Forrest stops suddenly as his brace gets stuck.
Forrest's brace is caught in a gutter grate. Mrs. Gump bends down and
tries to free Forrest. Two old cronies sit in front of a barber shop and
watch.
Mrs. Gump: Just wait, let me get it.
Mrs. Gump struggles to pull the stuck brace from the grate.
Mrs. Gump: Let me get it. Wait, get it this way. Hold on.
Forrest pulls his foot out of the grate.
Mrs. Gump: All right.
Mrs. Gump helps Forrest up onto the sidewalk. She looks up and notices
the two old man.
Mrs. Gump: Oooh. All right. What are you all staring at? Haven't you
ever seen a little boy with braces on his legs before?
Mrs. Gump and Forrest walk along the sidwalk past the two old men. Mrs.
Gump holds tightly onto Forrest's hand.
Mrs. Gump: Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you,
Forrest. If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd
have given us all braces on our legs.
Forrest: (voice-over) Momma always had a way of explaining things
so I could understand them.
EXT. OAK ALLEY/THE GUMP BOARDING HOUSE
Mrs. Gump and Forrest walk along a dirt road. A row of mailboxes stands
left.
Forrest: (voice-over) We lived about a quarter mile of Route 17,
about a half mile from the town of Greenbow, Alabama.
That's in the county of Greenbow. Our house had been in
Momma's family since her grandpa's grandpa's grandpa had
come across the ocean about a thousand years ago.
Something like that.
Mrs. Gump and Forrest walk along the Gump Boarding House driveway.
Forrest: (voice-over) Since it was just me and Momma and we had all
these empty rooms, Momma decided to let those rooms out.