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Good time, anytime you need a payment. Good time, anytime you need a friend.

Good time, anytime you're out for Monday.

Not getting hassled, not getting hustled.

Keeping your head above water.

Making a way when you can.

Temporary layoffs. Good time, easy credit ripoffs. Good time.

We're finished with that. Finally got the storm windows in place, Michael.

Man, will you look at that snow out there?

It's like a miracle.

Now, what's so miraculous about a snowstorm?

Overnight, the neighborhood is going lily white.

Coffee's ready.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning. Good morning, husband.

It's kiss and hug time.

Mm -hmm. When isn't it?

Thank you, brother.

Hey, Michael, that's my donut.

Possession is nine -tenths of the law.

Oh, Keith, when is a dumb old donut more important than a kiss and hug from your

wife? Hey, baby, you know you don't take no backseat to a lousy jelly donut.

Why, I'd give my life for you.

Are we talking custard?

Oh, Keith.

Just join me.

Woo! Get us a coffee.

I'm gonna warm up my bones.

Well, I'm so glad it's just your bones, because Brazil does not make enough

coffee to warm the rest of us.

I tell you, Bookman, the abominable snowman.

Bookman, why are you here?

I don't think you heard me.

Bookman, why are you here?

What's the matter? You got Twinkies in your ears?

Good coffee.

The man is wearing earmuffs.

Oh, good.

Then we can insult him all day.

It ain't no good insulting Bookman if he can't hear you.

When are you going to clear the snow off the sidewalk?

Listen, I got a plan.

I got something that will clean all the snow off and make the sidewalk as clean

as a whistle.

What's it called, August?

No. You see, I put this sign out in the entrance, the door entrance, and it

said, loft on the front step, five carat diamond ring. Then watch the people

start shoveling their stones.

Good morning, Mr.

Collingswood.

Why, yes, of course.

I'll be there in 15 minutes.

Mm -hmm.

Thelma, I won't eat breakfast. I'll get a cup of coffee down at the bus yard.

Come on, Mama. You're not going to go to work today, are you?

Listen, half of the regular drivers are out with coals, so they want all the

substitute drivers they can get.

Well, Mama, why don't you tell them you have a call, too? Yeah.

Well, you know I can't do that, Thelma.

The kids I drive to school need all the education they can get, and it's my job

to get them there. Mama, I heard on the radio that they might be closing the

schools down. You tell Mr. Collingswood that.

Let me tell you something.

When all our ancestors was down there in the hot, sunny Southland, lifting those

barges and toting those bells, little did they know that 200 years later, some

of their kinfolk... would be freezing the ex -cotton -picking tails off in our

project. And I said, all that to say this, honey, whoo, child, it's cold

outside.

Time is good.

Oh, you're just the one I want to see.

I got a bone to pick with you.

I asked you to fix my thermostat, and you knocked it off the wall.

to insult him.

Oh, well, Penny is bent on going to school today. You planning on driving

bus? Sure, aren't you going to work? You know I got to go to the boutique, but I

don't know who's going to do any shopping. I don't know many Eskimos with

cards.

Let's go.

I feel like King Tut and Asana.

Mom, I wish you would change your mind.

Oh, Mom, you know I'm not going to let a little bit of snow scare me.

It never did when you all were little, and it sure won't start now.

Yeah, I know those kids will appreciate it as much as we did.

Wise guy. Have a nice day, y 'all.

Hey, Michael Thelma, did you hear that Jive radio announce in there? No, man,

what'd he say? He said, Hey, all you sleek and slinky music freaks, this is

Bearcat Bill, your very own disco dude, rapping to you.

Man, it's so cold outside. How cold is it?

Man, it's so cold outside, even the flashes are just showing pictures of

themselves.

And man, the snow is getting heavy.

So just lay back in your sack, and if you want some real delicious fat back,

save your mama for better things.

Harry's Picaril.

Guaranteed not to leave a grease ring. Your mama will thank you.

I was just trying to cheer you all up.

Yeah, well, it's not working because I'm still worried about my driving that bus

in that snow.

Tell me, it's not that bad out there. And besides, you know your mother can

handle herself in any emergency.

Yeah, but it seems like there's something we can do.

I was just thinking of that.

But seeing that we're stuck with Michael, I think we better do something

includes the three of us.

Well, how about charade?

Hmm, I'm sure glad you didn't say hide -and -go -seek, because none of the two

of y 'all, sure enough, wouldn't come looking for me.

Guarantee you that.

What if you die first?

Nothing scares me.

I'm not scared of anything.

Not even tarantulas.

What are they?

I don't know.

That's something I'm not scared of.

I think they look like that bug on your shoe.

Alex.

See you in Florida.

Maybe we should have stayed on the bus.

