Fritzy: Today's my best day I ever had in I can't remember when.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: Today's the best day I've ever had, so far.
Frank: You had a good day?
Fritzy: No, in other words, it's one of the best days I've had. I can't remember feelin' so good.
Frank: Thank God.
Fritzy: I can't remember feelin' this good. Like, the, I must've been walkin' around really [In Italian, sick.]
Frank: Why doncha go to church and say a prayer?
Fritzy: I said it. I did already.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: I did already.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Sure. I went this mornin'. What, are you kiddin' me? The best, best day I've had. I can't believe, I even told my wife, I says, "You know, I...I'm startin' to breathe like I was 20 years old."
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: No kiddin'?
Fritzy: Yeah. How are ya?
Frank: Alright, Freddie.
Fritzy: Did you make, uh, Kansas City? Like my son told ya to bet?
Frank: No.
Fritzy: You didn't. You went the other way?
Frank: I didn't bet.
Fritzy: You didn't?
Frank: Nah.
Fritzy: Oh, alright. I just wanna know. See, two to one, you woulda had the dog.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: You know? Whattya eatin'? I hear ya munchin'.
Frank: Slice of toast and a cup of coffee.
Fritzy: Yeah? I was tryin' to get you, your line was busy.
Frank: I, my cousin come in from Florida.
Fritzy: Yeah? Here to visit ya or what?
Frank: Well, they, I saw them last night over my brother's.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: And they called me up. They wanna go to dinner tomorrow, so I'm gonna meet them at Joe's at 6 o'clock.
Fritzy: That's nice.
Frank: Ya know?
Fritzy: That's good.
Frank: I'll take Œem to eat...
Fritzy: I put my mother in the hospital.
Frank: What happen?
Fritzy: She, may, she had little strokes, she had with that, that thing that happened, ya know? So, what they're doin' now is, I brought her yesterday, they done a CAT scan on her, then they doin' the, uh, whattya, whattya call that brain thing, the key, the E-K-G or K-somethin'? E-G-G-K or somethin'?
Frank: Somethin' like that...
Fritzy: Somethin' like that. They're doin' that and, uh, they're checkin' her kidneys out, they're doin' all different work on her.
Frank: How'd ya like this, huh?
Fritzy: Yeah, I know.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: I know. I know.
Frank: One thing after the other, huh?
Fritzy: I know. I know. But, she was battlin' right along and, uh, I was seein' all different sides, her reactions, uh, ya know. She's startin' to act funny, like she gets stubborn and, uh, just make up her mind a certain way. And she never was that way, ya know?
Frank: The same thing happened to what's-his-name's mother.
Fritzy: Who's that?
Frank: The, the, the brothers.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: Remember when the father, and how the mother got?
Fritzy: Well, she, see my mother's not. But my mother's been sick. My mother's got a little diabetes, a very little bit.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: She's got a little heart trouble. You know?
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: But the blood pressure went out of line. I, I was takin' her the night before last. It was 207.
Frank: Uh.
Fritzy: But the idea is they, they gave her injections. They gave her everything. They must've knocked her down from maybe close to 300.
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: Must've been 280, 300. Who knows what the hell it was? So now they're...
Frank: ...hear about her in the hospital.
Fritzy: Yeah, I, I know, but meantime, if they would take... Wha?
Frank: Sorry to hear about it.
Fritzy: I know. I know. Well, at least we could take care of her better, ya know? I turned around, I says, "Well, we, I was goin' every night over there, for two nights." "Don't change her environment," they says. She forgot everything. She forgot. "What day is it? What this? What that?"
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Ya know? Well, you know, you got your mother there...
Frank: I went to see her yesterday. She's bad.
Fritzy: She don't remember nothin'.
Frank: Nope. She's just layin' there suffering now.
Fritzy: Aww. I don't want to see my mother that way.
Frank: Nah, forget about it.
Fritzy: I don't wanna see her that way.
Frank: She's like this for a while now.
Fritzy: Well, she's got her head. She's got her senses. They're givin' her blood thinners. They give her all the other medications, plus the blood thinners, uh, plus different things. They gotta keep that blood thin.
Frank: When did she go in? Yesterday, Freddie?
Fritzy: I put her in this mornin'.
Frank: Oh, this mornin'?
