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Dad.
Dad? You want me to help you upstairs?
Um, no. I'm uh...I'm just, I'm watching the news.
I think the news ended a while ago, unless...are you interested in a food dehydrator?
Think your mother would like one of those?
No.
She sure likes that ice cream maker that I got her.
She only uses it for sherbet. Too much cream in ice cream, she says.
Well that's true.
You know what?
Looks like my brother that guy. Uncle Danny?
Maybe he would be a good man for you.
The dehydrator guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, he's serious about his work, looks good, well spoken.
I don't think so.
Why not?
I don't know, because he's on the television.
Well he is obviously doing pretty well for himself. Got his own show!
It's a commercial.
He sold 712 of...718! He sold six in the last second! Holy smoke! Hey, there's his number right there.
Yeah, I don't think that's his number.
You gotta put yourself out there, Erica! Otherwise...
Otherwise what?
I'm just saying, that's all. I'm just saying.
You know, your mother asked me out.
Some guys like that. Personally, I've never asked a girl out. Always wait for them to make the first move.
This guy is the same way, I can tell.
Come on, get a pencil, get his number down. I'm not gonna call him.
Why not? Because we don't know anything about him. We don't. He's probably married.
Well, that hasn't stopped you before.
Cameron was separated.
Maybe this guy will be separated too. I don't get it with strawberries. Why would you want to dry out a strawberry? Potato maybe, not a strawberry.
You know, Dad, I'm okay. Really. I'm fine.
Yeah you are? Well good, that's good.
I just don't like all these fellas running around on their wives.
Me neither.
I never ran around on your mother. I'm not asking for a congratulations, never felt it was a sacrifice.
We've been married, I don't know, over forty years, you know that? Fifty-three.
Ruth asked me out. She was dating your friend Ike.
Did you know him?
No. But you've told me about him.
He was a pistol, Ike.
Big joker. Life of the party type, your mother didn't like that. That's why she liked me. I was quiet. I listened.
I opened doors. I stood up when a woman walked into the room.
You've always been a gentleman, Dad.
You know why men walk on the other side of the...on the outside of the sidewalk?
No.
So that the mud from the spoke wheels doesn't splatter the woman's skirt.
Your married guy do that?
Walk on the curb? You know, I told you he's no-
No.
I'm not going to end up with him.
The married guy.
He doesn't love me.
I don't love him.
We're just...wasting time together, I guess.
Well let me tell you something, Dolly.
Runs out soon enough.
I'm going to bed. Turn off the TV will you, when the show's over?
Sure.