172: 24 Hours at the Golden Apple
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There's certain things you should really only say to your best friend. This is probably one of them.

Just shut up and just listen to somebody .

that's build out there. Better time is got .

an all night dinner around midnight sky is to vell entire has been working all night as a bartender at a chinese restaurant, saving lots of free drinks on the slide to time. And tom, in response, seems astonied shingly ungrateful. Here is a kind of says that time keeps .

throwing Scotts away. Needed the food and the bears and all had stuff I get to come down after your traumatic night. Is stealing from .

your employer really? Just at that moment, a man on in the hand print chart and kakei pants walks by their table. He hears the word employer, mistakes IT for the word lawyer. And that turns to time. Are you?

Oh, no, no. Do you want to to be who brought up a lawyer to start? You just came in. No, what he .

didn't say.

Law thought you hurt something. And then you let your .

mind take over in the art of listening. And the swann said .

you wanted to be a lot of definitely wouldn't ire you because you heard completely wrong, really. yeah.

There are some conversations that you overhear and is hard not to want to keep listening or to put in, even though everybody knows that IT is not the right thing to do.

Once sunday morning, while back, I was sitting in one of the boots in this very dinner, the gold apple in chicago, and look and seven, and walked around the restaurant, the table next to me, a family was taking their teenage daughter out to knock with last breakfast, where SHE shipped out with military. They were dressed up, people who had come in from the church across the street, and Young couples who stumbled in with the paper and were working on the crossroad together. And I thought, if only somebody could interview every person at every table in this restaurant, that would be amazing.

You get such a wide variety of different kinds of stories from different kinds of people. So we decided to try IT. One friday night, a big group of us took shifts starting at five A M and going to five A M.

The next morning during quiet hours. IT was just one of us on duty recording and interviewing people during the busiest hours, which means late night there are four of us work the tables. The first broadcast today's program all the way back in two thousand.

And we really running again, again today. Do you be easy? Chicago today show twenty four hours at the goldman apple. This american life on our glass stay turned.

Five, five clock in the morning. My name is pete. I walked from ten P M to five A. M, and I would have the text drivers in the cups you for for cup coffee until six clock. The morning crowd was going to peace.

One of the three owners of this restaurant, along with nick and tom, all three year greek, and one of them is always there, twenty four hours a day, the restaurant sites that one of those intersections where three streets come together, not too. So every one of the corners in the intersection is wed shaped, which means that the restaurant itself is wind shaped with booze along the windows on two sides of the wedge.

Here's a counter with tools in a large room with tables in the back, where there's oversized, limited menus that go on for pages, pages with pictures of the food. By the door is one of those reviving dessert cases and afterguard made of glass, three shelves of Green pies and melon slices and cakes lately have another trouble. Here's nick. Another one of the owners supposed to be turning.

It's not turning because the motor broke. Jimmy supposed to come out like three days ago. He's still coming.

Now if you can figure this one out. The pie case is not turning and believe in, and that is not selling this good. That's that's truth.

Desert sales are down, he says. I have ever since I broke people just like deserts more. When they're in emotion.

IT catches the eye, you know, when it's turn in, IT catches the eye, and IT IT sells.

Over the course of twenty four hours, the staff of the golden apple changes, the regulars to come in change, and the atmosphere changes for quiet, nearly morning, crazy, hectic, late at night. And the bars in neighbor od got out nanc uptick took the first shift about twenty four hours surveilling Michael hand from five A M to ten A M.

This is Eddie. He comes to the golden apple a few times a week in the mornings and place the harMonica in the middle of the restaurant for a few minutes. He's in a pale blue shirt and hopping lightly from foot to foot .

if I fall down.

Eddy heads to the back of the restaurant to play there. No one is complaining. No one is rolling your eyes. In fact, a few people are smiling and saying, hi, eddy is not an outsider here. He's a regular early morning at the golden apple is like that, a profoundness democratic place. Early morning welcomes the night shift workers, the unemployed, the retired, the confused, the disappointed, the slightly off the people who work for themselves and the people who don't work at all anymore, but crave a little morning .

routine every morning. I'm here between four, thirty and five. I love the goal and apple.

They are wonderful people. They got good food. And that IT.

This is how je molecule ends every sentence.

And that.

or sometimes. Joes not used to talking about himself. His story comes out bit by bit. Our entire conversation takes place in a different era. He's completely unself conscious about calling me honey.

