[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
NIGEL: When Brian drops me off, I feel like a schlup.
If I pull up in a car on my own, I'll feel good about myself.
I'm not talking like a new car or anything, just a used car.
2004, maybe, with power locks and windows.
Yeah.
Why don't-- why don't you get a car, then?
I can't.
My credit's shit.
I saw a movie about a man who got his driver's license taken
away 'cause he was so old.
But then, uh, his brother got sick,
so he actually drove across the country on a John
Deere lawnmower to see him.
Why don't you do that?
[EXHALES] They made a whole movie about that?
An oriole.
[CHIRPING]
Hey, Nigel.
Yeah?
You ever tried putting an Altoid in a glass of hot water?
NIGEL: Uh, no.
Um, I did it the other day.
I thought it might help my sore throat, but it didn't.
It was just a glass of water that tasted like Altoids.
[BIRD TWEETING]
NIGEL: I used to get this way where
I would-- when I had too many beers,
I just wanted to go to bed.
And I also just wanted to get the rest of the energy out.
When I was at a party and I had too many beers,
I would just leave and run the whole way home.
You've never done that?
No.
[BIRD TWEETING]
Do you remember the specific moment that--
that mortality occurred to you?
NIGEL: Uh, I don't know.
I don't think so.
ESTER: Do you remember when Tom Stoley and Brian Brice,
these senior lacrosse players, drove into a tree
'cause they were drinking and driving?
Yeah.
ESTER: Well, those guys were the biggest and strongest of us.
And I realized that if they could end up in wheelchairs,
I mean, that's it for me.
[EXHALES]
Oh, you know what?
I do remember the first time I thought about mortality.
Remember that afternoon when mom let us stay after school
and play on the playground?
Yeah.
NIGEL: And the sun was kind of going down.
I looked over at you, and you were having fun.
And I looked over at mom, who was playing with Helen.
And I realized, she's going to be at school with us
eventually, but maybe not for too long 'cause then
we'd be going to middle school and high school
and get older and so on.
And I looked over at mom and realized
that she's going to get older as well, and so on and so forth,
and that eventually we'd all pass away.
[OWL HOOTING]
Well, I ran into Ellen O'Neal the other day,
and she was telling me that they tore down that playground just
a few years ago because the wood was,
uh, weather-treated with chromated copper arsenate.
Isn't that kind of crazy, though?
What?
That that specific realization happened to me while we were
playing on that playground.
[EXHALES]
ESTER: Look.
It's Apus, the big bird in the sky.
NIGEL: Yeah, that's good.
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]