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Can I help you? I want to take a steam bath and... It'll be $3 .50.

I thought it was only two.

It's weekend, Friday.

It's always $3 .50 on weekends.

Here's the key. Thanks.

I heard you forgot your towel and robe and slippers.

Oh, thanks.

Say, is there a... Place around here where I could get a cup of coffee to

with me? Yeah, right over there, on the right. You can't take any drinks up to

room.

Oh, well, thanks anyway.

Is that the valuables you want to check? Anything over five bucks?

Why's that?

Well, you can't trust your own mother these days. How are you going to trust a

recent acquaintance?

Oh, I see what you mean.

I guess I'll leave my ring in my wallet.

He doesn't have enough muscle for me.

I'm looking for a nice dark Greek number tonight.

You can go on in humbling, I'm tipping off.

I guess he's got someone in here, huh?

Nope, she's just laying there, alone.

Is this your first time here, sweetie?

No, I've been here before.

Well, you know, you have to leave your door open a bit wider if you want to get

a trip.

Hey,

I'll fix it for you.

No, you get the credit.

Come on.

Bye.

Are you alone in there?

Yeah.

That's why my door was open.

Mind if I come in?

This is my first time here at the bath.

Quite a lot of exciting going on out there.

Well, it's Friday night.

It's always busy on the weekend.

I've never taken a bath before.

I mean, being a... It's very refreshing and very healthy.

Find it refreshing?

Oh, yes.

Very.

You sound as though you don't. Don't what?

Find it refreshing.

It's just that I've been here so many times, I'm used to it.

It's just like bathing at home.

But I guess it is rather refreshing.

Hey, buddy.

Think about pulling a battle down a bit. Getting to hang out. Oh, sure. I didn't

even know you.

It doesn't remember.

I'm here a lot.

Oh, sure.

At least four times a week.

This is my first time here. You said that before.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I have a tendency to repeat myself when I get nervous.

Why are you so nervous?

Because this is my first time here.

I don't know what to do.

But here.

Have a cigarette.

Oh, no, thank you. I don't smoke.

I never did care for the taste of the smoke.

I find it very unwholesome.

For me, that is.

But I never did care for the taste of it.

If you do go in and smoke, I don't care about looking at the smoke.

Are you comfortable in that chair?

It's not too bad.

There's just a few crying on me.

Well, don't work too hard.

Yeah, take it easy.

Will you tell me something?

What are you supposed to do?

I don't understand what you mean.

What I mean is, how are you supposed to get to know somebody?

I mean, I went to the shower room, I went to the steam room, and everyone was

running around so much they didn't even notice me.

It's nothing. You just go to your room and you lie down in bed.

Oh, look at those two. They seem like a couple of little nays. This is no place

to check, girls. You can do the pen dance with that.

Well, what was I saying?

Oh, yeah, you go to your room and you get into bed.

You have to leave the door open, though.

Or the...

That's very important. They'll think you're busy.

I didn't know it was that simple.

Oh, there's nothing too late. I hope I'm not talking too sound in the interest

of you. No, not necessarily yet.

We're going.

Would you like some coffee?

There's a restaurant downstairs.

I can go right down and bring it up.

They don't allow you to bring anything up to the room.

All right, I'll sneak it up somehow.

Okay?

Okay. I guess so.

I'll be right back.

want to dish with him.

You're so beautiful, Jim.

May I touch it?

Please don't.

All right.

Well, my friend will be right back.

You're just tripping up and down all night.

Getting there, aren't you?

This is my time.

Mr. Rick.

I'm sorry I couldn't sneak any coffee

up because they only serve it in glass cups, but I packed this pop machine in

the hallway. I hadn't noticed it before.

Hold this for now.

Which would you rather have?

7 -Up or Coke? Doesn't really matter.

Well, okay, I'll put it on my back and you pick one.

All right, take it.

Left arm gets to 7 -Up.

Thanks.

Hope you like it.

That's the way it sparkles, isn't it?

I remember when I was young, I used to hold a bottle right under my nose and

the bubbles tickle me.