Fritzy: Yeah. No, I just put her in. We were, we were waitin' for a private room.
Frank: She had a slight stroke?
Fritzy: Well, we were sleepin'. Yeah.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: Yeah. We were sleepin' over the house, ya know?
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: We were stayin' there with her. So, uh, eh, whattya gonna do?
Frank: How you feel? Alright?
Fritzy: I told ya, I, geez, I was drivin' this mornin' and I says, "Ya know, I can't remember if, ya know, that I could...
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: ...that I felt this, ya know..."
Frank: You were in such a rut, you, you figured that's the way you gotta feel.
Fritzy: That's the way I gotta feel, alright?
Frank: In other words you say, "Well, I'm gettin' older now. That's the way you gotta get."
Fritzy: Alright. [In Italian, all the pain], remember, I was tellin' ya? All the pains, one year, the pains.
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: Well the, uh, pains. My shoulders, my back.
Frank: Nothin' bothers you now?
Fritzy: Nah, I got my little, uh, back a little bit. My shoulders don't bother me. My shoulders and my...
Frank: Your blood pressure's good now, huh?
Fritzy: Sure. My blood pressure's readin'...tell Baldy my blood pressure's 120 over 80.
Frank: That's good.
Fritzy: Tell him like that.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: And it's not just for a day, it's been consistent. Now I'm gonna do my... [Aside to his wife] C'mon, let's do it now, Carol. Let's see, maybe I'll be full of shit. I'm gonna let her do it now, we'll do a test.
Frank: Yeah. How's your food? You watchin' it?
Fritzy: Yeah. Hey, whattya think I cooked? I cooked a rabbit.
Frank: Aww. What the hell you eat a rabbit?
Fritzy: See now, you don't know about a rabbit.
Frank: Forget about it.
Fritzy: A rabbit has no cholesterol whatsoever.
Frank: Yeah, I know.
Fritzy: Whattya mean, "Yeah, I know?"
Frank: You're crazy, huh?
Fritzy: Well, look up, a, a rabbit. Look up rabbit.
Frank: He's eatin' a rabbit.
Fritzy: Yeah, I ate a rabbit. No cholesterol. I made a gravy. [Aside to his wife] Take it out of the hole there. Wait.
Frank: [UI] the gravy.
Fritzy: And I made a gravy. So I told my kids it's veal.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Yeah, they, when my son saw the heads, he says, "You ain't foolin' me." He says, "That's a rabbit."
Frank: My brother loves that gravy.
Fritzy: Oh, hey, Frankie, Frankie...
Frank: Louie loves the rabbit gravy.
Fritzy: Yeah, you gotta talk to Carol and let Carol tell you how it came.
Frank: No kiddin'?
Fritzy: And without salt.
Frank: No kiddin'?
Fritzy: You know how I made it? Yeah.
Frank: You gonna have a dish of it?
Fritzy: Yeah. I had two dishes.
Frank: That's good. That's all, huh?
Fritzy: That's all.
Frank: And have a salad.
Fritzy: That's what I had, a salad. Exactly. You called it.
Frank: Don't have no meat now.
Fritzy: No, I had the meat. That's it.
Frank: You had, like, the, uh, uh, this here now, don't mix the meat...
Fritzy: Well, I had the pasta and a little meat from the, uh, sauce.
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: A coupla...
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Yeah. So I had that, ya know? But, if you want the recipe I'll tell ya. Ya know how I made the, ya know, when you fry the, uh...
Frank: I don't know. I never make it.
Fritzy: No, no. But, let's say you were fryin' the meat, right? We don't fry it. We bake it in the oven.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: With [In Italian, onions]. We bake it until it's brown.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Then we take it all out of the pan and mix it into the tomato and cook it in the, the tomato.
Frank: Oh, you bake the rabbit in the oven?
Fritzy: Bake it first and then put it in the tomato.
Frank: I see.
Fritzy: See?
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: [Aside to his wife] So, what are you waitin' for Carol? [UI] waitin' for me to go ahead. I'm waitin' for you to pump it and...now, my blood pressure...
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: Alright. See, I just ate.
Frank: Uh-huh. I'm glad you're well and everything Freddie.
Fritzy: I'm feelin' very well.
Frank: Good.
Fritzy: Thank...the first day that I could say that I had a better day.