Automated Voice: [on machine] Hello. Your son or daughter was absent from school today. Please have them... [Frankie stops the message]
Axl: Not me. I mostly went to school today.
Sue: I don't skip.
Brick: [enters] Whew. I'm beat. This whole job thing is a real grind.
Frankie: Brick, did you not go to school today?
Brick: Yes, I did not.
Mike: Come on. It took you this long to finish your paper route?
Brick: Oh, I wish. I'd say I'm roughly two-thirds done. I just came home to grab a flashlight. I really could use those night vision goggles now, huh? Ironic.
Frankie: That's out of batteries, like everything else in this house, and besides, you're not going out again. It's too late.
Mike: Look, I don't know what you were doing out there, but I'll take you out tomorrow. And see if we can shave a little time off this route.