So let me get this straight, Bailey.
You're gonna spend the final moments of the 20th century,
the turn of the millennium--
Uh-uh. Not the turn. Not till 2001.
No, it is the turn 'cause mankind says it is.
You're gonna spend this incredibly consequential,
world-uniting celebration at a stranger's wedding?
She's not a stranger. She's Holly's cousin.
What do you care, anyway? What are you, jealous?
What are you guys gonna do?
I'm watching it on TV with Owen and Claud and Griffin.
Not with me. I've got better things to do, like sleep.
Owen, what are you doing?
I'm coiling the lights like you told me.
So if Holly's cousin, whom you've never met before, is not a stranger,
then Holly is what?
Is she... Is she family?
No. Look, It's just a party, okay? It's no big deal.
She and I are just still pretty causal. We're just dating.
Bailey, a wedding is so not just a party. A wedding is serious.
You are so naive, Bailey.
I mean, she's willing to put you on record,
like permanent wedding album photographic record.
Yeah. And you're gonna meet the entire family,
which in girl speak is commitment with a capital "C".
-No. -Yeah.
No! No.
You guys are totally wrong, I'm telling you.
She hasn't said one word about commitment.
Actions speak louder than words, Bay.
Will you-- Owen, what are you doing?
You got me all tangled up here. Get me out of this.
♪ Everybody wants to live ♪
♪ Like they wanna live ♪
♪ And everybody wants to love ♪
♪ Like they wanna love ♪
♪ And everybody wants to be ♪
♪ Closer to free ♪
Hey.
Wow, look at this. You made dinner.
Yeah. It's a...
special occasion.
Today at work, I kind of got--
Look, I should warn you. I had a really bad day.
So I may not be able to get to that happy place with you.
Really? What happened?
Suffice it to say that my drug company liaison
has all the bedside manner of a sink disposal.
What did he do?
We're testing these anti-anxiety drugs on these kids,
But by the way he treats them,
you'd think they were beakers of...
No. You know what? Let's not relive it.
So what's your news?
Well, maybe now is not the best time.
No. Tell me.
Okay. I, uh... I got a promotion.
Really? You did?
I thought... I thought you hated that place.
No, no, I don't hate it.
I mean, the assembly line gets kind of repetitive sometimes.
So you're off the assembly line now finally?
Not exactly. I'm, uh... supervising a shift.
-But the money's better. -A little.
But, I mean, that's not the reason to get excited or anything.
I get it. The hours are shorter.
Actually, they're a little bit longer.
Well, I don't... I don't understand.
Well, I mean, this is a chance for me to move up in the company
and get to a place where I can build my own designs.
Gus saw your designs and he liked them?
Well, I was waiting to cost them out first,
but I'm sure when he sees them...
So how's that a good thing?
I'm sorry.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
Look.
You're happy and that's...
that's all that matters.
How come all your customers sound like pets?
Spike, Spot, Stinky?
You wanna fix bikes, you gotta know bikers.
Ah... You know what? Forget this.
I can't do it, Jules.
No, Griffin, we're already at "S".
You've got Stinky to Zippo, and you finish your accounting for the year. Come on.
My hand's killing me, and this is taking forever.
Come on, I just don't feel like it.
Griffin, the only way to be sure you don't get this is not to try.
The cordless. The cordless. Where is it?
The machine will get it.
That's why I brought it in here, this Elaine, I'm supposed to meet her.
Where is it? Where is it?
Thank you. Hello?
Yeah, this is Julia Salinger.
Hi. Um, are we still--
She's leaving.
I understand.
So when, then? I mean, she's canceled three times already.
Not until next...
March? Are you serious?
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Fine. Bye.
Oh!
What's wrong? Who was that lady?
Some editor friend of Evan's
who, when he dropped my book, he sent it off to her,
and she actually called me, all excited to meet me,
but now she keeps canceling,
And her assistant Tim says she's leaving for two months now,
which means I have to wait till March
to find out if my book Is getting published.
