer 1

Sorry to interupt folks, just have to change this light bulb, won’t be a minute.

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Question 2

NICK

I was talking to Frank down at the Union Hall the other day.

Answer 2

Yeah? What did Frank say?

Question 3

NICK

Said it was all over with. They’re shutting down the plant at the end of the month.

Answer 3

Well, that’s it then. So they’re really moving it to Mexico?

Question 4

NICK

Yeah. They’re gonna pay ‘em 50 cents an hour.

Answer 4

That’s just great! And too bad for us I guess.

Question 5

NICK

So… uhh… there’s the light we gotta fix.

Answer 5

Oh. That’s a 3349. We don’t got none of those.

Question 6

NICK

That’s not a 3349… that’s… a… whattyacallit? Uh… that’s a… uh… a Z 52 Halogen.

Answer 6

Nope. They took all the 52s out a couple months ago. That there is a 3349. And like I said, we ain’t got none of those.

Question 7

NICK

How come they took the 52s out?

Answer 7

Them 52s had too much leakage there. They was putting out some kinda ozone stuff and the EGA (sic) said they hadda take them out and put in the 3349s. We ain’t got none of those.

Question 8

NICK

Say, my kid’s brother-in-law had some of that ozone stuff at his work. Now he’s got the cancer.

Answer 8

Damn government don’t give a damn about the working man. Whole world is going to stinking hell. Sometimes I almost wish I was back in Nam. Say, we could probably put a 3368 up in there.

Question 9

NICK

My wife left me six years ago. Now, I don’t even know how to talk to a woman. Uh… why don’t we try one of those 3368s.

Answer 9

Oh, wait a minute, I just remembered. Those 3368s are bipins, not Edisons. It won’t fit.

Question 10

NICK

Nothing fits anymore! When I was a kid, we used to have these woods in the back of my house. We’d play there all the time. I went back there last week. They cut all the trees down and put up a Wal-Mart. It’s all gone.

Answer 10

My oldest kid came home for Christmas. We’re like strangers. Oh, we sit and watch the games and talk about the weather. But we really don’t say anything. I’d like to tell him about Nam. But I just can’t.

Question 11

NICK

When I was 17, I thought I was so tough. I was gonna rule the world. Now, I just want someone to hold me.

Answer 11

I used to know what life was about. Then I went to Nam.

Question 12

NICK

Say Jack, I just thought of something.

Answer 12

Yeah?

Question 13

NICK

We never tried the light switch.

Answer 13

We didn’t, did we?

Question 14

NICK

I guess we don’t even know if it works or not.

Answer 14

I guess it’s kinda like life.

Question 15

NICK

How do you mean?

Answer 15

You have to try to turn it on.

Question 16

NICK

But what if you don’t know how, Jack? What if you don’t know how?

Answer 16

I don’t know, Nick. I don’t know.

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