Odyssey Of A Dropout (1966)

walking I do lots of that I'm in no hurry time is all I got I mean it's the same thing every day the library the park the pool hall down to school it's like a circuit really books now are something dropouts can do without me well my girlfriend Laura she keeps me coming here not that I don't like a few books science fiction Sports drag racing in school well it was textbooks all the time and well who wouldn't gag on that stuff parks are something I don't mind either on weekday afternoons it's just you the trees and some old folks I suppose what I like about a park is that you can think here you know about yourself and how you happen to be the way you are I don't like being a Dropout you're too much at the mercy of things no car no job no future really maybe though guys my age aren't supposed to have a future yet hi Scot grab a CU what do you say I come on Partner let's make one for a change bad [Music] [Music] chance that's what we need tomorrow's world today give me that easy yeah yeah okay let's go [Music] [Applause] he [Applause] cops [Applause] [Music] [Applause] cops [Music] sh [Music] oh there you those real friendly guys yeah Big T badge it's a funny place school I mean inside it's one dll hour after another dll books doll things to do only the kids make it worthwhile kids and something else maybe the thought that you were helping yourself along [Music] yeah sometimes Laura and I well we run up to see Mr gimi he's a history teacher on the second floor now he and I well we used to get along boy he could really make the time spin by for maybe I should have hung on a little longer there are worse things than being caged in a classroom I guess I found it out the hard way for for for for [Music] a [Music] but I said I can eat here Mom I'll be sure and have you a separate tomorrow evening sure Mom I didn't know the meeting was tonight really SC okay okay be sure and get home early now goodbye [Music] goodbye boy when you end up with just a mother you can have problems yeah you can what are you going to eat give me the special anything to drink uh yeah a cup of [Music] coffee have you ever realized how much of a man's day is tied up with someday you'll learn to appreciate us [Music] [Music] maybe been looking for work lately not much wouldn't do any good shining shoes you had to try a little harder maybe I don't know I get tired of being asked why I'm not in school think I'd shot my grandmother or something why do people have to pin labels on you doesn't make any sense really I mean I'm no criminal I wonder what it's like to have a future I wouldn't know Scott I sure wouldn't to all of us people without a [Music] [Applause] [Music] future [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] be tears for old arm behind [Music] give [Music] [Applause] what do you want to refill no here I'll take it I just wanted to use your phone go right ahead where is everybody tonight there'll be a bunch here after the show hello hi were you asleep no just reading a little oh you do anything tonight no you go out with the guys yeah for a little while I thought you were going to start reading more at night all working no playm Scott a doll boy you know yeah like no work makes Scott a doll boy too huh yeah who's that Scott no no just a friend dad I suppose I could get a job you could try could always find a job pumping gas some place it'd be a start anyway and we've got to start somewhere yeah that'd be my future too full of gas I wish you wouldn't feel that way what about school have you thought about going back lately yeah um except that well I've never been any good at school and a guy doesn't like to do something that he's not good at I know that but you've got your future to think about yeah there's always my future I don't know what all wrong I mean I feel so useless at times it's like I wasn't even alive I guess what I'm saying is that a guy my age needs a future a job that would make him feel like something and not some animal Scott it isn't too late you can still go back to school I told you I didn't want you talking to that TR but I anything wrong wrong no nothing but yeah what are you supposed to do about what oh about nothing I guess I don't know it doesn't make much sense about me I mean it's like being in a dead end somewhere maybe I'm wrong but I keep telling myself that I've got to mean something nothing big just mean something otherwise it all adds up to nothing I couldn't live with that good [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] night [Music]