Vignette

I love peoples' old home movies. I can watch them for hours.  I love looking at old family photo albums, whether they're mine or someone elses.' Old slide shows, too.  It's fascinating to me to see family histories in images.  Geek.

I also love family stories; elderly folks doing the telling is even more special.

Every family has vignettes and sound bites that vividly illustrate the fabric of their lives; bright threads that twist and interweave and can, in the telling and retelling, become perhaps family legend

or infamy

or brilliance

or not.

For instance, below is a submission of a scene marital:  Witness..

Bobo, Ruthie and their three kids on an outing.  The destination involves many freeway transitions.  Bobo is a speeder and a tail-gater (much to Ruthie's consternation) and after an hour or so of  witnessing Bobo speed to get to the rear bumper of the next car in front, and the next car and the next, Ruthie speaks: 

"You know, by law, you must leave a car-length for every ten miles of speed between you and the car in front." 

Bobo:    "No.  It's just a car-length.  Period." 

Ruthie:  "No. Really.  It's for stopping safety, and it allows for lane changes."

Bobo:    "What? Are you crazy?"  That means everyone can cut in front of me."

Ruthie: 

Bobo:   "It MEANS, Mrs Know-it-All, if I did THAT, I'd wind up (jabs his thumb back over his shoulder) way back there somewhere."

Ruthie: 

Curtain.