Simon

Mack:

[while Mack waits for his car to be serviced at a local gas station, he and tow truck driver Simon sit in the parking lot discussing his family and the Grand Canyon] Simon:
[chuckles]
Man, get yourself to the Grand Canyon. Mack:
Beautiful, huh? Simon:
Eh, it's pretty, all right, but that's not the thing of it. You can sit right on the edge of it, you know? I-I did that. I did everything: I went down in it, I stayed overnight there. But the thing that got me was sitting on the edge of that big old thing. Those rocks. Yeah, those cliffs and rocks is so old. Took so long for that thing to get to look like that... and it ain't done either, you know? It happens right while you're sitting there watching it. It's happening right now while we're sitting here in this ugly town. [Simon finishes his soda and throws the can into the dumpster across the parking lot] Simon:
[sighs]
When you sit on the edge of that thing, you just realize what a joke we people are. What big heads we got thinking that what we do is gonna matter all that much. Thinking our time here means diddly to Those rocks. It's a split second we been here, the whole lot of us. And one of us? That's a piece of time too small to give a name. Mack:
You trying to cheer me up? Simon:
Yeah, those rocks are laughing at me, I could tell. Me and my worries, it's real humorous to that Grand Canyon. Hey, you know what I felt like? I felt like a gnat that lands on the ass of a cow that's chewing its cud next to the road that you ride by on at 70 miles an hour. Mack:
[laughs]
That's small. Simon:
Yeah, it's small. Mack:
My name is Mack. Simon:
Simon