You know, I don't even know your name.

My name is Mr. Jack.

Well, mine is Thomas.

Thomas. It's a beautiful name, Thomas.

I have a strange feeling that someone's staring at us.

Staring at us? There's no one here.

Someone's under the bed. I have the strangest feeling, even when you were

the room, that someone was staring at us.

I just can sense that when someone's looking at me. I always could.

There's a hole here with an eye in it.

Oh.

I'll be glad.

sense when someone's looking at me. Did you see that queen that just went by?

My dear, she was at that drag ball last week, and I tell you, a gold lame

jumpsuit, six -inch mules, and earrings down to her shoulders. What? A queen's

wearing an uproar.

God, she'd like to pluck my nerves.

Good job.

Oh, listen, I'll see you later, Taffy. I'm tipping. Did you see that number

just went by?

I've decided I don't like this place at all.

It's like a hell for men.

An insane asylum for mad homosexuals. I don't belong here.

Some of those boys were giggling and whispering about me in the hallway.

Whatever possessed you to come then?

Oh, I heard so much about the bats.

They're famous, you know.

They seem to be quite famous.

And an awful lot of people count them.

Because of that?

Yes, I suppose so.

No. I came to get away from my wife.

A long night vacation away from my wife.

I came to see what they were like.

I heard it was an adventure.

Every time.

I thought you said you came here four times a week.

I did, didn't I?

Well, I was lying to you.

This is my first time here.

And the first time I've ever taken a steam bath.

Except once, when I was little. I took one in my grandmother's bathroom.

Yeah? How did you do that? I turned on my hot water in the shower full blast. I

closed the window.

In a few minutes, the room was full of steam.

It wasn't quite as effective as the ones here, though.

Hey,

Kathy, come here. I just came down from three, honey, and I was wrecked.

Well, this Trick and I, we were making it.

And then my hands were going in every direction.

And then I heard a clunk.

Well, he popped out of bed and switched on that light.

And then there was a pair of false teeth lying on the floor.

Can you believe that, Miss Thing? I must have knocked his giddy teeth right out

of his mouth.

Here comes the floor, Miss Thing. It's too cold.

Nice vacation away from home.

That's all.

Couldn't stand it anymore.

Sitting at home doing nothing.

I needed something different.

Watching television.

Getting up for work, going to sleep, watching television.

That's all I've been doing now for years.

I needed a vacation. I haven't had one in two years.

It's more than I haven't taken one before.

Don't you have any friends to go out with?

Not anymore.

This ain't gonna be my life anymore.

That doesn't matter.

Did you ever try to make love to a woman with curlers, metal curlers,

wrapped all over her head?

And cold cream stopped all over her face?

I can't imagine myself even attempting it.

Good for you.

full of lard.

In the morning, she pours my coffee. She has a perfect line right across her

card. She puts that hair on. That hair that I'm so goddamn tight.

I can't even get my finger under it.

Then, when I come home from work, she's off to the club meetings, and she leaves

my dinner nicely wrapped in cellophane paper.

She comes home at night.

Starts putting her new roses, sobbing on the line. The same routine now for more

than 19 years.

It doesn't sound very exciting.

Why do you want to get out of being married all those years when you have no

communication?

When you don't give one another something?

Well, she used to give me something. Something beautiful.

But that's all gone now.

Did you say you were tipping on down to one or three?

Yeah, well, I thought I'd see who's on the block.

Yeah, well, I think I'll go with you on sales for the night.

Oh, honey, did you catch that one? It's enough to make a girl drop her feet.

Oh, well, I'll see you later, Miss Bell.

You're a

pretty feet, Thomas.

I always like wool -shaped feet.

You mind if I do something?

Yes, sir.

And this little piggy went home.

And this little piggy had roast beef.

And this little piggy had none.

And this little piggy

This boy I met once had two toes stuck together on each foot.

And I couldn't make love with him.

I just couldn't.

My wife Isabella has the ugliest feet I've ever seen in my entire life.

