Barbara Thomas:
And if you want the truth, I think this rationing and everything that goes with it is just a pain in the neck.
Doris Dumbrowski:
Barbara! You sound like a... fifth columnist.
Barbara Thomas:
Look, you two jumped on me first. The minute I came in the door you started Psalm-singing. Well, now I'm gonna' tell you something. I've been listening to this gabble about how we gotta' do this and we gotta' do that for 3 weeks, and sisters, I'm plenty sick of it. Rationing? Sure, I'll hold still for it because I've got to, but I'm not gonna' run around like a moon-faced Pollyanna saying I like it.
Barbara Thomas:
[continues]
Maybe I'm not so dumb as you think I am. This whole thing would never have happened in the first place if we'd been minding our own business. We wouldn't have to get a government stamp out every time we wanted to buy a piece of butter if they weren't shipping it all to a lot of foreigners. Why, they're rationing gas right here in California, where they got more of the stuff than they can haul away. Even the government doesn't know what it's gonna' do tomorrow. They're gonna' ration this, they're gonna' ration that. They are, they aren't. Blow hot, blow cold. He's up, he's down. What kind of business is that, anyway? And while we're being pushed around at home, our guys are out fightin' in countries they never even heard of, for a lot of foreigners who'll turn on us like a pack of wolves the minute it's over.
Doris Dumbrowski:
Barbara!
Barbara Thomas:
Well, it's the truth, and you know it.
Jo Jones:
You oughta' be ashamed of yourself! Do you know where that kind of talk comes from? It comes straight from Berlin. Every time you say it, every time you even think it, you're double-crossing your own husband.
Jo Jones:
[continues]
How can we go on minding our own business when somebody blackjacks us in an alley and you got Pearl Harbor on your hands? And who wants to get slick and fat when half the people in the world are starving to death for things that we can do without? Mistakes? Sure, we make mistakes, plenty of them. You want a country where they won't stand for a mistake? Go to Germany. Go to Japan. And the first time you open your trap like you have tonight, you'll find a gun in your stomach! You're the kinda' people Hitler counted on when he started this war. Talk, talk, talk, and *never* think. And that's the biggest mistake any guy ever thought of makin', because there're not enough of you and there're plenty of us and by Judas Priest if it takes...
[she's interrupted by the doorbell ringing. Barbara's date has arrived at the house]

Barbara Thomas:
That's my date.
Jo Jones:
[snidely]
Saved by the bell!

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