He bangs on his coffee cup with his spoon to get the waitress this attention for a refill. Please don't try this at home. But he gets away with that.

I do construction remodelling rehab, and that's what I do. I retired on seventy eight years old, and I gave the business of my two sons. And that if.

how did you start that business to my dad.

my dad, on the same time when I was, I don't know, maybe ten, eleven years old, I start working for him who was playing me a dime an hour. And that was IT clean up, sweep up the floors that he's working on. What do you want .

know at five thirty in the morning, almost everyone is sitting alone by choice IT seems jose friend bob is sitting in his own booth behind jao. No one's talking much, but it's a comfortable silence. When you're up this early, it's hard not to feel some sense of community with everyone else who's awake, but you don't necessarily want to talk to them.

As IT gets lighter and lighter outside, more people trickle in. A guy with thick, dark blond d hair and a face that looks like you could use another six hours sleep sits down at the counter. His name is Scott Johnson, and he says he usually comes in around three thirty A M, but today's different.

about twenty after seven.

How do you start coming in the golden apple?

I own a bar right on the street is called with its, and I one to called jake.

How did you get into the bar business?

H.

Y, well, about eight years ago, I turned thirty, quit my career, dorce and boat about in the same month.

Oh god.

t to to stand up, side down and to look IT very hard, change my life forever.

It's completely light outside now commuter traffic is picking up. The golden apple isn't crowded, but all the front booths are taken and most of the counter nick keeps getting deliveries. Orange juice, potatoes and his butcher comes by john service.

John is a big man in that way. That's the norm in chicago. Not fat, just big. John has been eating at the golden apple and supplying its meat for ten years. When he was eight years old, he became famous for being the Youngest butcher in lan oi.

Back in one hundred and and nine I was interviewed by fy flint. I don't know you remember back in one hundred and seventy nine, fahey flin was a well known news and right here, channel seven news, before he died, eighty one. I was the Youngest bertino annoying nine hundred and seventy nine. And yeah, the governor times down and all to my father was in a retail business and and all street in the this eyes turn learning and had to cut. So i've been done this for, i'm thirty three now and by and I was like eight years old.

T you are butcher when you were eight?

Well, you, i've been involved, you know, cleaning tables in about two thousand years older. I started to meet on a business of.

do you member the first piece of meat you? Ca.

poor chaps support when I slice. I remember very well like he was yesterday, a real sloan ABS of portraits or coins like eighteen pounds. You, I, I first thing I did is cut IT down the middle and start from the middle. The trick is a at the end, not to cut your hands when IT comes really small. And you ve got to use a special kind of thing that underneath the band saw not to put your hand in IT because a band saw doesn't have any friends I mean, if it's gonna grab your hands going to cut IT.

The front of the golden apple is the smoking section. Sitting there is a british woman with a fleshy face in wave. Here in one of the small two person boots. Her name is Alice delucchi .

work at a perforation center. It's sina running vitamins and minerals. Als, it's a program to rid your body of cat may be a thing.

Wow, have you've done the .

program yourself?

Yes, I have.

Now to the naked eye, IT looks like you're smoking and drinking coffee and about to have some sausage. So how is that square with the whole talks and thing?

Well, i'm trying to wake up.

You need .

some taxes to wake up.

I guess so.

The restaurant never gets crowded this morning, turn over a slow, people linger over their coffee or their conversation. It's a weekday, so there's no impatient brunch crowd waiting for tables to open up. And if you don't have an office you need to get to, why rush? Dina.

the waitress, is finishing .

up the night shift in getting ready to go home. She's been on since even pm, but you would never know what to look at her. She's six feet tall and looks like Katherine to move. She's one of the most beautiful people i've ever seen in person. How long if .

you've been working here twenty six years?

Wow, how old are .

you when you started?

You think I tell you that, are you kidding? My kids don't even know how I am.

Dona says she's actually not a night person, but she's worked the night shift the entire time. All twenty six years. SHE came to chicago from OK homa city in her early twenties .

with three kids. Was just when I came here and I had married so Young, had my children Young, no education, and I have a little baby. That's why I I worker nights.

But this is a great job for that. I mean, working nice that way. You're with you during the day you don't sleep much, but when there's sleep and you're working, i'm so working the night shift, I don't know why, but I still in.

