Knocked up? Knocked up ain't in it.

He's gonna see his old lady and she's gonna tell him to get lost. If there was something in there about "years are saved up for a down payment on a cottage in North Burnaby like summer wages", then that wouldn't be so sad. But both the wages and the woman are gambled and gone. He'll sign on for a long slow trip to Bella Coola and back and he'll blow the advance that shoulda gone for rain gear and work boots on draft at twenty cents a glass. By the time he's drunk enough to want a woman he won't even have the twenty bucks for a french and a fuck.