And you're just gonna take that?
What choice do I have?
I can't get past Tim on the phone,
and I can't exactly barge into her office.
Griffin, you're smiling. Don't do that.
Just see if this sounds familiar.
The only way to be sure you don't get this is not to try.
Claud? Hey.
I need some help with some stuff, okay?
It's groceries and dry cleaners and the vet.
I'm busy.
The vet?
Thurber's been kind of lying around lately.
As opposed to what?
This morning, a piece of bacon fell right on his nose,
and he didn't even eat it.
Well, he looks fine to me. Why can't anyone else do this stuff?
Julia's with Griffin, and Victor's not working this week.
Anyway, you've been in here half your vacation.
Be good to get out,
stretch your legs out a bit.
What about your legs?
I have to meet Holly.
For what?
Picking out china.
She's already got you shopping for china.
It's for her cousin, Claudia. Here.
Bailey, I can't. I have a deadline.
This test has to be postmarked tomorrow.
What test?
The postsecondary standard test.
That's...
That's the test that you take
to say that you finished high school.
Why? What are you...
I wanna skip senior year, you know, go to college early.
Relax, Bailey. Lots of people do it.
I know it's really late to apply to colleges,
but that's why I'm looking at schools with rolling admissions.
And that way, when I finally find out which schools I'm accepted to,
I can just, you know, transfer the credits.
And I'll be that much further on.
Further on from what? I don't get it.
Why do you suddenly want out so bad?
Because...
I'm just...
over it.
High school. You know, all the standard stuff
you're supposed to go through,
finding yourself and the cliques and gossip and...
I'm just done with it.
But why haven't we talked about any of this?
We just did.
Surprise, surprise.
She's not there.
Yeah. And guess when she left?
Uh, about 20 minutes before we got here?
Right. So since Tim refuses to give up her home phone number,
the odds of finding her now are...
Fifty-fifty.
Fifty-fifty? Griffin, there's, like,
10 million people in San Francisco.
Yeah, but there are only 17 card readers on Union Street.
I checked.
What?
While you were up there, I joined a little smokers circle back there,
and I bummed a cigarette from Burt, who, uh, works with Elaine.
Says that she's really superstitious.
Told me that she won't do anything,
won't go on a trip, won't put out a book,
or anything without having her tarot cards read.
So?
And so he heard her book a reading for tomorrow
from a psychic on Union.
I mean, if she's really that superstitious,
you know, maybe you just
kind of bump into her,
Smack on the evening of the new millennium.
How could she not take that as a sign?
I can't believe I'm considering this.
All right, the truth is, I could use this too.
I mean, otherwise, what am I doing on New Year's Eve
except for sitting on my sorry, self-pitying ass,
thinking of ways to pop a beer with my one good hand, huh?
Ecru shiny, Ecru matte.
Bone matte, Bone shiny.
I think, uh, that one's pretty.
What do you think?
Um, I don't know. I, I don't really...
It's just paper.
Now, ribbon. one-inch white. two-inch bone.
two and an eighth-inch bone with wire.
Yeah, fine, Great.
Pick a card.
So, um, should I sign you too?
Sign me...
You mean sign it as a couple?
You think?
Uh, I don't know. What do you think?
Are you dating, seeing each other, exclusive,
pre-engaged, engaged, or married?
-We haven't really defined-- -What does "seeing"--
Why don't you two have a little chat?
So are you seeing someone else?
No.
No, not... Not right now, no.
No.
Do you want me to want you to...
not see...
anyone else?
Because I think that I want you to want me to not see anyone else.
Hmm. That's...
That's a... That's a... It's a good question.
A necessary question...
at some point for us to answer.
God, could they crank the heat any more in this place?
So what do you say? Uh, about the card?
I say yeah. I say yeah, all right.
Let's... We'll sign it as a couple.
Why not?