Every Christmas eve dinner brings in a big tray of homemade ID cookies for the homeless guys and the old men and the taxi drivers. Anyone who shows up that night every once a while on her afternoon on should go see a place starting one of the actors who come in every night after their own shift, waiting tables. Her customers give her tapes of the bands they're in, bringing their artwork, her sea, tell her about their successes and failures. These are people she's known for years.

It's I come here to me, and I think when I think about, you know, on the daytime I just can it's sometimes that i'd be another, you know, a separation because you like home when you ve been here. The song danna .

runs her shift at the golden apple with a lot of compassion and generosity, but like any good waitress, she's also ruthlessly practical. SHE can be direct when he needs to. Early morning is no time .

to stand on ceremony. My rest, my work.

can I? Are you doing anything to set up, but cleaner .

to see what I get to do?

Follow around and you tell me what you're doing. Others .

like. I didn't want to be rude.

In the middle of the day, a muted light streams through the windows through a power haze of cigarette smoke IT certain now it's IT feels like everybody is smoking at the gold apple three industrial smoke eres i'm non stop at launch. Some customers come in, eat quickly and head back to work after just a half hour. But there in the minority, probably three force of the customers are regular, many them state for hours, nicky owner says, sometimes two or three times a day.

I think they go home and sleep, of course, but this is their best. We got the charly right now and there are on that comes twice, three times a day. Floy, which is right next to match mitch with the sun on the counter.

He's counter man. Mister harland there with Steven. They come twice a day. Rush comes about three, four times a day or two, three times a day.

At counter, a man who looks a little bit like the actor Harry dean stanton scrappin lean is here for the second time, twenty four hours. He gives me what he says. This is nickname.

Bert says he usually just comes to coffee, can afford my child, I before I can have him, because i'm single, no life book girl. No good. Robert is one of three different men to tell me that they come here in the afternoon to drink coffee e and talk to the waitress ses.

Three actually seem a little shy and intimidated by the waitress ses. Robert is so bashful, he has a hard time saying much of anything to them. I never said more than hello, you know, goodbye that's like, I don't know what to say, you know.

At the table in the back mono hannan is this year, for the second time today is a retired carpenter came to chicago of a mexico one thousand nine hundred sixty five. One of the work is to build the serious tower downtown on the tallest buildings in the world. He could, he says, when they guy to one hundred fifth four IT was to win the up there, after two guys, they falls down.

And then I quit. This I I don't want to see next, as the afternoon passes, he cost over one of the waitresses Sherry and ask her for help reading a document that he gotten the man from an insurance company. So where did some kind of sm SHE reads? IT tells them now they're sent him a check.

H rio SHE says, this kind of thing happens all the time. Some of these guys who wants to have to turn to have on the sidewalk when the weather is good, restaurants, ts of tables, IT won Alice and mass grave and her two kids are eating. E, N is four.

Madman is two. both. They are wearing their bicycle helmets at the table and eating the Mickey mouse pancakes, three pancakes arranged in violation of U.

S. Copyright law. Two years in ahead marisha. O Cherry can't pine apple and whip cream. Is the eyes and mouth there IT with maple syrup. And you have a sugar concoction so powerful that four year old ean literally cannot .

sit in his chair in in, around here. please. Thank you.

I don't live far from here, and I do not think there is a four year old in a ten block radius who does not know the makey mouse pancakes. Turn around now you and turn around, please.

Restaurant has toys for kids in a corner inside one couple of mike and liz tell us that they come here sel often with the four and seven year old. We ll go at home here that we've instructed the kids that if they're ver lost, this is just fine. A policeman, I tell him not to bring them home, bring them to the golden apple this evening fall takes a while for the dinner cwd to show up in any kind of force.

It's a slow day. Everybody says that is friday and couple start to arrive. Someone dates, some just friends, some of that vogue territory in between.

And the topics of conversation in the room start to make an orbital shift. Told couple sorts of topics. One of our producers, Susan burton, notices one couple, in particular.

a man and a woman in their thirty sit down in a booth by a window. The mansong ang hair is tied back with a bandana.

I'm Daniel romero Silvia. I just got through playing a few sets of tennis and grant park and stopped healing earth for a little incense and um some good karma and we decided to stop grab by. You servian I have have this kind of weird history. SHE actually dumped me not too long ago, and .

that's right that long.

