Act Ii - Lindsey

Um Well, that's kind of a hard thing to go into. It's just everything, you know, rolled up into one thing. I mean they just Well, I hate this is so cliche, but uh they don't understand me. >> Now, there just seems to be some sort of a problem uh in choosing friends. Um I I just don't know where she I mean, her taste. Um that she doesn't take after me. >> They definitely have a problem about communication. >> I insisted that she go to to school with other children of different backgrounds. >> You see, that's the problem there. I wanted her to go to a private school, and I had chosen the school, and he disagreed. He said that she must learn to mingle with everybody, and I I really frankly think that that's one of the problems. She's mingling with everybody. >> I have faith and trust in my daughter's good judgment. >> enough, though, at the moment. Excuse me. >> Um into the whole topic of um sex in my house is just out of the question. I mean, it's there's no such a thing. Human beings do not have sex in my house. >> I think when we were young, we all played little games with each other, and and we all played kissing games and things at school, that's experimenting with sex, isn't it? >> She broke up with her boyfriend. >> Yeah, everything is fine. >> And what did you do that she got upset? >> Well, like I just want to know, you know, you know, she comes to us with stories day in and day out. So, I think it's probably >> Do you still see her? >> Yeah, off and on. >> Lindsay, do you want to talk to me about something? No. Lindsay. >> Mhm. >> It's 10:00. >> Mhm. >> Watch the toothpaste on your new carpet. >> Mhm. >> Goodnight. >> Goodnight. >> Lindsay. How can you stand to look at yourself? I mean, do you look at yourself in the mirror? You look like a slob. >> I look fine. >> You look miserable. Please go in the house and change. >> I'm not going in the house. >> like you slept in them. >> Do you hear me, Lindsay? Would you please go in and change? >> But that's >> Let's forget it now. Please go in and change. >> No, I don't want to change. Look, I've got to go. We'll discuss it later. >> We are going to discuss it later. Lindsay, are you listening to me? We will discuss it later. Do you hear me? Lindsay, are you listening? I'll see you tonight. >> How are you doing on your test, Lindsay? >> Fine. >> You're wrong. $84 to fix this garbage disposal. That That's criminal. I I think the man should be investigated. [clears throat] I don't I don't this bill at all. >> Lindsay, you know do you want to hear the whole part of the truth about your >> Imagine charging me for batteries. >> exams. Actually, the um >> I just couldn't feel all about the batteries. >> Oh, yes. Actually, Lindsay's marks in her school is the least of her problems at the moment. She seems not to not to care in the least about it. >> I just couldn't feel all about the batteries. You're Laura. Excuse me. >> She's lovely in your eyes, but I'm sorry, I don't think you're paying attention to some of the things that I think she's going through. I believe we should have a little discussion. Uh all three of us, isn't that right, Lindsay? Lindsay, are you listening? >> No, Laura. >> Lindsay, are you going to tell me what you thought of >> I think we should discuss it. After dinner. >> Or perhaps after dinner might be better. >> about this bill. >> I know you are, but I think that bill can wait in your future. We can discuss it after dinner. >> garbage disposal for that kind of money. >> I think >> I could have put it in myself. >> Uh at the moment, I don't think you realize the gravity of this situation. And that her Now, Lindsay >> there is a problem, >> There is definitely a problem, Laura. >> After dinner. >> I would like to discuss it. >> of the child. >> Uh in This This has been the problem I'm trying to explain. That it's it's it's a it's a problem which we should all discuss out in the open. Our daughter is having a problem. >> She's dating fellows and getting into things that we as parents should be concerned with. And I think that you as a parent are not taking enough responsibility. >> And I think, Laura, that you're blowing things way out of proportion, as you always do. >> Lindsay! Clifford, would you please go in and get her and bring her back to the stand table? >> Well, young lady, what seems to be the problem? Your mother's very upset. Let's see, what is it? >> I don't know. >> Why did you leave the table? >> I don't know. >> I she'd like you to come back. Would you, please? >> No. >> There must be something bothering you. Certainly something bothering your mother. >> There really isn't anything bothering me. >> What's bothering your mother? >> I have no idea. >> Lindsay, there