"Cringe"

Jerr is talking to the person sitting next to him at the airport. Shelly is listening, but also trying to get out of this conversation.

Jerr: The last girlfriend I had (pauses) well she was quite hot. We were totally on again off again. She had a phrase that she would use constantly with me. What was it she said…Hmmm...I’ll remember when I least expect it! 

Jerr pauses. Shelly is able to start reading again, almost.

Jerr: “Lover come hold me!” I knew I would remember.

Shelly: (annoyed) How “could you forget?”

Jerr: It’s easy to forget when you’ve lived life like me. On edge. No regrets. “I got a secret” that no one will ever know. It makes it exhilarating. 

Shelly: I knew a guy who was an assassin. Well retired assassin. Not as glamorous as one might think.

Jerr: I was the one “digging a ditch” after an assassin made the kill and needed to bury the body. That’s part of the reason Loretta left me. “She said” she couldn’t be with me while I was doing this. That it wasn’t going to work when “I’m looking like a bad man.”

Shelly: Oh yeah, I bet you were a real “smooth criminal.”

Jerr: She and I didn’t have the same adventurous spirit. “She said” she was always worried about me when I went out of town. We’d get into really big fights over it. At some point her “spirit [didn’t] move like it did before.” I had to respect that and well I tried one more time. “She said” that she’d try once more, but I had to bring it down a level. I tried really hard to do that, but I can’t change. Who was she kidding? So she tried changing, but then figured out that wasn’t going to happen. 

Shelly: I’m going to just read my book now.

Jerr: My friends have told me that “I don’t look like me no more” and I have to think it’s because Loretta is gone. Out and done from my life. 

Shelly: (too loudly) “I said I'm just tired!” (a little quieter) We’re done here? I don’t care about Loretta or your fake dangerous life. “She said” this and she said that. Who cares? Why would you tell a stranger this much of your life? What is it? “You’re just high” or something?

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