Corns and bunions all over them.

And her toes kind of curl under.

She's always squeezing her feet into shoes a size smaller than her own.

She's so vain. She doesn't want anyone to know that she's got big feet.

She's always complaining about them, but she won't put them in her own proper

size.

That night, she wriggles her toes on me. I can feel her corns and bunions

touching me.

to bed sometimes and wait until she falls asleep.

Good feet are important.

I think well -shaped feet are very sensual.

They excite me an awful lot.

I can get very engrossed with them.

I've never had the nerve to tell Isabella how I hate her feet.

She'd probably cry if I did.

But I wish the hell if she stopped touching me with them.

started walking toward me and over me, up and down, over my body, over my face.

The toes were trying to get into my mouth.

I had to sleep on the couch for a month after that.

I had this other dream once.

She locked me in the bathroom and started throwing these solid balls of

me.

Every time they hit me, they'd splash all over me.

I was covered with blood by the end of the dream.

I wonder what that means.

Dreams are quite fascinating.

They have very deep meanings.

I have a book at home that tells all about them in detail.

Isabella sometimes leaves her sanitary pads on the sink.

I end up throwing them out.

It might have something to do with that.

Hmm, that is a most disgusting habit.

I don't know how a woman can forget to dispose of those things.

I used to work in this restaurant.

And part of my job was to clean out the johns.

Well, these women would leave those things all over the place.

Some of them even flushed them down the toilets.

Stuff the toilets up with them and the water would be all over.

I'd have to take this long pole -like thing and pull them out.

It really used to make me sick.

Well, I finally quit working there.

What's happening?

All right, honey.

You can mount me one, too.

Just like any time.

It's really together, girl.

I know.

May I touch your face, Thomas?

I just want to put my hand on your skin.

asking.

A year ago today, he died.

He was on the high school football team and they were touring the southern

states.

He played one of them.

Alabama.

Just one.

He wanted to be a famous football star someday.

He had lots of hopes.

And he was good, extremely good.

His body was strong and healthy. It could take the hard work and training it

takes to make a top football star and play in one of the big leagues.

Handsome.

Was he ever handsome.

We all used to call him to make dates. He was so good looking.

One of the most fantastic things about his beauty.

How's his skin?

It was so soft.

When Billy was a little boy, we had to be so careful about what he ate.

Otherwise he'd break out and rise his own over his body.

He didn't look anything like Isidoro and me.

People used to joke about that.

They used to say Isidoro had a secret admire somewhere that nobody knew about.

He went swimming in this lake one afternoon with two of his buddies.

Well, he died, didn't hurt.

His only second photo, they realized he hadn't come up.

They said it was like a big vacuum had sucked him under.

They panicked and started striving for help.

afternoon he drained the lake.

They found thousands of snakes coiled around each other

and Billy.

Their friends themselves didn't matter for them.

He had him brought back home for the funeral.

There were more than 200 people there.

The football team he played with, his teachers and friends.

They all sent him flowers.

Millions of dead flowers.

I had them all burned.

And they were like lilies and wreaths and flowers marked with death.

He had one flower.

We've got to tip on down to the tea room before we go to one and three. I've got

a problem with my nose.

Oh, I didn't bring my bag with me.

Oh, that's all right. I've got some gay fosh with me.

Oh, but you always use that blushing pink.

Well, tip on down and get your own then.

He looked as though he died on stage in a play.

With all that hasty makeup they put on his face.

They stuck so much cotton in his face.

His face looked...

You're right, Mr. Davy.

It is like an insane asylum here.

You still need to hop some on the end of that and buy the name in the future.

You have the assets to deliver this gay package to you.

Well, hurry up. Open it. Well, come on. Open it up. Open the gay box. Help!

Ah, I thought it might be gay jewelry for a queen.

Honey, if something gave me a flower like that, I'd sit on it.

on the track.

Mr.

Stink.

This little piggy cried, wee, wee, wee, all the way home.

I'm sorry?

Did you say something?

No, nothing.

No.

Yes, I did.