The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[memento]

“Jack, I got a work. Them earlier days I used a quit the jobs. You got a wife with money, a good job. You forget how it is bein broke all the time. You ever hear a child support? I been payin' out for years and got more to go. Let me tell you, I can’t quit this one. And I can’t get the time off. It was tough gettin this time—some a them late heifers is still calvin. You don’t leave then. You don’t. Scrope is a hell-raiser and he raised hell about me takin the week. I don’t blame him. He probly ain’t got a night’s sleep since I left. The trade-off was August. You got a better idea?”

[story]

[MaineWriter]

Ennis and Alma moved into Riverton and began renting an apartment over the laundromat; even though Alma had said she could "fix it up real nice," in the movie, it didn't look like she did much in the way of interior decorating.

[Fran]

     "I doubt there's nothin now we can do," said Ennis.  "What I'm sayin, Jack, I built a life up in them years.  Love my little girls.  Alma?  It ain't her fault.  You got your baby and wife, that place in Texas.  You and me can't hardly be decent together if what happened back there" -- he jerked his head in the direction of the apartment -- "grabs on us like that.  We do that in the wrong place we'll be dead.  There's no reins on this one.  It scares the piss out a me."

[story]

[southendmd]

Jack displayed his toothful smile while singing along to "King of the Road":  "...old worn-out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues..."

[Meryl]

After the Thanksgiving fiasco with Alma, Ennis unburdens himself somewhat to Jack the next time they meet: "You ever get the feelin', I don't know, when you're in town, and someone looks at you, suspicious...like he knows.  And then you get out on the pavement, and everyone, lookin' at you, and maybe they all know, too?"

[Fran]

     "Well, you’re goin a go where you look.  Army didn’t get you?"  The thunder sounded far to the east, moving from them in its red wreaths of light.

[story]

[memento]

Round 663!!

Examples of Anger and Annoyance

[memento]

Ennis angrily stormed out the door after Alma spilled the beans about his "fishing trips" with Jack Nasty.

[MaineWriter]

At first, Ennis brushed off Alma's comments when she asked him why he wasn't getting married again; but then his anger mounted when she confronted him with her knowledge of "Jack Nasty."

[southendmd]

Ennis became enraged when Alma accused him of being carnally involved with Jack Nasty.