CORY

The problem, as I see it? Is other people. Hard enough to figure out what the hell you're doing with your life by yourself but you get yourself attached to someone — some girlfriend or somesuch — and then the next thing you know you got to think about them all the time and you can't just be, you know? You wake up one morning and all of a sudden you can't just go down and shoot some hoops or — what? — just fuckin' sitting around beating off to porn. Yeah, you're laughing but you know it's true — I see the way you look at Trudy, looking for, uh, approval or permission. Probably the same way you look at her when you want to get some. [laughs] Admit it, buddy, you are fucking bought and paid for. You can run as fast as you can as far as you can but you've got Trudy and Tricia — don't get me wrong, Trish is a fucking angel and I would give my life for her and I'm just some guy she hardly remembers — but the point is, what I'm saying is that you are settled, amigo and you aren't your own man no more. You are part and parcel of this group and it affects your brain. You tell me you feel like you have two seconds to rub a couple brain cells together to think about something other than what you got to do for them. You tell me that you don't wonder if you missed your chance. You tell me that and then tell me you don't want to do this thing with me.