That shouldn't have happened. But I guess it had to.

4 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:44:47.409 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- What was the other thing?

- Mm, that was even sillier. I dreamed I was gonna have my own home. Just a nice little house for my wife and me out in the country in the suburbs, anyway.

- That's the cockeyed kind of dream you have when you're overseas.

- You don't have to be overseas to have dreams like that.

- Yeah. You can get crazy ideas right here at home.

- Didn't you say you had to be back at work at 2?

- Yeah.

- Well, hadn't you better...?

- Yeah.

- Check, please.

- Eighty-five cents apiece for lunch, plus tax, that's a $1.76.

- Okay.

- Thank you very much. Goodbye.

- Bye.

- Goodbye, signorina. Come again.

- We'll do that. So long, Giuseppe.

- Arrivederci, Fred.

- That shouldn't have happened. But I guess it had to.

- Goodbye, Peggy.

- Goodbye.

(1946 Chevrolet Stylemaster car engine starting)

- We were discussing this loan to this man, uh... What's his name? Novak.

- Yes, yes, I approved it.

- Well, may I ask, Al, on what basis?

- On the basis of my own judgment.

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