- Sounds like a boarding school.
- Yeah.
5 seconds sound clip from the Rocky Fortune - Pint-Sized Payroll Bandit (Ep. 4) classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:11:49 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- I know how you must feel, Mick.
- That's not true, kid. Lots of people get a raw deal from life. You take me. I was an orphan.
- I didn't even have a father to run away from.
- You don't get much love from a paid matron who has to divide it up among 150 lonely kids.
- Sounds like a boarding school.
- Yeah.
- Sometimes I used to lay in bed wanting to cry so bad I thought I'd bust wide open.
- That's how I feel sometimes.
- I don't care. I'm gonna be tough.
- Sure, you live in the jungle, you gotta be tough. But running away, that ain't tough, kid.
- Why don't you go home to your dad?
- I can't.
- Why not?
- He don't want me. He never wanted me. He never even lived with me and Mom.
- Never?
- Uh-uh.
[...]