Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner Quotes in Bound for Glory (1976)

[first lines]

Hank - Man in Gas Station: ['California Water Tastes Like Cherry Wine' plays in the background'] What's the matter?

Carl - Man in Gas Station: Hey, Wood.

Woody Guthrie: Yeah.

Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner: Cherry wine.

Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner: [Jenkins turns off the record player] Goddamit, Woody. I got half a notion to pull up stakes and hit the road for California.

Carl - Man in Gas Station: I been thinking about down the Gulf of Mexico... or the Rio Grande valley. Just somewheres I can grow some fruit, peaches. Them Indian blood peaches with that red meat.

Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner: Shit fire, Carl! Why down there? In California you just plop a seed into the ground, you find a sprout the very next day.

Hank - Man in Gas Station: Well, it seems I sure gotta do something. I just don't know what's going to happen to everybody around here.

Woody Guthrie: You folks... sure are depressing.

Collister - Gas Station Customer: You boys got any news?

Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner: Ain't nothin' interesting to tell about, except people are moving out of these parts.

Collister - Gas Station Customer: My name's Collister, and I've been running all over this here state to them fortune tellers; ain't one of them told me a damn thing. Someone tell me something worth listening to, and I'll pay 'em a dollar, good American money.

Woody Guthrie: It's been pretty dusty around here.

Collister - Gas Station Customer: That ain't worth nothing,

Carl - Man in Gas Station: Hell, Woody, that ain't worth nothing, for sure.

Woody Guthrie: Well... I ain't much for fortune-telling. You're a inside man, got a big job with the oil refinery.

Collister - Gas Station Customer: How'd you know that?

Woody Guthrie: Well... ain't nobody else got money to waste on fortune tellers, sody pop.

[Jenkins chuckles]

Collister - Gas Station Customer: Keep going,

Woody Guthrie: Well, them two creases in between your eyebrows... tell me... you're a man who probably takes his work serious, always looking for a way to do things better.

Collister - Gas Station Customer: You got 50 cents.

[Hank whistles]

Collister - Gas Station Customer: Keep talking,

Woody Guthrie: Oh, you probably got some kinda idea, an invention of some kind, big company wants to buy you out.

Collister - Gas Station Customer: You got a paper dollar if you can tell me when to do it.

Woody Guthrie: [Woody chuckles] Hell, I ain't no mind reader.

Collister - Gas Station Customer: [Woody starts playing his guitar] Hmm. You're the only one I ever met that didn't claim to know everything in the whole world. What's your name?

Woody Guthrie: Woody. Woody Guthrie.

Collister - Gas Station Customer: Well Guthrie, I'll spread the word. Worth every penny.

[Collister puts the money inside Woody's guitar]

Woody Guthrie: Thank you kindly.

Collister - Gas Station Customer: [to Jenkins] There you are, Pop, and there's a nickel for the Coke, dollar for the gas.