So he is, she's now happily and in a relationship. And I was telling her, as we were driving here, about how how lonely I am.

Actually, it's been three years since Daniel sylvia broke up. They met when they work together at the same nonprofit .

organization to tall. I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you. I actually, when you first told me that I actually wasn't serve.

but I did. I did tell you that I won.

Be participating there. You'll have my best wishes.

Our friends, I still love you, care about you. Why can you be there?

Well, well, why can IT IT would just be weird. I mean, you and I have a pretty significant history together, but I I would still be happy for you and you'd have my my best wishes. And i'll still buy you a toaster.

I told you, no, okay? See, I think that that's unusual. I think I would be very happy for you.

what? I have some feelings there. Yeah, maybe there isn't. Be a little twins thinking, why?

Why wasn't IT me? That's actually a sex in a city topic a lot. absolutely. In case you've .

missed IT sex in the city as A T V show in HBO, each episode circles around some central question, like can you be friends with your x if Daniel and sov ni we're suddenly cast in our own episode of the show, this would be the moment where I would like to cigarette and flip up in my power book and ponder what i'd seen. Daniel. Sylvia began by talking about sylvia's new boyfriend, but wounded up discussing each other. And I started to wonder, when you talk about your axis new relationships, are you really just talking about the two of you?

I didn't tell you this. You asked me how my love life was a little bit earlier. I didn't meet somebody about a week ago. Her name is amy, and he works at, where does he work at? SHE works a supercuts, and SHE was with her, her boyfriend, actually.

he was.

and he was me. SHE said to me, I want to go out with you and I said, fine, let's go out. SHE says, well, you have to wait a month because i'm still going out with there's idiot over here and and she's talking about you and so nothing happened though now.

with a woman who want to grade her boy from that way, who would treat the guy that she's bly dating that way?

But i'm not onna marry. I'm not onna marry this girl. You know, I mean, you know I mean, I wasn't interested in in a lifetime commitment at that moment. I mean, I was much more looking for that .

the immediate .

ratification. That's what you're always looking for.

Tirely true.

That's not entirely true. Each time Daniel brings up someone he's interested in, so via gets exasperated with them for refusing to make a commitment IT happens when he mentions the woman he saw allowed to share by a pool in lost vegas in the girl he's taken on a dozen date, but it's pretty sure he wants to break up with IT turns out that this is a conversation theyve had before at the end of their own relationship.

I was ready for the next step, and he was ready to back out anytime I press forward. He went backwards a couple steps.

You're right. You and I were in a place where you were frustrated because I couldn't move forward. I was frustrated because you are pressing so hard.

And right next girl and moved .

in with her after three weeks.

I think it's a hard topic for us both.

Absolutely, absolutely. yes. Here, just just in the side of you is like he trails off .

staring out the window.

I don't know. It's kind of heart to it's .

kind of heart talk when two pages go back outside .

on the sidewalk, two girls with long hair and short skirts approach the catch Daniel's eye. He mumbles as the girl strived by the window. He turns his head and follows them from one end of the glass to the other. The gesture seems to happen in slow motion.

Does that all the time.

I know that i'm just saying that when we were in together and you did that, that really hurts.

Even even it's just looking IT says .

you're not interested in what's going on right here and that's exactly what you did by you couldn't even even formulate the sentence because your eye balls were glued to that window. No.

this this is another this has been another topic on on sex in the city.

Just for the record, what actually happened in that episode? The woman got so mad at her boyfriend that SHE punched him in the face and then SHE realized couldn't change him.

Liver by the restaurant front windows, which will Gavin sana fanis cathode church, a huge building sits. k. Frank, no, our friends is kate king, seventy five years old, dressed in a nice outfit, t matching scarf. She's because one of her a long time neighbor's, another golden mapper customer, is laid out dead in the funeral hom right across the street. Suit and pair respects SHE doesn't that she's lived her whole life with him.

Walking distance of this very spot. I was born and raised on lake with seventy five years ago, went to see our fans to school. So this is my neighbor for a long time.

and that gives .

me a lot of pleasure to walk the neighborhood and say, margret coins lived in the house. Was Lucia such a live in the house? I can still see all the things in my mind, as I did in the thirties and forties, back them.

For instance, a pharmacy was on this pot, and k and her friends would come here after a eleven ccc mass.

