The Wayward Bus (1957)

Rick Jason: Johnny Chicoy

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• Alice Chicoy : You're too good lookin' to be off by yourself without me.

  Johnny Chicoy : Just remember, nothing ever happens on a 50-mile bus ride to be jealous of. Miss me?

  Alice Chicoy : Yes. I married you to be with you. Because I couldn't take my eyes off of you. I still can't, Johnny. I'd die if you ever walked out on me.

  Johnny Chicoy : Matter of fact, you wouldn't die. You'd go lookin' for somebody else to pump gas and fill the cigar butts of yours with more money.

• Mildred Pritchard : Who is that?

  Johnny Chicoy : What?

  Mildred Pritchard : The medallion.

  Johnny Chicoy : It's the virgin. Virgin of Guadalupe.

  Mildred Pritchard : What does she do?

  Johnny Chicoy : When you ain't sure about somethin', you ask her.

  Mildred Pritchard : And then she tells you?

  Johnny Chicoy : Then you tell yourself.

  Mildred Pritchard : You're Mexican?

  Johnny Chicoy : Half and half. My mother was Irish.

  Mildred Pritchard : Handsome people, both sides. No wonder you're not so bad looking.

• Elliott Pritchard : Driver, are we on schedule?

  Van Brunt : [Sarcastically]  Schedule? Hmph.

  Johnny Chicoy : Mister, this ain't the champagne flight to Chicago.

  Van Brunt : You know where that wind's coming from? Southwest. You know those clouds are coming from? Southwest. You know where all our rain comes from mostly.

  Ernest Horton : Northeast?

  Van Brunt : Yes. No! Southwest.

  Johnny Chicoy : Hey, why don't you take your own advice and shut up for a while, huh?.

  Van Brunt : I wasn't talkin' to you, Chicoy. I was addressin' my fellow passengers. I got the right. I paid my fare!

• Mildred Pritchard : [Coming on to the bus driver]  You've been driving this bus long?

  Johnny Chicoy : Since you were in fifth grade anyway.

  Mildred Pritchard : I skipped the fifth grade. I was smart.

• Ed 'Pimples' Carson : [as Johnny is fixing his old bus named Sweetheart]  If you're aimin' to sell Sweetheart, there ain't much sense putting a whole lot of work back into it.

  Johnny Chicoy : You never did own a horse, did you... animal of any kind?

  Ed 'Pimples' Carson : Oh, that's different. Animals got feelings.

  Johnny Chicoy : They're both. You drive a bus ten years. It's got feelings too.

• Ed 'Pimples' Carson : Mr. Chicoy, could you fix it... I mean, could you fix it so you don't call me Pimples, anymore?

  Johnny Chicoy : What's your name? First name?

  Ed 'Pimples' Carson : Ed . Ed Carson. When my old man was alive, he always told me I was a distant cousin to Kit Carson.

  Johnny Chicoy : That's so?

  Ed 'Pimples' Carson : Before I got all these pimples in grammar school, they use to call me Kit.

• Alice Chicoy : [On the phone]  Say, when are you comin' back anyway?

  Johnny Chicoy : Well, that's what I was calling about. There was a landslide and the road is closed and I was... we was just...

  Alice Chicoy : [Angrily]  Now I get it.

  Johnny Chicoy : What do you mean?

  Alice Chicoy : I mean all of a sudden the road is closed and you've got no place to go except back to mama.

  Johnny Chicoy : Honey, that ain't it.

  Alice Chicoy : You gotta come back anyways so you make it sound like a pretty good deal. You're sorry, I'm sorry, and all those dames are sorry, and Norma's sorry.

  Johnny Chicoy : I called you because I wanted to see ya and I was glad I was gonna see ya. And if you wasn't so drunk, you'd know that was the truth.

  Alice Chicoy : Poor Johnny. Trying to get away and couldn't make it. Now you can't even cry on a blonde's shoulder.

• Johnny Chicoy : [On the phone]  Look, I hadn't oughta left like that. I was too rough on you. I'm sorry, honey.

  Alice Chicoy : Well, you know, Johnny. Sometimes we do things out of love that doesn't seem like love at all. You know what I mean? It's all right. I love you even when you act like a stinker. Even when I act like a stinker and that takes some doing. So you just turn the old bus around and come back double quick.

• Johnny Chicoy : You're a lonely girl, aren't you?

  Mildred Pritchard : What makes you say that?

  Johnny Chicoy : I've got eyes on the back of my neck.

• Johnny Chicoy : What do you want?

  Mildred Pritchard : I don't know. I guess right this second just to be here with you. Aren't you going to make a pass at me? You'll only laugh at me anyway so why bother?

  Johnny Chicoy : I'll bother when you get through arguing with yourself.

  Mildred Pritchard : Will you laugh at me?

  Johnny Chicoy : Do you care?

  Mildred Pritchard : I do very much. I talk too much. I'll bet right this second you're probably saying to yourself, 'why doesn't she just stop talking.'

  Johnny Chicoy : Why don't you?

• Johnny Chicoy : [after the bus avoids a crash and comes to a stand still]  Sorry folks.

  Van Brunt : Sorry? By the purist luck we didn't turn turtle!

  Ernest Horton : He coulda killed all of us.

  Van Brunt : I had you figured for a better man.

  Ernest Horton : A better driver anyway. Awful.

  Ed 'Pimples' Carson : He did real good, mister. I'd like to see you drive that good with water in the brake drum.

  Van Brunt : Why didn't he get 'em fixed?

  Mrs. Elliott (Bernice) Pritchard : Bringing us on this road was criminal negligence.

  Elliott Pritchard : It certainly was.

  Van Brunt : It isn't this road. It's the equipment. This should have been condemned long ago.

  Elliott Pritchard : What should have been condemned was that fool bus driver.