you can sit down.  if you want to.
you ever been on a real shrimp boat?
i'm talkin' about a shrimp catchin' boat. i've been workin' on shrimp boats all my life. i started out my uncle's boat, that's my mother's brother, when i was about maybe nine. i was just lookin' into buyin' a boat of my own and got drafted. my given name is benjamin buford blue.
people call me bubba. just like one of them redneck boys. can you believe that?
i know everything there is to know about the shrimpin' business. matter of fact, i'm goin' into the shrimpin' business for myself after i get out the army.
what you do is you just drag your nets across the bottom. on a good day, you can catch over a hundred pounds of shrimp. if everything goes all right, two men shrimpin' ten hours, less what you spends on gas, you can.
anyway, like i was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. you can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. there, uh, shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole.
shrimp gumbo, panfried, deep fried, stir fried. there's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp.
shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich.  that's, that's about it.
y'know, i bet there's shrimp all in these waters. they tell me these vietnams is good shrimp. you know, after we win this war, and we take over everything we can get american shrimpers to come on here and shrimp these waters. we'll just shrimp all the time, man. so much shrimp, why, you wouldn't believe it.
i was born with big gums, sir.
hey forrest.
i'm gonna lean up against you, you just lean right back against me.
this way, we don't have to sleep with our heads in the mud. you know why we a good partnership, forrest? 'cause we be watchin' out for one another. like brothers and stuff. hey, forrest, there's somethin' i've been thinkin' about. i got a very important question to ask you. how would you like to go into the shrimpin' business with me?
man, i tell you what, i got it all figured out, too. so many pounds of shrimp to pay off the boat, so many pounds for gas, we can just live right on the boat. we ain't got to pay no rent. i'll be the captain; we can just work it together. split everything right down the middle. man, i'm tellin' you, fifty-fifty. and, hey, forrest, all the shrimp you can get.
forrest, you okay?
medic, we got a man down!
forrest! run! run, forrest!
forrest! run! run, forrest! run! run!
forrest.
i'm okay.
naw, i'm gonna be all right.
i'm okay, forrest. i'm all right.
hey, forrest. forrest, why'd this happen?
i wanna go home.