Carter Kitchens, 1985
Albert: Jerry, it's not about the money. Really. It's just...
Jerry: What is it, Albert?
Albert: It's just that...
Jerry: Just say it! It's just what?
Albert: It's just that: I don't love cabinets.
Jerry: What are you talking about. You're our best cabinet salesperson. We need you, Al.
Albert: Jerry, I've been here a long time, right?
Jerry: Eleven years! Twelve in March.
Albert: Yeah, and over the years I thought that something might change, that they would grow on me and I could learn to love 'em. But they didn't and I don't. At all. I really don't like cabinets.
Jerry: Don't say that. You realise you're our top rep, right? You might even be the best cabinet salesman in all of Baltimore. You have a gift; don't throw it a away.
Albert: A gift?
Jerry: A gift.
Albert: A gift for selling cabinets?
Jerry: A gift for selling cabinets.
Albert: I don't know Jerry. I think I need to get out of the cabinet game. Branch out.
Jerry: Branch out? From cabinets?
Albert: Yeah, branch out. Away from cabinets.
Jerry: You want to branch out away from cabinets. Is that what you're telling me?
Albert: Christ, Jerry. Yes.
Jerry: How can you say that? You! Who have sold more than, well, I don't even know how many cabinets you've sold here—
Albert: About thirty-seven hundred.
Jerry: Over thirty-seven hundred cabinets! You've sold—
Albert: About thirty-seven hundred. I don't know if it's over.
Jerry: So it's thirty-six hundred and something?
Albert: I don't know exactly.
Jerry: So it could be over thirty-seven hundred.
Albert: Sure, I'll allow that it could be over. But just as equally, it could be under thirty-seven hundred cabinets. I'm not sure exactly. That's why I said "about."
Jerry: Listen, Al. Will you allow a desperate man the outcome of a coin toss and let me say "over thirty-seven hundred"?
Albert: (sighs) Sure, Jerry.
Jerry: So you've sold over thirty-seven hundred cabinets in this store. To honest and hardworking Americans—
Albert: How do you know they're honest and hardworking?
Jerry: Al, please.
Albert: I'm sorry, Jerry. Keep going.
Jerry: Honest and hardworking Americans, whose lives you've improved immeasurably. And you want to give it all up? You of all people should know how important cabinets are to a kitchen.
Albert: They're pretty important, I suppose.
Jerry: Pretty important. Pretty important? The most important, Albert. The most important thing in a kitchen.
Albert: More than a stove?
Jerry: A thousand times more.
Albert: How about the sink? I mean, isn't that pretty crucial?
Jerry: Even more than that. Where are you going to put your pots and pans? And your plates? And your food?
Albert: I never thought of it like that.
Jerry: Come on, let's sell some cabinets.
Albert: (shaking head) Oh, Jerry. You got me again. I don't know what got into me.