Now, this one, uh... I know the proportions aren't right yet,
but you could also save some money
by getting rid of this cross-hatching.
These are very pretty.
They're nice.
I had no idea you could actually do this.
Yeah, well, I had my own furniture business a couple of years ago.
I can see that.
Now these are chairs you could actually build.
Well, look, I showed these to a couple of guys I know in the restaurant business,
and two of them said that
they might buy some if they could just see a prototype.
You'll sell a lot of these, Charlie. No doubt about it.
You think?
Oh, yeah. You just need to get the right person to make them for you.
Yeah. Well, that's, uh, that's why I...
What about you?
Oh, Charlie.
What? What's so funny?
Nothing. It's just...
You remind me of me 30 years ago.
I came to my boss. I pitched him this line of high-quality knockoffs.
Some of them we're still making right now.
That's how I got started in the business,
getting told no by a guy just like me.
Well, he was wrong then, wasn't he?
Yeah, he was wrong.
So the right answer is yes, isn't it?
Charlie, I can't afford
to start a new product line just now.
I can barely afford to make payroll this month.
What? What are you...
I don't like to advertise this,
but you're management now, you may as well know.
We live... order to order right now.
We could go under just about any time.
Your furniture's beautiful, Charlie.
I just wish there was anything I could do about it.
Congratulations.
Here he is, Holly's restaurateur.
What a life story you have. You're a real survivor.
God, I'm sorry I ditched you.
We have a bit of a wedding cake crisis.
They delivered one with an almond paste,
and the groom has a nut allergy rash.
There she is. Come with me. Jane. Jane is a chef.
Aunt Lydia, I need to steal Jane away from you.
This is Bailey Salinger. He'll take over.
The boy your mother told me about?
Yes. Probably.
She forgot her cane. Do you mind?
-Uh, no. Not at all. -Thanks.
You have two hours to bake a cake.
Bradford, this is Barry Salinder,
Holly's boyfriend.
It's Bailey Salinger. It's nice to meet you. Congratulations.
This is Barry Salinger, Holly's fiance.
It's Bailey, and we're not engaged yet.
We're not even close, really.
I think maybe Aunt Lydia had a mistaken--
This is Bailey Salinger, Holly's husband.
Did I get it right?
Close enough.
Griffin, no more. I can't take it.
We've been to 11 psychics already. We're not gonna find her.
Come on, just two seconds, okay?
Madame Olga?
No, I'm Trudy. Olga's inside.
Let me guess, you're a skeptic.
You read my mind.
Yeah, well, me too.
How's that? You work here.
Olga says I have the gift, but I'm not sure.
'Cause she's just one person.
I haven't read for that many people,
so my work kind of hasn't been tested, you know?
Oh.
Why don't you practice on me?
Really?
Sure.
Okay.
Think of a question you want answered.
I have one.
Let's see.
It's about a man.
Big money problem?
There's a gift you'd like to receive.
Wait a minute. Oh, these are upside down.
It's about your work.
Uh-huh.
You've made great efforts,
and now you're waiting to see if they'll be recognized.
Wow, that's um...
Yeah.
Really, I got that right?
Yeah. Uh...
So can you tell me what's gonna happen?
The hermit. That's a hard one to read.
Are you a writer?
It means that you'll find the answers you seek
by yourself, looking inward.
By myself?
Or in a gathering of others looking outward, one of those.
Those are two complete opposites. Can you pick one?
Let's see. Uh...
I'm gonna say--
Hey, I found her.
She'll be at a New Year's Eve party tonight. I got the address right here.
Gathering. Definitely gathering.
-Come on, Jules. -I was...
I was totally gonna say gathering.
-Thanks. -I was gon-- I was.
Owen, let's go.
The post office closes in half an hour.
Okay, are we ready, Diana? Let's double-check.
Thurber won't come. He's being stubborn.
So grab him by the collar and tug him a little.
