Thus far,
I've been speaking...
"of the fourth
and last kind of madness...
"which is imputed to him who...
"when he sees
the beauty of the earth...
"is transported
with the recollection..."
...the manager of
the Shoe Stop shoe store...
on Hacienda Boulevard
in La Puente.
Cood morning. Shoe Stop.
May I help you?
I have a hobby.
I like to chew on shoes.
It's something
I do at home, but I'm...
- You like to what?
- Chew on shoes.
Today is my day off.
I wondered whether I could
come down to Shoe Stop...
and just chew on some of
the shoes there for a while.
Cet out of here,
or I'll personally kill you.
- I'm not gonna wear them.
- Is it noticeable?
If another customer comes in
and wants that shoe...
is it going to be noticeable
that somebody nibbled on it?
Are your shoes that quality
that somebody's going care?
We don't carry junk here.
You do have terrific prices
down there...
because
it is self-service?
The shoes would sell elsewhere
for $20 or $16.90?
That's correct.
I'm at a pay phone
right around the corner.
Why don't you
just let me come over?
This is incredible.
Why don't you come over now?
I have some shoes in the back.
We'll talk about it.
If somebody's
going to eat shoes...
they might as well
eat the best, right?
Jay, you're leaving?
Just to New York for a week.
I've been calling
your place for weeks.
I couldn't call back.
Why? I was dying.
Mom thinks I'm going with Terry.
She likes him
because he smiles a lot.
It's obnoxious.
What's wrong with me?
You know.
The age thing.
For a change.
- I'm sixteen.
- Doesn't matter.
My grandmother
was having babies at sixteen.
Sheila had a baby at sixteen.
My grandmother was married.
She didn't
want to marry the guy.
OK. Don't get mad.
I want to ask you a question.
Do you really love me?
That's the question?
No, I'm getting to that.
But I want to know that first.
I'm in love with you.
You know what that means?
It means you throw up a lot.
No, seriously.
Every time
I listen to the radio...
every song I hear is about you.
I've been sick a lot.
What's the question?
I know we didn't actually
do anything that night...
because you have
this tremendous amount...
of respect for me.
I appreciate it.
Like you say, you don't
want to rush into anything...
not when you feel so deeply
about somebody, but...
Yeah?
What would have been
so wrong with it?
What?
If we made love...
would it have been so terrible?
Well, no.
What time does your plane leave?
They got planes
going all day to New York.
Hello?
Jeanie? Hi.
I've been
a terrible friend to you.
I've been keeping
a secret from you.
It's the most important secret
in my life.
I feel terrible.
I'm in love.
A guy named Jay.
You don't know know him.
He's much older.
Yeah. Cuess what?
I'm in his bed now. Yeah.
Madge... did you cry?
What the hell.
Maybe I will.
He says why don't I spend
all my time here?
When he's out of town,
everybody can stay here.
Yeah. Annie, too.
Annie's cool.
Yeah.
He wants to meet you, too.
I'll talk to you later, OK?
OK. Yeah, OK. Bye.
- That was Madge.
- I heard.
Things like that can really
make you sad, you know?
Yeah.
The day your best friend
gets devirginized.
No, it's not that.
She's the type of girl...
that goes to bed with a guy
once and marries him.
Come on.
A girl gets married at sixteen,
she'd have to be real ugly.
We'll probably
never see her again.
I'm not getting married
until I'm 26.
Maybe I'll have a baby...
and then decide
if I really need the guy.
But not before I'm 26.
What are you going to do
up until then?
Just what I'm doing now.
Have a good time.
Cood time.
This is making me sick.
I hope Jay doesn't mind
us using all his logs.
He won't mind.
Wait a minute. Shit.
We gonna have a fire again?
We're trying.
Isn't it awful hot?
Didn't you like the fire
we had last night?
Yeah. It was
like Campfire Cirls.
A lot of the old songs.
When you