Sean : October 21, Will : Jesus Christ. You know the fuckin' date? Sean : Oh yeah. Biggest game in Red Sox history. Will : Yeah, sure. Sean : My friends and I had, you know, slept out on the sidewalk all night to get tickets. Will : You got tickets? Sean : Yep. Day of the game. I was sittin' in a bar, waitin' for the game to start, and in walks this girl.
Oh, it was an amazing game, though. You know, bottom of the eighth, Carbo ties it up at It went to twelve. Bottom of the twelfth, in stepped Carlton Fisk. Old Pudge. Steps up to the plate, you know, and he's got that weird stance. Will : Yeah, yeah. Sean : And BAM! He clocks it. High fly ball down the left field line! Thirty-five thousand people, on their feet, yellin' at the ball, but that's not because of Fisk.
He's wavin' at the ball like a madman. Will : Yeah, I've seen Sean : He's going, "Get over! Get over! Get OVER! OH, he goes apeshit, and 35, fans, you know, they charge the field, you know? Will : Yeah, and he's fuckin' bowlin' police out of the way! Sean : Goin', "God! Get out of the way! Get 'em away! Will : I can't fuckin' believe you had tickets to that fuckin' game!
Sean : Yeah! Will : Did you rush the field? Sean : [surprised at the question] No, I didn't rush the fuckin' field; I wasn't there. Will : What? Sean : No - I was in a bar havin' a drink with my future wife. Will : You missed Pudge Fisk's home run? Will : To have a fuckin' drink with some lady you never met? Sean : Yeah, but you shoulda seen her; she was a stunner.
Skylar : [in Skylar's dorm room] What is your obsession with this money? My father died when I was 13 and I inherited this money. You don't think that every day I wake up and wish I could give it back? That I would give it back in a second if I could have one more day with him? But I can't, and that's my life and I deal with it. So don't put your shit on me when you're the one that's afraid. Will : I'm afraid? What am I afraid of? What the fuck am I afraid of? Skylar : You're afraid of me!
You're afraid that I won't love you back! Fuck it, I wanna give it a shot! At least I'm honest with you. Skylar : [before leaving the bar to catch up with his friends] Maybe we could go out for coffee sometime? Will : Great, or maybe we could get together and just eat a bunch of caramels.
Skylar : What? Will : When you think about it, it's just as arbitrary as drinking coffee. Skylar : [laughs] Okay, sounds good. Will : I read your book last night. Sean : So you're the one.
Skylar : [while drinking coffee on the outside patio of a coffee shop] Do you have lots of brothers and sisters? Will : I'm Irish Catholic, what do you think? Skylar : But how many? Will : You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Skylar : Why? Go on, what, 5? How many? Will : I have 12 big brothers. Skylar : You do not have 12 brothers. Skylar : Do you know all their names? Will : Do I Skylar : What are they called?
Skylar : Say it again. Skylar Will : Willy? Will : [during a therapy session] You know, I was on this plane once. And I'm sittin' there and the captain comes on and he does his whole, "We'll be cruising at 35, feet," then he puts the mike down but he forgets to turn it off. Then he turns to the copilot and goes, "You know, all I could go for right now is a fuckin' blow job and a cup of coffee.
Will : [talking to Skylar in her dorm room] What do you wanna know? That I don't have 12 brothers? That I'm a fuckin' orphan? You don't wanna hear that You don't wanna hear that I got fuckin' cigarettes put out on me when I was a little kid!
That this. Will : is 'cause the motherfucker stabbed me! You don't wanna hear that shit, Skylar. Tell me you don't wanna hear that shit isn't fuckin' surgery! Sean : [during a therapy session, after coming from the job interview with the NSA] Do you feel like you're alone, Will? Will : [laughs] What? Sean : Do you have a soul mate?
Will : Define that. Sean : Somebody who challenges you. Will : I have Chuckie. Sean : You know Chuck; he's family. He'd lie down in fuckin' traffic for you. No, I'm talking about someone who opens up things for you - touches your soul. Will : I got - I got Sean : Who? Will I got plenty. Sean : Well, name them. Sean : That's great. They're all dead. Will : Not to me they're not. Sean : Well, you don't have a lot of dialogue with them. You can't give back to them, Will. Will : Well, not without some serious smelling salts and a heater.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You'll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you're always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road.