Okay, the history, Geometry, English.
Good to go.
Claudia?
What?
I think Thurber's sick. He just threw up.
Let's take a look.
But the way you explained it to me, he has no choice.
Either he starts selling new things, or he goes out of business.
That's the way I see it. He sees it differently.
Um, guys?
Well, how else could he see it?
Well, he thinks his way is safe and my way is riskier.
I don't mean to be rude, but I--
How is his way safe?
His way, he's definitely gonna fail.
But your way, maybe he won't.
Kirsten, why are you so worked up about all this?
Because.
Because we gave up on trying to have a baby right now
to make room for this.
You know, for stuff that's really important to us, and you are so close.
If this guy, if you made him see reason--
Is there any way that maybe you guys Could just, you know, hold off?
You know what I mean, Charlie. You know--
Could you save it, please?
I'm sorry. That was so rude.
I'm sorry. It's just... You know what?
Luke is my brand new boyfriend.
We're supposed to be having fun here, okay?
And it was so, so nice of you to squeeze us in
before the-- your company party thing, Charlie.
But, you know, this is not my fantasy New Year's Eve conversation.
I mean, the factory going under? Come on.
No more shoptalk.
-We're sorry. We're sorry. -Promise.
Oh, my God, I hope you like him.
We will. We will.
Do you know that he grew up two towns from me in Texas?
So every time I hear him say--
Howdy.
He's here.
Okay. Luke, meet, uh... This is Charlie.
-Sir. -Uh, it's Charlie.
-This is Kirsten. -Ma'am. Sorry I'm late.
Oh, no, you're not late. We were early, and--
Sweetheart.
Hey there, darling.
- Oh, I missed you. - I missed you.
That Regis.
He let a contestant call up a friend.
Well, who couldn't win a million--
Excuse me, excuse me. Could you...
Would you mind taking over for me just a second?
Aunt Lydia forgot her cane,
And I gotta, you know, pee.
I'd like to be on that show.
I wouldn't have to call--
Bailey!
We've been looking for you.
Here he is. I found him.
Stand over there next to Holly.
No, Bert. He really doesn't have to.
Oh, you know what? This is a family picture. I really shouldn't--
We insist.
Come on, Get in here.
God, I'm so sorry. Listen, just humor them,
And this will all be over really soon. I promise.
This will be you and Holly a year from now if she has her way, huh?
Smile, everyone!
There she is.
That's her. There she is. I've seen her picture before.
Well, so go over and talk to her.
Okay.
What if she says no?
What if she says yes?
Right.
Wow. Hey,
What a coincidence.
You're Elaine Crowe, right?
I'm a friend of Evan Stillman's. Julia Salinger.
We spoke once, actually.
Really?
Yeah. Yeah, and here we are speaking again.
What are the chances of that?
Not very good, considering this is my party,
and you weren't on the list.
Oh.
Okay. Um, look, before you get mad,
and before I, uh, I get out,
I just need to know something.
I wrote a memoir that you read about a relationship I had--
I remember the book.
Right, and you told me you thought it was good.
That's correct. I did.
Okay, so, um,
why have you been dodging my calls?
I'm gonna answer your question, and then get back to my friends.
This just came out today.
See this piece right here?
"Shaken. Heidi Roth's memoir Picked up by Trousdale Publishers."
She's a Princeton sophomore
who survived a college relationship Like yours.
My managing editor signed her two weeks before Evan sent your book.
I found that out later. I never would have read you in the first place.
Wow.
I'm sorry.
She got there first.
So hers is better, Is that what you're saying?
Not better, Just too much like yours.
And in this business, First to press is everything.
Okay, but mine has to be different.
I mean, mine is mine.
That may be, But it doesn't matter.
You wrote a nice book.
You just...
You missed your moment.
It's 10 o'clock everybody. Time for the bouquet toss.
On behalf of both of us,
we would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year
and a future full of love.
