The narrator is on the phone with his uncle, who gave the boat to the narrator when he was a child. He tells the narrator that his father hates him, but that he is a good person. The narrator tells him that he was too dumb to understand his father's drinking, and that he does not drink as much now as he used to. He asks where they are going to get him, and the narrator says that no one is going to come to his house. The man is too drunk to tell him, so the narrator calls him a "twitch" and a "puppet" and tells him to stop calling him "unfair" and "dishonest." The narrator tries to get the man to stop, but the man does not want to listen to him.