Brick: I'm three days bookless, but I'm doing good, Mom. How are you doing with your resolution?
Frankie: Uh, I'm going into the laundry room now. You wanna come? I'll let you scoop the powder.
Brick: Scoop the powder? All right, Mom. I'm gonna give you one more shot. I don't have school on Friday, so we can spend the whole day together then.
Frankie: Oh, shoot. I would so love that, but I gotta work on Friday.
Brick: Okay. Arlo's mom is taking him to laser tag, so maybe I'll just go with him, spend the day with his mom.
Frankie: What? I mean, come on. Anybody can go to laser tag. You know what would be really fun? Coming to work with me. You can hang out and see what I do and why I'm so tired all the time.
Brick: You do seem overly tired for a woman your age.