Fritzy: Hello?
Frank: Where you been, you? You've been out, huh? Every day.
Fritzy: I'm out every day. I'm here, where am I?
Frank: You're there. Where were you last night? Then, in, in the afternoon I called you.
Fritzy: You called me in the afternoon?
Frank: And you wanted to eat hot peppers, too, huh? I, I got all the information.
Fritzy: Who told you?
Frank: Who told me?
Fritzy: Who told you I ate hot peppers?
Frank: You wanted to eat them.
Fritzy: I ate one of 'em.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Yeah. Bothered me, bothered me, too.
Frank: You know you're sick in the head, I gotta tell ya, to eat...
Fritzy: Yeah, right.
Frank: Soon as you start to feel a little better you go right back to the same shit.
Fritzy: Yeah, right. I was lookin' for you last night. Where were ya?
Frank: I came there. I missed ya, I saw Bobby.
Fritzy: Yeah. I was lookin' for ya...
Frank: I missed ya.
Fritzy: I says, "Where is he?" They went and called you. There was no answer, no nothing. You weren't home.
Frank: I just came there, I was on my way there.
Fritzy: Yeah. I says, "I wanna see my man California."
Frank: I missed you.
Fritzy: Well, I was...
Frank: I was at there about ten to ten.
Fritzy: Yeah, I was feelin' a little, ya know, tired. I says, "Let me go." I was goin', I went, I went right to bed.
Frank: You went out yesterday, you wanted, she got your hot peppers, threw them in the garbage. You went in the garbage and took 'em out.
Fritzy: Yeah, yeah. She told you the story?
Frank: Yep.
Fritzy: I found them in the fuckin' pail.
Frank: Are you crazy?
Fritzy: No, I gave 'em to Carmine. I says, "Why'd ya throw them out?" I gave 'em, there was a whole bushel full. They're fresh.
Frank: Why do ya want to eat hot peppers for?
Fritzy: I pulled, well, I pulled out three or four.
Frank: For what?
Fritzy: Why?
Frank: Are you crazy?
Fritzy: They give you high blood pressure?
Frank: Hot. That's no good for you. You're on medication. You were takin' tests. Whattya gotta take hot peppers for?
Fritzy: I [UI].
Frank: But Freddie, you can't have no more [UI].
Fritzy: You're right, you're right, pal.
Frank: You gotta make up your mind now. "This is what I'm gonna do."
Fritzy: You're right.
Frank: If you're gonna go in the other direction...
Fritzy: No.
Frank: Then it's the end. That's all.
Fritzy: I know.
Frank: That's the end.
Fritzy: [In Italian, St. John] is callin'.
Frank: Who?
Fritzy: St. John's is callin'.
Frank: He called you again?
Fritzy: No, ho-ho.
Frank: You didn't get the buzz, huh?
Fritzy: No, no, no.
Frank: You better be careful. You get the buzz again, you get that ring.
Fritzy: I get that buzz, I'm stoppin' short. I'm just stoppin'. You'll see me stop short and say "What's wrong?" "I just got a ring."
Frank: You've been makin' your little fish.
Fritzy: Ya know, the kid Carmine just bought me, uh, from the market.
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: From his, uh, son-in-law, he brought me all red snappers.
Frank: That's nice.
Fritzy: They, they're beautiful, beautiful, real beautiful.
Frank: Good, I'm glad.
Fritzy: So, I'm gonna cook one tonight.
Frank: That's...
Fritzy: [Italian] just dry broiled, that's all. A little vegetable insalate.
Frank: Right.
Fritzy: That's all. Whattya doin'?
Frank: Nothin', I'm sittin' here with Helen. She's knittin'.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: Yeah, she came, made my breakfast for me, she makes my breakfast.
Fritzy: Aww. How nice she takes care of you.
Frank: Oh, yeah.
Fritzy: Meantime, [In Italian, the bag of money] must be gettin' bigger for her. You must be paddin' it up.
Frank: The what?
Fritzy: [In Italian, the bag of money] she picks up every week. Marone, you musta added extra, you add more and more, no?
Frank: She don't look for no money.
Fritzy: Nah, I didn't say lookin' for money. You gotta take care of her. Whattya mean she don't look for money?
Frank: She don't look for money.
Fritzy: You don't take of her?
Frank: Oh, yeah. But she...
Fritzy: So?
Frank: She's not, she's not very greedy person.
Fritzy: No. Neither is my wife.
Frank: She's very...
Fritzy: So, meantime, meantime, it costs me, my wife goes to work, makes a hundred. It costs me three hundred to send her.
Frank: Three hundred to send her? Why?
Fritzy: Eh. Why? You'll find out why.