Well, the heat... I'd stop working there, honey. If we'd stayed there, we'd

all frozen.

At least we got room to move around in here. We won't get drowsy and fall

asleep. I'm cold.

We're gonna die of coldness next.

Hey, those buildings are boarded up. How come nobody lives there?

Well, it's an abandoned redevelopment project.

I'm hungry.

neighborhood like this.

I ain't never heard of no neighborhood where you couldn't walk to a Big Mac

place.

You can't walk anywhere.

The snow's four feet tall.

Cool. We'll have them deliver.

Can't do that.

But I'm hungry.

We're gonna die of hunger now.

Now look, kid. Just stop and think how lucky we are.

I bet they're searching for our bus right now and they know we're somewhere

nearby. We'll be home in no time flat.

We didn't stay on the regular bus route.

Well, of course I did.

Oh, no, Florida.

Remember when you told me that we were turning off the regular bus route

of the snow?

Honey.

To keep warm, let's all do a little jogging.

Say what?

Jogging? What are you, some kind of health night?

Maybe you'd like me to warm the seat of your pants, young man.

That's what I said, Miss Evans.

Let's jog.

All right. Come on, brother. That's what you got.

I'm going to give you a knuckle sandwich, man. If you want to play,

otherwise, play or get out.

Okay,

okay, okay, okay.

People, people.

Living person.

The first two words.

Come on, kids, you can't stop now.

Oh, Gordon, it's cold and we're tired.

Yeah.

Hey, a fire, that's what we need. A fire that'll give us heat and light in

case we're here after dark.

Dark? We're gonna die of darkness, man!

Nobody ever died of darkness.

There's always a first time.

Now, look, kids, we're gonna look for...

And this time, Alice, if you have any matches, don't be afraid. I won't tell

your folks. Now look for matches, everybody.

Let's face it, Miss Evans, we ain't gonna have us no fire.

Kids are going to teach me how to dance for free. All right. Okay?

Like my kids would say, let's get down.

All right? Come on.

One, two.

Y 'all know what to do. Come on, let's do it.

Let's dance.

Dance.

We can't go to sleep. Come on.

Now listen, we all gonna clap and sing so loud, they gonna hear us on Michigan

Avenue. And if the police don't find us, Motown Records will.

Come on now. Miss Evans, I'm sleepy.

We can't do that.

Why don't you just do something constructive to keep your mind off your

worrying?

Yeah, Michael, I guess you're right.

I'll go make some muffins.

Baby, please don't make no muffins.

No muffins. Why don't you just wait till the blizzard is over with, the ice thaw

out, and we can run away from it.

Oh, hey.

I should have known better than to try to get to work today.

Stranded three hours on the bus.

Only got four blocks.

reason. Not necessarily.

Sometimes it can be the warmest place in the world if you're standing next to

the right man.

Another half an hour, I might have been engaged.

But anyway, the bus stopped.

Hey, what's the matter?

I've seen half your face with your own shrunken head.

Mona. Hmm?

Something we should tell you.

Do what, honey? Well, um... Why don't you have a nice cup of coffee just in

case?

What? Coffee's nice or not? Mm -hmm. There you go. Now what is it? Well, um,

it's like this, Wilona.

Um, you tell us, Thelma.

Uh, Wilona, would you like some sugar in your coffee? Okay, sweetheart.

Okay.

Wilona, take two teas for me? No, no, one's enough.

What is it? What is it?

Well, it's really not that bad.

What do you mean it's not that bad?

Coffee? Well, Lona, we know you're a cool, calm, and totally together person.

That's right.

You're not the type to get hysterical if you hear a little bit of bad news. Oh,

okay. Now, come on, somebody. Please tell me what it is. All right, tell me.

It was just a little thing.

All right, tell me.

Penny and Ma lost in the blizzard.

Lona, now, just stay calm, all right?

Lona. I'm cool.

Yeah, okay

a little help down here.

Nothing fancy. No frills.

Strictly economy class.

But, Lord, I want you to help me get these nice little kids home to their

beds.

Now, Lord, I know you work in strange and mysterious ways.

No, stupid.

He's either Ernest or Julio.

My name is Donald, and you've been disturbing my beauty rest all day.

What are you doing here?

Oh, I should ask you what you're doing in my townhouse.

The school bus got stuck in the snow.

Man, I'm freezing.

Your place sure is cold.

Now when you carry your own antifreeze... Oh, beg your pardon.

Pardon my ill... man itself have some we're not quite ready for that well

i am

you

got a match match don't you

know what the surgeon general

That's the worst smokers cough I've ever heard.

Yeah.

And just imagine if I smoked.

We don't want to smoke. We want to build a...

Now, little kids, there are only two matches here, so let's gather up all the

wood you can.

Hurry.