Mike Quote #751
Quote from Mike in A Quarry Story
Mike: Frankie, I'm shaking, I'm so mad. You should have seen this party. If anything had happened, we... We could have lost everything.
Frankie: [exhales deeply] You know, she didn't plan it.
Mike: Still. I never should have given her the keys in the first place. [sighs] I guess I'd expect this kind of idiot behavior from Axl, but not Sue.
Frankie: Mm-hmm.
Mike: I gotta ground her. Six months, minimum.
Frankie: Ooh, six months? [sighs] It's her senior year.
Mike: She's gotta learn.
Mike: "Dear Dad/Mr. H., I'm so, so very, very sorry. You gave me the greatest opportunity in the world when you hired me to work with you and clean trailer toilets and do so many other cool things. You put your trust in me, and I just hope that one day I might be able to win back your trust because..." [paper rustles] "Because it's so important to me that you can trust me, and I'll do whatever I can to..." [paper slides] [sighs] Maybe two months.
Frankie: [v.o.] Altogether, Sue slipped 22 pages under the door that night. Mike's punishment went from six months to six weeks, but Sue didn't think it was enough, so she jacked it back up to eight. Then we slowly forgot about it, and it petered out around four. On the plus side, when the final scores were tabulated, Sue was the big winner in Brick's game show extravaganza. Hey, you take the wins where you can get 'em.
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‘A Quarry Story’ Quotes
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: Mike, look at this. Not only did I get my back pay, but I made two commissions!
Mike: What? How'd you do that?
Frankie: Okay. You know how Oprah's motto is "live your best life"?
Mike: Can't that woman just stay retired?
Frankie: Well, here's my motto now. "Don't try."
Mike: I thought that was always your motto.
Frankie: I did, too. Turns out this whole time I thought I wasn't trying, I was actually trying a teeny bit. The key is to not try at all.
Quote from Frankie
Frankie: Okay, Mike, I just stepped on a fork in the tub. How many times have we told the kids, we wash spoons in the tub, knives and forks in the bathroom sink?
Mike: It's just common sense.
Frankie: [sighs] This is crazy. We can't go on like this. We need a silverware caddy in the shower.
Mike: I might have something in the garage we can use. How 'bout that old ice bucket that says, "it's 5:00 somewhere"?
Frankie: Oh, you know what? Since the dishwasher's not working right now, we could use the caddy from there. We'll just hang it on the showerhead where the shampoo thing usually goes. That would be perfect! Are you sad right now? 'Cause I'm really sad.
Mike: Look. I know we wanted to save money, and we gave it our best shot, but despite how much I'm gonna miss this whole hose situation, it's time to fix the sink.
Quote from Brick
Brick: Gorillas... tigers...
Mike: Should we ask?
Frankie: If we don't, it'll just look bad when the school calls. Okay, what's going on, Brick?
Brick: Tigers... lions... Tarzan...
Frankie: Why are you telling us things that are in a jungle?
Brick: Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding! I was online doing research for my pyramid paper, and I found something called The $25,000 Pyramid. Then I started watching other game shows. Fascinating. My favorite's Match Game. Have you heard of Nipsy Russell? Hi-larious. And Adrienne Barbeau... That is one foxy lady. And they were all having so much fun at a time when things were tough. Seems like we could use a little of that around here.
Frankie: I stepped on a fork in my bathtub.
Brick: This is what I'm saying.