I'm talking about first year, second year high school when you didn't go to the Kitty mess anymore. And nine o'clock in the morning, this was like a hang out here after me. S, in this whole section here, they had a wonderful sort of fountain was right here. Or if this would be, see what i'm saying.

SHE points at a section of booth. For years this neighbor d was all about which parish you belong to. Anas for the germans, said Andrews for the irish and italian, saying Joseph for the polish to finally, in the thousand nine hundred sixties, that ended case five sisters and her parents, I moved away from the neither.

I'm only when they stated neighborhood because we could afford to move out here. We bought our house in the mid sixty sixty four, and everybody thought neighborhood was gonna a change. So of course, they are moving to the suburbs. Our father, north or farther west.

change. You mean people thought IT wasn't .

going to be White anymore? Yes, they thought I was gonna down. That's why people were scared and moved down.

So um we couldn't afford to move. So we bought house for twenty seven thousand. P A offers a five hundred, five hundred fifty thousand for .

my house memo. Whatever sisters who moved to area are too expensive for carer or husband afford just older house from with two hundred thousand into vacation, which spread through this neighbor od in the last fifteen years as he made IT up to where her sisters live. But around here on southport, no car, and all over there are good tips and several starbucks and expensive restaurants with fake european names.

The neighborhood has changed the life, you know, a whole life, some for the Better, some for the worse. Cause by we have our gay people, which we never had as a kid. They were around maybe.

but we didn't know .

know who they were today. You know who they are. My husband coming from the old school.

We have the nicest neighbours we've ever had, two gay men. They came to enough for you. They cut your grass for you. They wait now that i'm older. And when they moved in, my husband coming from way back, oh my god, you know, you didn't want really too much to do with them.

Within a year, i'd say we saw that there were nice people, very clean. And when we had our fifty eighth wedding anniversary party and some great chenet here, IT was our neighbors and went to the hall without any. They wouldn't take a penny.

They decorated that place that you wouldn't believe. No, I mean, neighbors will do that for you, you know, so, gay or not gay, they're really nice people. So I think that the gays can be credited for being such a ized people. They sweat a lot of the old time people into different thinking. Um there's .

still .

a lot of racial stuff. Maybe if you had a black neighbor here or one of the people would rent to a black person, I think theyd be found a panel of IT. But if you went to a gay person today, it's okay.

A lot of things that we think I should be this way in that way as you've grow up, it's really not that way. I shouldn't be that way. So I don't feel we should really judge up, you know, let the large judge up.

Coming up trunks, party years, people on the make and lots of other people to try not to judge. I mean, we haven't not even gotten to the cops in a minute from chicago ob a radio, warm up the coffee for you when our program continues. This is american life from our glass today on a program twenty four hours at golden apple if you're just training.

And we try to interview every person at every table twenty four hour restaurant here in chicago, starting at five A M in the morning on friday, july fourth s going to five A M the next morning. This is all back in the year two thousand two o rerun. Not everybody said yes.

Not everybody could fit into a one hour radio show. And the day is just heating up. It's just ahead of midnight. One of the owners, peat, is explaining something sort of surprising about a restaurant like this to I reporter.

when the door we never close, we have no kiss. We have no kiss. If you see those, we have no luck. Always open, would never, never like a those.

Just at that moment, a Young woman burst through the door, I think SHE swifts around and drunkenly tries to lock IT keep two friends out. IT takes a second before he realizes there are no locks. The three stumble to a table.

This is kim. I'm ethe golden apple N, O, M, and i'm with .

ice and bag ice cream.

No, geria is. But and I are ready in a cabin. He like hot.

I've never remember this guy. I need an order of food my general way. yeah. So I understand what you're doing right now.

I work with kim and kim loves, I don't live dowton. I live in the suburbs and kim, I was like, okay, we I live downtown 的。 I do. I think he .

lives IT doesn't .

matter anyway. So we go to this premier party of the star's exhibit at the field museum. IT was so asking this, my, my stars.

look, see. IT.

yeah. star. worse. I'm the most sober one here, as you can probably tell.

So anyway, that's fine. I meet, ask her. We just meet him like singing.

The party offers. He buys us a couple shots. So we're like, we not fine, we searching with them. We search tag nom.