Okay, everyone, here comes the toss.
Who will be the next bride?
Go for it, ladies.
There he is! The lucky winner.
All right, your decision. What are you gonna do next?
Claudia?
I ran some tests,
And I'm very sorry, but Thurber's very sick.
Very?
Meaning what?
Meaning you might have to make some difficult decisions.
You should probably call your family.
Decisions?
About what would be most humane.
Your cousin Jane really made this thing in two hours?
She really saved the day. Good.
Where are you going?
I'm not gonna pretend that didn't happen.
What do you mean?
I mean, you just stood there holding that stupid bouquet
like it was a grenade about to explode in your face.
Holly, come on. What did you expect?
If I threw that bouquet to you, your family would have thought I was setting a date.
No, they wouldn't. That's absurd.
You're right, You're right, I forgot,
because half of them already think we're engaged.
And the other half think we're married.
Oh, God. Look, So a couple of them got carried away.
They're my family, you know? They're just excited for me.
They're pleased that I found someone nice.
Okay, see, what does that mean? You found someone?
That sounds...
so final, you know?
I mean, is that how you talk about us?
Well, yes, actually. It is.
Holly, yesterday we weren't even sure if we were a couple.
God, what is your problem?
I mean, Found someone? A couple?
I mean, who cares? They're just words.
They're just words that other people are using.
What matters here is, is this, is us,
What happens with our feelings and...
I thought we felt pretty good.
I mean, am I wrong?
Am I way off base here?
I'm sorry. This will just take a second.
Hello?
Yeah, Claudia. Wha--
You're kidding me.
Okay, where are you right now?
Okay, sit tight. I'll be right over.
Okay.
My dog,
Thurber, he's sick.
Your dog?
Yes, my dog, Thurber.
We've had him since...
I mean, I can't even remember.
But anyway, he's really sick.
Okay, if you wanna leave so badly, just go.
Wh-- You don't believe me?
Of course I believe you.
So go.
It's just sometimes the people who run these trials,
they get too caught up in rules and regulations.
So basically you're just trying to put a human face
on the medicine these boys and girls are taking.
Well, I guess. That's a nice way to put it.
Mmm, speaking of little girls,
I have to use the little girls' room.
Be sweet while I'm gone.
Anyway.
now she's not here.
so, uh...
so I can say this.
Where I come from, when a man
feels a certain way for a woman, he, uh...
he picks a time to sit with her family, you know, so
they can know his intentions.
And, uh, well, since you all are the nearest thing here
to a family for Daphne,
I just thought that maybe--
Really?
Ask us?
What for?
Well, uh...
For...
your blessing, I suppose.
We're really not in a position to--
That is sweet.
But, um,
why ask us?
I mean,
if we said no, if we didn't approve,
what would you do?
Well...
I don't know.
Yeah, you do.
You'd stay with her.
You wouldn't let anyone stand between you
and what you really want. Right, Charlie?
You would do everything possible to change our minds,
and if that didn't work, you'd find some other way.
Yes, ma'am.
Don't worry so much about what other people think.
Believe me, there are more important things.
The blood tests show a high level of creatinine.
It's a by-product of muscle breakdown
which the kidneys usually eliminate.
So his kidneys aren't working?
It happens.
But, you know, for a dog of his breed, he's lived a very long time.
Okay, well, what can we do?
Is there anything?
Well, dialysis for a few weeks,
But you're talking $12,000-$15,000
and very little chance of recovery.
It's 11:30.
Can we wait to decide?
Bailey.
You know what we have to do.
What about Charlie and Julia?
We have a brother and a sister, and they're out,
so I haven't been able to get a hold of them.
Okay, you can wait.
But you have to consider the pain he's in.
He's suffering quite a bit.
Where are they?
He's hurting, Bailey.
I can't even look at him anymore.
I know.
If we do dialysis, we won't be doing it for him.
We'll be doing it for us.
I know, Claud, I know.
