FRANK: Hello, Freddie.
FRITZY: How are you?
FRANK: Alright.
FRITZY: I haven't spoken to you in a few days. I miss you.
FRANK: I know. I called your mother up yesterday.
FRITZY: You did?
FRANK: She wasn't home.
FRITZY: She went to the doctor.
FRANK: Alright?
FRITZY: Yeah, they took her to the doctor.
FRANK: I called you up and you wasn't home.
FRITZY: Ah, I had my problems I had to take care of.
FRANK: Yeah.
FRITZY: Well, you know. Nah, nah. Things are getting straightened out with her a little bit.
FRANK: Yeah.
FRITZY: Yeah, she's startin' to act nice.
FRANK: Huh?
FRITZY: Startin' to act a little nicer now.
FRANK: Yeah?
FRITZY: Yeah, it got a little better. I gave her a couple of humps and things got better.
FRANK: Yeah?
FRITZY: Yeah, yeah.
FRANK: The pipe went up, huh?
FRITZY: Yeah, sure. Meantime, I gave her a few fazoolas 'cause she says, ya know, this, I says, 'What are you? Whatever you need I give you. What's the matter?' You know, she says, 'I need a couple of, you know, a couple.' Ehh, I says, 'Here.' 'Oh, that's very nice of you.' I says 'Well, what is it something strange that I?' 'No, no. This and that.' So she was finally all that day. Then I give her a little drill and everything got a little better.
FRANK: She told you she loved you?
FRITZY: Sure.
FRANK: What'd she say? "I love you honey."
FRITZY: Yeah, but you know, I keep it a little, ya know.
FRANK: Yeah.
FRITZY: 'Cause otherwise it gets a little too carried away and then and next week the same fuckin' story is going to happen, so I know what I'm doin'. Hey, hey. I got, you know. My mother, you know, I'm just starting to, starting to get her a little straightened out. She turned around. Look, I would leave her be and I wouldn't worry about her but she's in a fucked up neighborhood. You know what I mean? It's, she's got a couple of nice neighbor, neighbors over there. The, the fuckin' neighborhood became all Puerto Ricans over there.
FRANK: No kiddin'.
FRITZY: Yeah, sure. Now, how do you convince this woman that we gotta pack up and go?
FRANK: Yeah.
FRITZY: Alright? She's there over twenty years over there. And she's not [UI] to leave behind any memories of my father. Besides, so she's fuckin' fightin' us night and day. I want to tell her I'll sell the house. I'll put her in an apartment if she wants to stay alone over here near me or near my aunt or near something. And she's got nothing to worry about, you know? But, you know, to leave her over there [quotes mother repeatedly saying, in Italian, that her current "rooms are good"]. And meantime, I, I, I fuckin' wind up arguing with her, had some fuckin' arguments and she was making me fuckin' sick, really.
FRANK: Yeah?
FRITZY: Yeah, so I says, 'Hey, what am I doin' over here?' I'm getting, she's the way she is and I'm gonna fuckin' go be.
FRANK: You ain't gonna change her.
FRITZY: What? Nothing's gonna change her.
FRANK: Nah
FRITZY: So what am I gonna do?
FRANK: See Larry's mother?
FRITZY: Yeah.
FRANK: Same way.
FRITZY: Yeah, hah?
FRANK: With the cane, she hits you on the head with it.
FRITZY: Yeah. Alright?
FRANK: Forget about it.
FRITZY: Ok, so...
FRANK: [UI]..."You are not putting me in a nursing home."
FRITZY: Yeah. We ain't looking to put her in no nursing home. I'm looking to bring her near me, or put her with me.
FRANK: Yeah, I know.
FRITZY: She don't wanna come, she don't want no fuckin' thing. Fuck that!
FRANK: After a while, they get, see Angelo's mother? The husband died, the same way.
FRITZY: Yeah. Yeah.
FRANK: Huh?
FRITZY: Yup, and they make you fuckin' crazy.
FRANK: Yeah.
FRITZY: You know really.
FRANK: They got a woman with her night and day. You know?
FRITZY: Yeah. That's what I'm gonna wind up doin'. If she don't wanna move outta there, that's what I gotta do.
FRANK: You gotta get her a woman to...
FRITZY: Yeah, but who the fuck? She don't want nobody with her. I know her.
FRANK: Ain't you got anybody you can think of?
FRITZY: I got, you know. My girlfriend says, 'I'll take her.' My girlfriend says, 'I'll take her.'
FRANK: Put Joe Carpets with her.
FRITZY: I says...
FRANK: Joe Carpets.
FRITZY: I says, 'Let me tell you something, she's got daughters she don't even want to go with. You think for me she's gonna come with you?' Gail is funny but, but she's got a good heart.