must be something you have to say. >> Not a thing. >> If there's anything I can do to help, I certainly want to. I didn't know that there was anything bothering you or your mother. Come back to the table, Lindsay. Let's talk about it. Hm? >> I really don't want to, Pop. I'm sorry. >> I would like you to come back, Lindsay. >> Lindsay, do you know what time it is? >> 7:55. >> [music] >> Where did you go, Lindsay? You know you can't stay after school like that. Look, Lindsay, this is the second day that you've stayed after school. You keep looking at me very directly in the eyes. Now, I'm sitting here with you, and I'm available to you if there's something you want to tell me. Or ask me. >> There's really nothing. >> You just want to hang out around here? Is that it? >> Um yeah. >> Well, I'm not in love with this building, and I'm very eager to go home. So, I'll give you a few more minutes, and if there's anything you want to say, please. >> Well, I really have nothing to say. >> I am concerned about you. >> Well, I don't know why. There's uh really nothing to be concerned about. >> Okay. Okay. >> Excuse me. Marla, will you get the phone? >> Back in Black Mountain. >> I had my wisdom teeth pulled a year ago. It was nothing. When you first get shot, it feels like a baseball bat hits you, and it feels like all your muscles just relax all at once, you know? Like it just goes shh. And then then you they tell you to count, right? You can count backwards or something, and I can't do that, so I counted forwards. Yes. And they stick this big rubber awful thing in your mouth, and I kept trying to tell the lady how groovy she was making me feel, you know, hey, this feels all right. But she wasn't having any of it, and then I went to sleep, and I was completely out of it, and it felt so great. You're just kind of zonked out for a couple days, and you bleed a lot. Speaking of >> [laughter] >> I think I think we ought to split now. >> Okay. Go ahead. Bye. >> Where have you been so late after school? >> Uh out. >> Out? Out with whom? You were out with that boy. >> Friends. >> What friends? Now look, Lindsay, I would like to have a talk with you, calmly settled. I would like to have a very long talk. We haven't discussed things in a long time. Now, would you come in here and we'll talk? >> Look, there's really nothing to talk >> There is an awful lot to talk about, young lady. >> I don't think there's anything to talk >> Who were you out with? >> I told YOU >> WERE YOU OUT with Jim? Were you? But I don't like your friends, him especially. Now I I I'd like to discuss some things with you. >> There is nothing to discuss. >> You've been having a relationship with that boy, and I don't like it. Do you understand? And I want to discuss it. You don't KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTO. >> LOOK, I really don't want to discuss this with >> Look, LISTEN. >> I REALLY DON'T. >> SEX IS A BIG RESPONSIBILITY, young lady, and you're not going to BED UNTIL WE DISCUSS THIS. DO YOU HEAR ME? NOW, I'M YOUR MOTHER. NOW, WOULD YOU COME IN THERE? I I DON'T want to shout and lose my temper with you like I've just done now. Please. >> I don't want to discuss now. I really want to go >> A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SHE'S DOING. LINDSAY? LINDSAY! >> It's just It's just It's It's ridiculous in my house. I mean, you know, you you go by a book of rules. And if you don't follow those rules, um >> If she's in a little difficulty now, I think that she has enough good sense background straighten out. >> I I think it's just a phase at the moment. I think all parents must be going through a phase like this. It's nothing really to be concerned about, you know. >> [music] >> The problem we've got is that most of us are asleep. Our eyes are open, but we're not seeing very well. And we're actually sleepwalking in a way that is like we have no control over what's happening. We're not there. We don't understand it. And even if our eyes are open, what's usually happening is that we're seeing an event, but that event means something entirely different to every person who sees that event. You see me standing here and you know I'm here and I see you sitting there. And that's all we can all agree upon. And then there's another level of reality and that's what what's really happening be- besides what we can see. And that's what's going on in our hearts and in our heads. And that's the stuff that people have stopped checking out. And they've got to start we've got to start trying to make our reality much more dimensional, much realer. Not just what we see. Not just what we can all check out, but what is happening in that particular event. And that takes a certain amount of