Hey. Hey, Thurbs.
You're being such a good boy.
Yes, you are. You're being such a brave puppy.
So what? What do we do? We put him down?
That's what you think We should do?
Well, you wanna watch the millennium on TV?
I don't know. I think I'll just go to bed and read about it tomorrow,
if there is a tomorrow.
Hey, Julia, Are you there? It's Claudia.
Look, I'm okay and so are the kids,
but, um...
It's Thurber. He's sick. He's really, really sick.
We're at the animal hospital on 16th Street.
The vet here says that...
we have to put him to sleep.
So if you get this and you wanna say goodbye,
get down here before midnight. Okay?
Oh, my God, Thurber.
You okay?
No, I, um,
I got to get down there.
16th Street, That's quite a haul.
You might not make it in time.
Yeah. I'm gonna go, anyway.
I'll come with you.
Wow! I thought you said he was broke.
Look at that. He's got two open bars and a raw bar.
Ooh, shrimp.
Hey, Charlie! Oh, I'm glad you came.
You must be Kristen.
Um, it's Kirsten.
And you must be Gus.
Well, I don't see any glass in your hand.
No bubbly for you?
No. I don't feel like it.
It's a fiesta! Relax!
It's a little easier said than done, Gus.
Do you want me to get you anything?
The countdown's about to start.
No, I'm all set.
Okay.
What? What's wrong?
I don't know.
I guess that little conversation we had
has kind of stuck in my head.
Oh, now, look, just forget about that for the night.
I'll forget about it,
you tell me this party's costing a lot less than it looks.
Well, these guys bust their butts for me.
They deserve a reward.
A reward?
What about a place to work in a month?
Now, hey, come on.
You said you didn't have money to start any product lines, Gus.
This is because I said no to your designs?
Forget my designs. I don't care what designs you use.
This place is dead if you don't add customers.
What, you're a foreman now, you're gonna tell me what's what?
You know what?
Maybe I don't want that job anymore.
Charlie, you don't mean that--
You know what? I don't. I don't.
Make somebody else foreman, Gus.
I don't wanna be the one telling everybody they're losing their jobs.
Everyone makes such a big deal over Y2K.
A third of the world does not even have your New Years.
Like in China, we celeb--
We're not in China, are we?
We're not even in Chinatown now, thanks to you.
Griffin, it's not his fault.
But I told him to take Market, and he didn't.
And now it's almost midnight.
Whoa! Look at that.
Well, that was kind of perfect.
Yeah, perfect.
Oh, what?
That psychic,
she said I would find my answer.
At what? At a gathering.
Not that I really believed her, but I thought maybe at the lit party.
And when that didn't work out, I thought, okay,
well, maybe it means with my family at the vet's,
because then, at least, I'd have them.
But now,
now it's like, no, the answer is give it up already.
That's what it feels like the world is telling me
when I can't even make it to see my poor dog and say goodbye.
You shouldn't tell Owen.
Of course I'm gonna tell him. Why wouldn't I tell him?
Because it's too horrible, Bailey.
"Thurber's in terrible pain, so we're gonna give him a shot that makes him die?"
What choice do we have? You want me to lie to him?
Why not?
Why not tell him we just sent him somewhere to let him get better?
A dog farm or some animal hospital somewhere?
Because then he'll ask us what farm,
where and can we visit him, and why can't we visit him?
He's only six.
Why can't we spare him this?
Why does everything bad that happens
have to be put out in the open?
Claud, what are you talking about?
Why can't we just let him be young...
a little bit longer?
Look, I understand.
But think about this.
Owen has a chance to say goodbye,
and no one should miss that chance.
Don't you think?
-Thank you for watching them. -Sure.
Hey, bud.
Okay, so you...
you understand
that Thurber's real sick, right?
Well...
the truth is...
there's not a lot that we can do to help him,
to help him get better.
So if we really love him,
then what we have to do,
we have to figure out what's the fairest thing for him.
