they talked about old times though jonathon bohrs did not talk much and blaise did not talk much and in fact almost instantly wanted to leave , but don talked enough for all of them and talked about how the neighborhood was going to hell in general but here and there some nice young couples were moving in but here and there were welfare mothers or worse , indians , and he kept a shotgun over the door and his van double-locked and had a pistol under his bed , but that the good lord always did provide , john , and he still had work to do because no one knew how to fix a damn thing anymore - not tv 's , not kitchen sinks , not dryers , not nothing , and john oughta come out of retirement and join him because work would do him good and if there were n't no family to hold him in that mess of a sub-suburb anymore he ought to join him down here and keep an old man company and the two of them keep busy fixing the appliances bought by the nit wits who were popping out of these state colleges with overpriced degrees and no more knowledge than god give a junebug no offense to junebugs but damn what exactly did they learn for their money ?