Oh, so i'm sitting there talking to him after, and I feel two hands on my back, the two hands I do not recognize, two hands that I do not want on my body. And I look, and who do I see? IT is asher, and I don't even know your last name.

Do radio.

i'll be honest. I be anice of you. He paid for a lot of tonight, like he paid for my drink. Okay, great.

You know what? Don't touch me, but you can buy my drink to me if you're going to happen to the cabin and pay for IT. I know why you can care with me.

That's kind and he's probably going to a buy our food here at night. So that's kind of me brittle truth. So i'm just antis. I'm going to go home with you.

My, my name's asher. I bought them. I bought them a drinker too. I.

A bottle of three hundred dollars champagne. K.

just OK.

I say we.

i'll be confused. Ly, ask you, my goal is to share about tonight. Yeah, I have .

to share. bad. He just wants to get some play, basically that where you're same as and now.

but if you follow us on, one of them too will be about with me night.

Would I be something here talking to you if MC any breakfast for them? If I was not to go home with night, either look a more and or. Or I know so they that you know.

Ask here you are a good night. I understand you have a lot of hormones, and that's fine of me. You're just not going to be able to act on him with me.

I don't know about you, but I have me either. Unless is paying by food, where are all the wage? I don't the waes.

I want to cock the dinner is at capacity, and he feels like one big party. A woman sits in a booth in the back with a friend. She's in early forties, grew up in neighborhood.

My name is Nancy. Where am I? And wet time is IT. I don't think i'm really here. I think that i'm doing like a two dimensional kind of thing. So there's part of me that's here and then .

there's part of me that's .

somewhere else, the future me. So what time is IT earthly time? It's one fifteen A M, and there is no time where my future self is. You know how you, when you go to sleep, when you dream, how you can bend and shape the events that take place in their dream.

Well, that what if that were your reality? And what if this were the dream? You know, you can actually paint your future, and you can make everything that ever happened is he happening and will happen, has already happened, is shaped, shifting time and events, so that you know why your soul is here.

And that's the purpose to know why you're here, to know why you came back. I know one past life I was a cowboy, and I was shot by accident. And i've met two of my four buddies that I was with together here.

And we agreed to come back on some kind of some liminal basis. So yeah, I was a cowboy in one lifetime, probably right before the turn of the century. And my other lifetime, I really don't know, but I know I was crushed and I don't know by what, but probably a large building.

I haven't identified the time yet and still working on that. Can I have? Can I .

have a .

short step, please?

没错。

thank you.

Not her away in another boot sit and you and seventeen and alison, eighteen, the best friends. Month ago, because of problems at home, Daniel moved in with alison's family. They both live in the basement there. Now you've been driving from the suburb to the gold maple hang out meat friends guys.

mostly we're sitting here waiting for the guy, jeff, who's hopefully gone to come. We've just been coming here for the last three night, about midnight one o'clock, just sitting here waiting for branded m people to show up. He kind of has a crash on this guy, and so we kind of come here and hopes to find him.

IT hasn't worked. IT, yeah, I paid him and told them coming. Page them, no answer.

Pay again. No answer. Page, no answer. So basically we have no life. So we come down here and wait for people. Because yeah, I have the number are giving money alright I am calling the sky jeff and i'm going to make him come here because my best friend wants him to alright and it's still ringing. Hi jeff. Um we are at the golden apple and I am wondering if you're at all coming because elson kino wants to see you and i'm not going to stay around here all night because .

I have .

to sleep so hopefully i'll be nearby like to if not, call Allison tomorrow all right by and will be here i'll be here six messages on his machine at home.

I just called jack and told him that he's not here, and he just shared me. I think you will call, I just stop. No where. see.

The thing that makes us a big deal is the fact that I think he actually might like me back, which he doesn't happen ever or so. That's why I like, want to see him again. You, I know the really weird thing about us is SHE like, hates herself.

SHE never likes anyone, ever. And when I ever, anything goes right. SHE freak out. Seriously, like, you say that they're so many people that like you, but how many times has IT actually ever worked out? It's that hard for you because you just like this massive guy magnet.

You know you have sometimes like you don't see IT, you see you've gotta see because we go somewhere and it's like rush and everyone's there about you and not even just got like you're just like people like you know takes no effort just wrong. No, because it's not like I just get them like that. It's okay.

