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- 1778 had. I was sorry as hell I'd kidded her. Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they
1779 deserve it.
1780 Here's what was very funny, though. When we got back to the table, old Marty
1781 told the other two that Gary Cooper had just gone out. Boy, old Laverne and Bernice
1782 nearly committed suicide when they heard that. They got all excited and asked Marty if
1783 she'd seen him and all. Old Mart said she'd only caught a glimpse of him. That killed me.
1784 The bar was closing up for the night, so I bought them all two drinks apiece quick
1785 before it closed, and I ordered two more Cokes for myself. The goddam table was lousy
1786 with glasses. The one ugly one, Laverne, kept kidding me because I was only drinking
1787 Cokes. She had a sterling sense of humor. She and old Marty were drinking Tom
1788 Collinses--in the middle of December, for God's sake. They didn't know any better. The
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1789 blonde one, old Bernice, was drinking bourbon and water. She was really putting it away,
1790 too. The whole three of them kept looking for movie stars the whole time. They hardly
1791 talked--even to each other. Old Marty talked more than the other two. She kept saying
1792 these very corny, boring things, like calling the can the "little girls' room," and she
1793 thought Buddy Singer's poor old beat-up clarinet player was really terrific when he stood
1794 up and took a couple of ice-cold hot licks. She called his clarinet a "licorice stick." Was
1795 she corny. The other ugly one, Laverne, thought she was a very witty type. She kept
1796 asking me to call up my father and ask him what he was doing tonight. She kept asking
1797 me if my father had a date or not. Four times she asked me that--she was certainly witty.
1798 Old Bernice, the blonde one, didn't say hardly anything at all. Every time I'd ask her
1799 something, she said "What?" That can get on your nerves after a while.
1800 All of a sudden, when they finished their drink, all three of them stood up on me
1801 and said they had to get to bed. They said they were going to get up early to see the first
1802 show at Radio City Music Hall. I tried to get them to stick around for a while, but they
1803 wouldn't. So we said good-by and all. I told them I'd look them up in Seattle sometime, if
1804 I ever got there, but I doubt if I ever will. Look them up, I mean.
1805 With cigarettes and all, the check came to about thirteen bucks. I think they
1806 should've at least offered to pay for the drinks they had before I joined them--I
1807 wouldn't've let them, naturally, but they should've at least offered. I didn't care much,
1808 though. They were so ignorant, and they had those sad, fancy hats on and all. And that
1809 business about getting up early to see the first show at Radio City Music Hall depressed
1810 me. If somebody, some girl in an awful-looking hat, for instance, comes all the way to
1811 New York--from Seattle, Washington, for God's sake--and ends up getting up early in the
1812 morning to see the goddam first show at Radio City Music Hall, it makes me so
1813 depressed I can't stand it. I'd've bought the whole three of them a hundred drinks if only
1814 they hadn't told me that.
1815 I left the Lavender Room pretty soon after they did. They were closing it up
1816 anyway, and the band had quit a long time ago. In the first place, it was one of those
1817 places that are very terrible to be in unless you have somebody good to dance with, or
1818 unless the waiter lets you buy real drinks instead of just Cokes. There isn't any night club
1819 in the world you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get
1820 drunk. Or unless you're with some girl that really knocks you out.
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