Nothing But Time
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He’s a weird old guy. Some sort of old school funny man or some shit. Charlie Chaplin of the 60’s, that’s John Crocker. He doesn’t really get your jokes, all wrapped up in layers of irony like a Dave Strider onion, but he appreciates it as a fellow comedian you fucking guess. He’s no Daddy Warbucks to your Little Orphan Annie but he buys you lunch and takes your script and hands it to the right people, typed and in a pretty envelope, and in order to take the forward payment he has to bring you to the bank to get an account.
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- Part 1 of Nothing But Time
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They have a strange relationship. You cross your arms and stand in the doorway while your father scratches his head over the broken passengers’ side window of his Buick. Dave also arrives one day having borrowed the Corvette, drenched from head to toe, and the interior growing puddles all over. While you try to form the words to demand an explanation he flicks a cigarette to your feet and trudges off with his hands in his pockets.
“I know you’re fond of him,” you tell your father after dinner, over dishes, “but he seems a bit dangerous to me. A delinquent.”
“He’s just troubled,” he says, and puts his broad hand on your shoulder. “Don’t worry so much.”
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- Part 2 of Nothing But Time