I'll give you sometimes just I don't know why, but sometimes that happens like that. And it's the fact that I talk and i'm not like boring and I don't just sit there. No, i'm not saying you're boring. I'm just saying that that's what i'm not people like I said before, our robots and they're going to want to follow the life for the party.

That's how people are if you put an idea in their head like if one person says you're a good kissing, you are team to good kisses forever and never and ever like you have this thing where like you just like radiate positive votes, you know and you are always like upbeat you know, when i've been like really outgoing or trying to be like almost imitating, you know to see if that works and doesn't work me and you know we're best friends, especially that you live with me. It's like you just always there. So the issue is always there. When you didn't live with me, you know sometimes i'm that that we're thinking about that I don't care, but now you're there all the time and you know even like going out more and it's it's always there.

IT is a one to .

twenty five almost OK. I am calling my friend marion and hopes that he is up, okay? Are you sleeping? You are.

We're just at the the restaurant and waiting for people and no one's coming. So we were wondering, do honest, to complete you up. Say us to come back here.

Just say yes. No, say yes. So don't go to sleep. Oh, cma.

and you know you love me.

Thank you. I will be there to pick you up in like two minutes, five.

So we're here.

Hi mary. I can go anywhere.

You can go anywhere.

Get the car.

My mom has .

convinced me to stay.

I go tell her that you have to come back to the rest art.

I can have to wake up at eight tomorrow morning.

Marine, i'm going to go beat you up then you, however.

there's not do such a good job convincing them with her fists. Actually, SHE doesn't try. He want. So he comes back into the car, had back to meet Allison is waiting back at the gold apple.

Okay, me an alson. I think that he feels like we're growing apart because I i've kind of been mean lightly. Not like, not like too mean, but like she's my best friend.

He will always be my best friend. It's just like now that we live together, we have constant each other. And it's just like we realized the things that we could overlook before our actual issues.

Now like we're complete office, its SHE doesn't like people I love. People SHE like staying home and reading. I can't stand staying home and I can't stand reading.

And I mean, I don't I don't like thinking. It's it's like thinking is something you to in school and then when you need to and SHE is not like that and that's that's very cool. I mean, IT shows that you know, she's not a robot, whatever, you know, but she's seventeen, she's only seventeen and SHE acts like she's twenty three.

She's, I guess, above, you know, the Normal teenager. He thinks of things SHE SHE cares, you know? And that's what people in college do you? And that's what know older people with me, and most of all my friends.

We're not ready. We're not we don't want to do that. You know, we we wanted just sit back and have fun.

I mean, SHE just needs to find the right people hang out with. And for right now, it's not my thing. This is this my thing.

I like this scene or it's just like to sit back going to have fun or in the laugh. We're just gna let everything go, you know, just like the golden apple scene. yeah.

When she's back in the restaurant, after all this, thinking about how SHE and alson so different, SHE head over to her best friend. They started to band together called next emotions. He, just two of them.

I also play guitar. They both sing, and they do one of their songs together. Now for the microphone ready.

Okay, so much face, much for love in you. So thing with so much for love, you won't believe in me so much for the time to say you never believe I needed you and that you would be there, but never see the change. And now you just don't seem to get.

It's good entire to each other in the market. Is they saying alison sitting, then you're standing, winning and close? And then the thing that they have been waiting for all night finally happened.

So, I I know i'm july。 It's a job that's why that's Billy is okay. Yeah IT is two fifteen and they have finally arrived yeah like when we given up all hope proof there here, if I told you, I knew that I never gave up that they .

also down together the I they've been waiting for where they called six times. Jeff, he never arrived. But there is another jeff with this group. Now I see transfer crush to jeff. Number two, at some point, Daniel drugs outside the dinner to confer R A stand on the sidewalk just on the other side of the plate glass window from jeff. Number two, and everybody else.

Allison reviews the facts, the case. It's just like, okay, he's into some of the supernature self to and and we have a lot of things in coming, like both big tiburtine fans. And so I know I actually had something talk to him you know about for hours now.

And but then again, it's like, what's the point of liking him if he doesn't like, mean so no, just kay here a lot. I'm trying to hook up up and OK. I was wondering, i'm trying to set out and all this slick i'll be fun for you yeah i'll give him the flower. I will be fun if he says, no, we just won't come out here ever again, please.