You know what I mean?
Okay, this is the spot,
his favorite place in the whole world.
Uh,
anybody wanna say something?
I don't know.
It's a nice view from here. I hope he's happy.
This is so sad.
Just makes me wish he was here.
Hey.
Who says he's not here, Owe?
Bailey, you're holding his ashes.
Yeah, but who says you can't still see him, you know, like,
in your head?
Yeah.
Yeah, I see him eating that family's picnic over there.
Hmm. I see him peeing all over that wall.
What about that rope toy he loved?
We'd spend half of every afternoon
trying to figure out where he hid that thing,
over by that tree and behind those bushes.
So where should we spread him, then? Maybe this isn't the spot.
How about...
everywhere?
Okay.
All right.
Everybody take a little handful.
You know, this might be the first time Thurber's dumped
and we haven't gotten a ticket.
Yeah, lay some Thurber on me.
Goodbye, Thurber.
Want to throw a little bit of Thurber out here?
Hey.
Charlie!
Yeah, you called me. What's up?
Hey, look, we said some things last night. Come in.
I was feeling a little festive, a little
worse for the wine, and...
Anyway, I just, I just wanted to say
I hope you weren't serious about what you said.
About quitting as foreman.
Gus...
If it's about the party, I'll say it.
You were right.
I shouldn't be spending so much money.
Just... I see these guys, how they sweat for me day after day, and I--
What about the rest of it?
Making something new here?
Charlie, if I start spending money I don't have,
and if one thing goes wrong, I'm finished, like that.
So the answer is no then.
Well, wait, come on.
Gus, you don't understand.
I need what I do...
I need it to be about the future.
Okay? I don't have any more time to be moving sideways.
I'm sorry.
Now, Charlie, wait.
Now,
you said you could build these chairs and
not lay out a lot of money.
That really true?
Depends. I mean,
if I line up the right customers first, yeah.
Could you lay it out on paper for me,
see how it all works?
Of course.
Is that a yes that we can do this?
We'll try.
Let's try.
-All right. -All right.
Holly, you really shouldn't have.
Yeah, well, to tell you the truth, I didn't really.
They were left over from the wedding.
But,
I'm really sorry about Thurber.
I feel so bad. You know?
You know what, I'm sorry too.
I should have thrown that bouquet to you.
-Nah. -Yes.
It's okay.
Well...
how about one?
How about
one at a time?
How would that be?
That's really sweet. Thank you.
What's it mean?
It means...
It means
that as long as I get to be with you
and not know what it means, then I'm happy.
Because that's all I want. I wanna be with you.
I don't wanna know
what the future is yet.
So...
I'll see you...
whenever.
No way. Ours was definitely worse.
Are you kidding? We were stuck in a cab with some guy
that was telling us it wasn't even New Year's.
At least you guys saw fireworks.
Excuse me.
Animal hospital watching my pet be put down.
You win.
I can't top that one.
Come on, guys. It was one millennium. There'll be others.
- Yeah, right. - Yeah.
I'm depressed.
I mean, we totally missed it.
We missed, like, the biggest moment ever.
Claud, I thought you were planning to miss it.
I was kidding myself. I watched it on TV at the vet's.
Last night was not nothing.
Yeah, okay, but
who said we missed it, really?
I don't know, the clock?
No.
You know what? I have spent the last 24 hours complaining
the world said I wasn't gonna have my moment.
Whatever it was, my book coming out,
my new millennium eve to remember,
but I don't know.
Who says the world can decide that for me,
what my moment should be?
I mean, who says we can't all decide for ourselves?
You wanna wake up Dick Clark, Raise that ball again?
You know what? Julia's right.
Oh, accept it, you guys.
Y2K, not a Salinger holiday.
Then you know what I say?
I say...
ten...
nine...
eight...
seven...
six...
five...
four...
three...
two, one!
Happy New Year!