Skylar : What if I said I wouldn't have sex with you again 'til I got to meet your friends; what would you say? Will : I'd say it's in the morning; they're probably up. Skylar : [laughing] Men are shameless. If you're not thinking with your wiener, then you're acting directly on its behalf. Will : Thank you. Chuckie : [answering the phone at the other end] Eh! What the fuck? Will : Nothing, Chuckie; go back to sleep.
Skylar : [eating on a counter at a fast food stand] You were hoping for a good night kiss. Will : No, you know. I'll tell ya, I was hoping for a good night lay, but I'd settle for a good night kiss. Skylar : [bursts out laughing] How very noble of you. Will : Thank you But I was, you know, hoping for a good night kiss.
Skylar : Well, let's just get it out of the way. Come on, come on. Skylar : [after a few seconds, Skylar bursts out laughing] I think I got some of your pickle! Maybe you don't wanna ruin that. I think that's a super philosophy, Will; that way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody You ever think about gettin' remarried?
Sean : My wife's dead. Will : Hence the word: remarried. Sean : She's dead. Will : Yeah; well, I think that's a super philosophy, Sean. I mean, that way you could actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.
Sean : Time's up. Chuckie : Hey asshole. Will : What, bitch? Chuckie : Happy birthday. Sean : [in Sean's office] One night her fart was so loud it woke the dog up, she woke up and said," was that you? Will : [laughing] So she woke herself up? Sean : [laughing] Yeah, She's been dead two years and that's the shit I remember wonderful stuff these are the things I miss the most these idiosyncrasies that only I know that's what made her my wife and she had the goods on me too she knew all my peccadillos people call these things imperfections that's the good stuff that's what intimacy is all about the only way you find that out is giving it a shot.
Morgan : [in a bar] Man, I can't believe you brought Skylar here when we're all fucking bombed and been drinking. What the fuck is she gonna think about us? Will : [sarcastically] Yeah, Morgan, it's a real rarity that we'd be out drinking. Sean : [forcibly grabbing the front of Will's throat] If you ever disrespect my wife again, I will end you.
I will fucking end you. You got that, chief? Will : Time's up. Will : Fuck you. Sean : You're the shepherd.
Will : Beethoven, okay. He looked at a piano, and it just made sense to him. He could just play. Skylar : So what are you saying?
You play the piano? Will : No, not a lick. I mean, I look at a piano, I see a bunch of keys, three pedals, and a box of wood. But Beethoven, Mozart, they saw it, they could just play. I couldn't paint you a picture, I probably can't hit the ball out of Fenway, and I can't play the piano.
Skylar : But you can do my o-chem paper in under an hour. Will : Right. Well, I mean when it came to stuff like that I could always just play. Chuckie : Christ, who did you call? Will : [Sean is going through Will's profile. Inside we see are pictures of Will after brutal assaults by his foster parents] You ever have any, uh, experience with that? Sean : Twenty years of counseling, I've seen some pretty awful shit.
Will : No. I mean, have you ever had any experience with that? Sean : Personally? Yeah I have. Sean : My father was an alcoholic. Used to come home hammered, looking to whale on someone. So I had to provoke him, so he wouldn't go after my mother and little brother. Interesting nights were when he wore his rings Will : He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, "Choose.
Everything has a cost, it all just depends on how much you are willing to give up to achieve what you want. We can blow on the embers of hard truths that might cause blips in our plans and still find warmth in the fact we have set ourselves on a bearing and are still on the path.
And when or if we course correct, at least in victory or defeat, we find solace in the fact we had the gumption to try. Choosing the wrench might be stubborn, it also might be stupid. But for some, we just choose it because we can. Because it is the hardest of them all. Because the reward is greater than any discomfort or unease. I want to die knowing I embraced the stiffest winds and paths less traveled. I like your writing. Like Like. Thank you, I appreciate the feedback! In the end, some people still prefer the wrench just because they can.
I do agree, it becomes much easier to choose the path of least resistance as you age but maybe that path is the wrench for someone else. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content. Posted on June 3, June 15, by choosethewrench. Which of the three would you choose?
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