From the inestimable Peter Ames Carlin (
http://www.peteramescarlin.com/node/200).
So you ask: After all these years of heartbreak and broken promises, what would you change if you could go back and do it again?
Wilson looks down at the table. He gazes out through the window. Finally, he looks back into your eyes and lays it all on the line.
"You know the end of 'California Girls' when it goes, 'Girls, girls, girls, yeah I dig the girls'?" He sings this last part. You nod. "I wish I had made that louder. Like when David Lee Roth did it, and he goes, "Ah dig GUUUURLS!" (He's singing again, loudly.) Man, we shoulda done it like that."
He gets up to pay the check.
A woman sitting alone in a booth nearby leans over.
"That man's a genius. I hope you know who you're talking to."
Actually, I don't think I do. But that's exactly how both of us want it.
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