Frank: Why?
Fritzy: A hun, she got paid a hundred dollars last week.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: It costs, if I tell ya what it costs me to get her off goin', back and forth, forget it, it's a joke. Ya know?
Frank: She goes with a private car?
Fritzy: She goes with her own car. She parks in the parking lot.
Frank: She made a hundred dollars, so she...
Fritzy: She made a hundred dollars.
Frank: She parks in a parking lot, there's money there. And then, the...
Fritzy: The lunch. What about the lunches every day?
Frank: And lunches every day.
Fritzy: And the train, back and forth from, uh, from the parking lot she takes the train for three min, five minutes.
Frank: And then she takes the train from...
Fritzy: That's two dollars.
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: Uh, $15 a week, that's 17. The lunch is five dollars a day, another 30.
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: She made a hundred dollars last week.
Frank: That's all?
Fritzy: That's all.
Frank: I thought she'd a make big money.
Fritzy: Later on.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Later on. Not now. They're training her now, ya know?
Frank: Yeah, you wanna get her back. [UI] think you want her in the field, huh.
Fritzy: In the field? Where? What field?
Frank: Oh, where she's workin'. In the field, she'll be then. Then you don't want her there, huh?
Fritzy: Ah. I don't, I just, I just want her, she's gotta...
Frank: [UI] much.
Fritzy: She's gotta...
Frank: [UI] there. She'll start to look beautiful and then, then, gleamin' again.
Fritzy: Lemme...
Frank: Then you get the guys go, "Hello, how are you..."
Fritzy: She's got a glow already. She's already glow, she looks good already glowin'.
Frank: They got the big eyes over there, ya know?
Fritzy: What big eyes? Big eyes.
Frank: You better watch.
Fritzy: She's a grandmother. What is she gonna?
Frank: I know the grandmother. You never know.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: A little drinkin', a little, a little, uh...
Fritzy: Yeah, well, if they wanna rob her, they could have her. You ever hear that guy, "Take my, take my wife, please," he goes. What's his name, the comedian?
Frank: (Aside to Helen) "They wanna take an old bag, they could have her," he says.
Fritzy: Marone a mi. She's hollerin' already, right? I could hear her, she's knittin' faster.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Yeah, right? So, I don't know.
Frank: How do you feel? Better?
Fritzy: Nah. Today my head is poundin'.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Yeah. Yeah, because, I, these workin' guys, they get me aggravated. To give the garbage guys five dollars out there to take ten dollars to give the guy, they got me aggravated, the guy out there. I go outside, I says, "You guys, Christmastime, youse got $25 apiece off me, you low-life rats," I says. "You refuse to take this stuff?" "Well, ba-bup, ba-bup." "You." "Well, talk to the foreman." "Talk to the foreman?" Now...
Frank: What's this, the city? Or the, or is it private?
Fritzy: The city, the city, the city. I says, "You low-life..."
Frank: Did you talk to the foreman?
Fritzy: Yeah, talk to the foreman, I says, "You low-life...
Frank: Whattya...
Fritzy: ...cocksucker." I told 'em...
Frank: When you put the green out, they, they...
Fritzy: I told 'em.
Frank: ...they'll move the house and everything.
Fritzy: I know that. I says and you, you take. But I says, but, but I blame my, my, this jerky Dominick outside. But yeah, I says, "You're another asshole, Dominick. Why don't you just say, 'Fellas, here, here's a coupla bucks. Take this stuff.' That's all you gotta say. You low-life, no-good cocksucker." What I didn't call him. Ya know?
Frank: What'd they say?
Fritzy: No, I'm talkin' about, uh, my guy, uh, this guy Dominick, [Italian] oogatz, that he was.
Frank: He didn't have to tell the guy. Just say, "Here, here's $20. Get rid of all this here."
Fritzy: They woulda been more than happy.
Frank: Ya know?
Fritzy: I do it all time. They took, they took old, old whattyacallits on me. They took, uh, old tubs, uh.
Frank: Mmm.
Fritzy: Uh, marone what they took for ten dollars. This guy's out there tryin' to beg, [In Italian, misers] when I tell ya, when ya got [In Italian, misers] around ya.
Frank: And he wind up takin' away for nothin'?
Fritzy: He was, he was out there, this guy and he's, he wanted them to do it for nothin'. Ya know? So, meantime.
Frank: That's why they say, "Tell the foreman."
Fritzy: Yeah, tell the foreman.
Frank: Soon as you put the green out...
Fritzy: I know.
Frank: "Don't tell the foreman we're takin' it."
Fritzy: I know, I know.
Frank: Alright, Freddie?
Fritzy: Eh, I'm doin' it all my life, Frankie.