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Hey, Vito. Tell him
the Peewee Grogan story.
:44:05
Please, we can do
without the Peewee Grogan story.
:44:07
Your father was 17 or 18.
:44:10
Peewee was a couple of years older.
:44:13
He was a tough little thief
from 9th Avenue.
:44:15
Couple of inches shorter
and he'd have wound up in the circus.
:44:18
Used to say, in a street fight, he could
hit you with overhand left to the balls.
:44:23
The three of us went after
a load of French perfume.
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- It was sitting in a warehouse out in...
- Bush terminal.
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Right.
:44:31
God. We stripped Peewee naked.
:44:34
We smeared him from head to foot
with Vaseline.
:44:38
Now, this kid squeezed through
25 feet of air-conditioning duct.
:44:42
And when he opened the door for us...
:44:44
...he was dripping blood.
:44:46
Hundreds of little gashes
where he'd ripped himself to shreds...
:44:50
...on the heads of the nails
going through.
:44:53
- Vito, that dwarf had heart.
- Yeah, that he did.
:44:56
- We worked for six hours.
- No, five and a half.
:44:59
- Six.
- Five and a half.
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On an inside steel door...
:45:03
...with 25 grand of French perfume
on the other side.
:45:07
We took turns with a sledgehammer.
We battered it. We hammered it.
:45:10
We tried everything.
We even tried to cry our way through.
:45:14
- Vito, am I exaggerating?
- Just finish the story, Pop.
:45:18
Finally, Peewee knelt down
and prayed.
:45:22
He swore this was gonna be
his last burglary...
:45:25
...if only God would let us open
that fucking door.
:45:29
You see, what the job called for
was a three-foot pry bar.
:45:34
Your old man hadn't brought one.
:45:37
So we left empty-handed.
Peewee left a pint of blood behind...
:45:41
...and Vito swore he'd never go
on another job under-equipped.
:45:45
Your grandpa's moral
is to be prepared like a Boy Scout.
:45:48
But what he's forgetting
is that it was him...
:45:50
...that should have brought
the pry bar.
:45:52
- Bullshit. The tools were your end.
- The tools were my end? I beg to differ.
:45:56
Whatever happened
to Peewee Grogan?
:45:58
Peewee? Well, he wound up
doing 15 to 30 as an habitual.