Our hero encounters a talking squirrel in the woods.
Hello, Charles. I was wondering if I might have a word with you.
"Finally," he thinks, "my mystical rapport with nature is starting to pay off!"
Impart to me your wisdom, oh messenger of the gods!
Your misguided attempts to improve my quality of life have failed. It's a common human conceit that ingenuity can improve on the provisions of nature, but I'd appreciate it if you quit meddling.
So you're saying I should quit putting out food for you?
Well, keep putting out the barbecued chips, but lay off the salt and vinegar, huh? They give me gas.
Our Hero explains his feelings of jealousy for an ex-girlfriend.
What's the problem with her dating other guys? It's been eight months, and it's not like you've been celibate the whole time.
Yeah, but it's not the same. I'm the first guy she ever slept with.
It's like the astronauts of Apollo 11. They saw things no other man had seen, been places no other man had been.
The moon belongs to them more truly than to any man on Earth. How do you think they'll feel when some interloper comes, littering on the surface and destroying those first footprints?
Hey, I'm putting together a score. Your cut would be $26,000. Interested?
Are you insane?
We'll probably be arrested and spend the rest of the decade getting raped in prison. Failing that, we still have to launder the money.
Even if everything goes according to plan, I won't be able to spend any of that money without arousing the suspicions of my friends and family. The whole thing is dangerous and pointless.
Our hero sits down at the poker tables once again...
I bet the limit.
You're bluffing.
No.
You want me to think that you think that I think you're bluffing. No dice, slick! You have to get up pretty early in the morning to put one over on R.F. Migillicutty. I'll call.
Flush, queen high.
You made me think that I thought you were bluffing! I knew it!
Our hero decides not to further pursue higher education.
I've decided I'm not going to college anymore.
What? You have to go to college!
His mother is devastated.
For Christ's sake, I sat in on a physics lecture the other day and there was a guy trying to blind the professor with a laser pointer. Why would I want to keep trying for that?
You'll never get a good job without a college education.
Who knows why.
Yeah, I can be like Diana and bury myself in student loans to make eight dollars an hour subsitute teaching.
Jobs like that don't just fall out of the sky, you know.