Vapors (1965)
Gerald Jacuzzo: Thomas
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[first lines]
Clerk : Can I help you?
Thomas : [nervous] Uh... I want to take a steam bath and uh...
Clerk : That will be $3.50.
Thomas : Three-fifty? I thought it was only two.
Clerk : This is Friday, the weekend. It's always three-fifty on the weekends.
[Thomas pays the Clerk]
Clerk : Here's your key. Hey, you forgot your towel, robe and slippers.
Thomas : Oh... thanks. Say, is there a place around here where I can get a cup of coffee to take with me?
Clerk : Yeah, right over there on the right. But you can't take any food or drinks up to your room.
Thomas : Oh... well, thanks anyway.
Clerk : You got any valuables you want to check in? Anything over five bucks?
Thomas : Why is that?
Clerk : If you can't trust your own mother these days, how are you going to trust a "recent acquaintance"?
Thomas : Oh, I see what you mean. I guess I'll leave my ring and my wallet.
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Mr. Jaffee : Are you alone in there?
Thomas : Yeah. That's why my door is open.
Mr. Jaffee : Mind if I come in?
Thomas : I guess so.
Mr. Jaffee : All right if I turn on the light?
Thomas : Sure, why not?
Mr. Jaffee : [turns on the light] Mind if I sit down?
Thomas : Why should I mind?
Mr. Jaffee : [closes the door and sits down] This is my first time here at the baths. Quite a lot of excitement going on out there.
Thomas : Well, it's Friday night. It's always busy on the weekend.
Mr. Jaffee : I've never taken a bath like here before. I mean a steam bath. It's very refreshing. Very healthy. Cleanses you inside as well as out. I think I lost ten pounds already. Don't you find it refreshing?
Thomas : Oh, yes. Very.
Mr. Jaffee : It sounds like you don't.
Thomas : Don't what?
Mr. Jaffee : That you don't find it refreshing.
Thomas : It's just I have been here so many times. It's like baking in an oven, but it's still refreshing.
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Mr. Jaffee : I just decided that I really don't like this place. It's like a Hell for men. An insane asylum for homosexuals. Some of those boys out there were whispering and giggling about me out in the hallway.
Thomas : Whatever possessed you to come here in the first place?
Mr. Jaffee : Oh, I heard so much about the baths. They're famous you know.
Thomas : They seem to be quite famous. And an awful lot of people come. Did you come because of that?
Mr. Jaffee : [short pause] Yes, I suppose so. No... I came here to get away from my wife. I wanted just one night of vacation away from my wife.
Thomas : I came just to see what they were like. I heard it was an adventure every time.
Mr. Jaffee : I thought you said you came here four times a week.
Thomas : I did didn't I? Well, I was lying to you. This is my first time here. And the first time I've ever taken a steam bath. Except once when I was little. I took a steam bath once in my grandmother's bathroom.
Mr. Jaffee : Yeah? How did you do that?
Thomas : I turned on the hot water in the shower full blast and closed the window. In a few minutes the room was full of steam. It wasn't quite as effective as the ones here.
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Thomas : I think feet are very important too. This boy I met once had two toes stuck together on each foot and I couldn't make love to him. I just couldn't.
Mr. Jaffee : My wife, Isabella Jaffee, has the most ugliest feet I've ever seen in my entire life. Corns and bunions all over them. And her toes kind of curl under. She's always squeezing her feet into shoes too small for her own size. She's so vain. She doesn't want anyone to know that she has such big feet. She's always complaining about them, but she will never put them into a shoe her own proper size. At night in bed, she wiggles her toes on me. I can feel her corns and bunions touching me. I have to get out of the bed sometimes and wait until she falls asleep.
Thomas : Good feet are important. I think well-shaped feet are very sensual. They excite me an awful lot. I can get very engrossed with them.
Mr. Jaffee : I've never had the nerve to tell Isabella how much I hate her feet. She'd probably cry if I did. But I wish to hell she'd stop touching me with them.