Whatever else you might do for alison, if you will hope deb, with somebody IT might just reduce the general level of tension between her. And then now, and denial does not take no for an answer. SHE gives the flower to jeff number two, saying, it's a, he smiles, a big number two, smile. Then he analysis IT alone at the table and talk for a while.

though I know comes over. I really leaving now because we're paid and we left tip, and I put the rest of the change in little backs here. And now we leaving research foundation.

He was fun. We got here like eleven, thirteen. And IT is now three, fifteen, and IT is time to leave, so we like tomorrow. 拜拜， 拜拜。

But before I am saturday morning thinks I finally started to die down once again, like when we arrived the day before. It's mostly cab drivers, cops.

With mild, with thousand? No.

these two police officers are sitting in a boot in front, even on a break. They are required to wear eighteen pound bullet proof. This they call over the waitress. Now they help settle .

this question. Is A T, V show really in the .

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with low flow was the red .

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a sapo and berea, yeah.

That was the .

most melt flow was the western. And Alice was the form from new york.

不好意思， i think he was Alice.

Yeah, i'm stone now. I will be able to sleep today. I find out what the name of that show was. I ask her enormous connection, and my partner offers .

a one .

thousand twenty two tonight, the nineteen district. We're in a personal, we we're allowed as many person as we want for coffee breaks, use the washing, whatever. And almost five o'clock in the morning am okay, all five hundred hours.

It's often, this district Normally is slow, but on the weekends it's like any other distract, gun calls, fights, CAD. It's real busy for two days a week and real slow for five .

with all bars are linking clar and even full up northern linking. You can go from one jab to another one fight, to fight, to fight out, to fight. But we had a bar fight over at the irish eyes.

play surgery, beer, stine in the face.

sax fin versus cups. Fine, okay, the cosby in, get in the face with a stein. And then we had another ball over at copy bear, where we made three arrest, and we just get done with all the paperwork and been two, nine hours on the paperwork. Total forest forest, first time to sit down at a cup of coffee and relies on on wine.

Just my regular hang out here, the golden hand I have two, nine, seven, one. Mike is always hanging around. And well, bab, over there. A bab, I don't. Dana mary day, the one key driver i've come here quite a bit.

Three blocks away, three guys with the gun flashed A.

T.

Their head sports this way .

they can break our personal. They want our lunch break to not supposed to one of its, I had call this one my name and .

will be benefit ably. Eight out of every ten calls. garbage. There are not another two calls now .

might be legitimate.

One thing that happens is when you get a regular partner, even some, you work for the first night in the first name, not just the way. And then where you work before, are you married? He collect hockey cards.

I collect the maxim of billie r medals. I do meter collecting. I like a couple of guitars.

I put the guitar and Young things. But you create a band. You'll even tell some intimate secrets, you know, things that even the lives are all about.

But you create a band that you want to realize IT. Ninety percent of the job is on your partner in the car. You can be a long night or can be a lot of fun.

No thing is, if you don't feel like doing anything and sunlight you don't have to, you might not get a call, chill out, drive around, you know, you just can be often a haze, and that doesn't matter.

Twenty five lake in the morning. Am, three more hours.

Yeah.

if we don't get a later rest, one night to do is back with you. They had to get the door. He was SHE guys.

No, I still GLE bybee says dona, over by the counter in nineteen thousand two.

One I see is all later.

The dance sun is coming up already.

The damp sun streaks its damn light through the curse of windows. Dona straightening ings up a little surveys the restaurant. She's the wagering that we first interviews a full day before when he brings them cookies on Christmas for everybody. SHE is the morning .

regular such tables? Well, it's now five o'clock, saturday morning, 那个 one hour and forty five minutes。 And I know I was a little tony, but I really do .

enjoy IT.

something that starts good day, like I started to feel good the day people come in. The nice smells.

the nice cloth.

You know, it's kind of war off on the night people. But the day people so fresh, it's nice, refreshing. Everybody else is getting sleepy and i'm starting to wake up because i'm a day person that's been working nice for twenty six years. But I pending IT right?

What program produce this week by july? Snyder and myself without suburb with chevy and JoNathan goldstein. Other people who took shifts recording at the golden apple include mary wooden berg, joe richmon, who recorded Daniel and Allen when the door recorded the policeman, and the two drunk women who would not go home with him time, and Scott and the lady who explained earthly time, Nancy axa was producing the ground from the corporation for public broadcasting as part of hearing voices that calm.

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