Through some sort of an accident, my company's short in their accounts.
You're not! You're the biggest man in town! He's not a failure! You can't say that about my father! Oh, I suppose I should give it to miserable failures like you and that idiot brother of yours to spend for me! You can't begin to spend all the money you've got. Potter, what makes you such a hard-skulled character? You have no family, no children. Potter.Īre you running a business or a charity ward? Not with my money! These families have children.īut they're somebody's children, Mr. Have you put any real pressure on these people of yours to pay those mortgages? There they are! Bert, what do you know about that! Merry Christmas! Ha, ha, ha, ha! My mouth's bleeding, Bert! My mouth's bleeding! Zuzu's petals. I saw your car plowed into that tree down there and I thought maybe you - hey, your mouth's bleeding. You kiddin'? I've been looking all over town trying to find you. What the sam hill you yellin' for, George? Now get outta here, Bert, or I'll hit you again! Get outta here! Hey, George! George! You all right? Hey, what's the matter? About time one of you lunkheads said it.Ĭlarence! Clarence! Help me, Clarence! Get me back! Get me back, I don't care what happens to me! Get me back to my wife and kids! Help me Clarence, please! Please! I wanna live again. Pop, you want a shock? I think you're a great guy. This town is no place for any man unless he's willing to crawl to Potter. I just feel like if I don't get away, I'd bust. Most of my friends have already finished college. But I've been hoarding pennies like a miser in order to. It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace, and we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office. You know, George, I feel that in a small way we are doing something important.
I want to do something big and something important.
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Oh, I'm sorry Pop, I didn't mean that, but this business of nickels and dimes and spending all your life trying to figure out how to save three cents on a length of pipe. I couldn't face being cooped up for the rest of my life in a shabby little office. Do I paint the correct picture or do I exaggerate? Yes, sir, trapped into this small town and frittering his life away, playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic eaters. A young man who has to sit by and watch his friends go places because he's trapped. A young man who's been dying to get out of this small town and on his own ever since he was born. He is an intelligent, smart, ambitious, young man who hates his job, who hates the Building and Loan almost as much as I do. But George Bailey is not a common, ordinary yokel. Now, if this young man of 28 was a common, ordinary yokel, I'd say he was doing fine. A child or two comes along and you won't even be able to save the ten. Out of which, after supporting your mother and paying your bills, you're able to keep, say, ten, if you skimp. , married, making, say, $40 a week.įorty-five. Yes, well, most people say you stole all the rest. You saved the Building and Loan, I saved all the rest. You and I were the only ones that kept our heads. Now take during the Depression, for instance. In fact, you have beaten me, George, and as anyone in this county can tell you, that takes some doing. You know, also, that for a number of years I've been trying to get control of it. You know just as well as I do that I run practically everything in this town but the Bailey Building and Loan. But I don't like them either, so that makes it all even. George, I am an old man and most people hate me. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be! But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about. Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr.
Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they. what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry away to college, let alone me. why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. You're right when you say my father was no businessman.
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