ll both go in the drugstore.
- Is it safe?
Have to try it sooner or later.
Too pink.
What are you doing for dinner
tomorrow night?
For dinner?
Come on, it'll be fun.
Just for dinner.
You and me and Alexander.
Say 6:00.
It's 51021 st Street.
Know where that is?
Well, I don't believe I'm free then.
Think it over.
How old did you say
Alexander was?
He's 7.
Have you thought?
Have you given any thought
to coming to dinner?
Oh, I...
...could come.
If it's only for dinner.
What else would it be for?
Here he is.
Hi, sweetie.
Alexander, this is Macon.
Can you say hi?
You're young to be at the doctor's
without your mother.
He's used to it. He's had to go often.
He's got allergies.
I see.
He's allergic to shellfish, milk, eggs
and most vegetables.
We think he may be allergic to air.
Whenever he's outside a long time,
any uncovered skin gets these bumps.
If a bee stings him
and he hasn't had his shots...
...he could be dead in half an hour.
Dear Muriel...
...I am very sorry...
...but I won't be able to have dinner
with you tomorrow after all.
Something has come up.
Regretfully...
...Macon.
I've got a double-barreled shotgun
and I'm aiming it where your head is.
It's Macon.
Macon.
What are you doing here?
Last year...
...l... I lost...
I experienced a loss.
I lost...
I lost my son.
He was just...
He went into a hamburger joint...
...and then someone came...
...a holdup man...
...and shot him.
I can't go to dinner with people.
I can't talk to their little boys.
You have to stop asking me.
I don't want to hurt your feelings,
but I'm just not up to this.
Do you hear?
Every day I tell myself
it's time to be getting over this.
I know that people expect it of me.
But if anything, I'm getting worse.
The first year was like a bad dream.
I was clear to his door in the morning...
...before I remembered
he wasn't there to be wakened.
But the second year is real.
I've stopped going to his door,
I've sometimes let a whole day pass by...
...without thinking about him.
I believe Sarah thinks I could have
prevented what happened somehow.
She's so used to my arranging her life.
Now I'm far from everyone.
I don't have any friends anymore.
And everyone looks trivial
and foolish and...
...not related to me.
Just sleep.
Lie down and sleep.
What is it, Mom?
Go back to sleep, baby.
Everything's all right.
I just want to sleep.
Can you take this off?
I'm bashful.
- Hey there, Macon.
- Hey there, girls.
- Going to see Muriel?
- I thought I might.
- You brought your own dinner.
- Yeah.
Good idea. You bet.
All right, Gunther!
Pizza man. Extra-large
combination, no anchovies.
I'm allergic to pizza.
What part?
What part are you allergic to?
Pepperoni? Sausage? Mushrooms?
We can take it off.
All of it.
- Can't be allergic to all of it.
- Well, I am.
You didn't ask what happened with
his eye doctor. I was so worried about it.
Sometimes you'd think
Alexander wasn't your grandson.
Ma, I'm going now. Macon's here.
See?
I shut the valve off.
What did I do that for?
I'm not so sure about this.
He's not very strong.
Why did I shut off the valve, Alexander?
- Why?
- You tell me.
- You tell me.
- No, you.
- So the water won't whoosh all over?
- Right.
Now, first you
unscrew the top screw.
- Let's see you do it.
- Me?
- I don't want to.
- Just let him watch.
Then he won't know how
to fix the one in the bathtub...
...and I'm going to ask him
to manage that without me.
That's it. Hard!
Good.
Good. Good.
Look at that.
Wonderful!
I think you may have natural talents.
Now, take off the faucet head...
...and there is the culprit.
That has to be re-taped.
Then we take this wrench...
...to tighten this up.
- Now what?
- Go ahead and turn that valve.
There we go.
- Now what?
- Now we turn the water back on...
...and see what
kind of job you've done.
Look at that!
You've solved the problem.
Now, when you're grown,
you can fix