(Later, on the bus to basic training)

Forrest: Hello, I’m Forrest. Forrest Gump.

Bus Driver: Nobody gives a horse’s shit who you are, puss ball. You’re not even a lowlife, scum-sucking maggot. Get your maggoty ass on the bus. you’re in the army now.

Soldier1: Seat’s taken.

Soldier2: Taken.

Forrest: At first, it seemed like I’d made a mistake. Seeing how it was only my induction day and I was already gettin’ yelled at.

Bubba: Sit down if you want to.

Forrest: I didn’t know who I might meet or what they might ask.

Bubba: You ever been on a real shrimp boat?

Forrest: No. But I’ve been on a real big boat.

Bubba: I’m talking about a shrimp catching boat. I’ve been working on shrimp boats all my life. I started out on my uncle’s boat, that’s my mama’s brother, when I was about maybe nine. I was just lookin’ into buying a boat of my own and got drafted. My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue. People call me Bubba. Just like one of them old redneck boys. Can you believe that?

Forrest: My name’s Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.

Forrest: So Bubba was from Bayou La Batre, Alabama and his mama cooked shrimp, and her mama before her cooked shrimp, and her mama before her mama cooked shrimp too. Bubba’s family knew everything there was to know about the shrump in business.

Bubba: I know everything there is to know about the shrimpin’ business. (As a) matter of fact I’m going into the shrimpin’ business for myself, after I get out of the army.

Forrest: OK.