‘It’s got a lot to do with respect. You can’t let people large it up in your face and disrespect you. A man’s got to have respect or he’s nothing better than somebody’s punk.'
Respect? What has Laurie, or any of his friends, achieved in their lives that make them imagine that anybody should respect them? What have they done to earn respect? How pathetic he must seem to his son, blathering on about career beyond university, and how he will have to put in more effort and try twice as hard as anybody else, all the while his son is obviously thinking what a square tosser his dad is.