so I’m splitting my attention between the birds @ the bird-feeder (splashing around in the birdbath in the heavy winds & sprinkling rain) & The Last Days of Chez Nous on IFC, & there, within a scene of a youthful 40ish woman and a set-put old man (her dad) tooling down a desert hwy. in a beat little yellow sedan, is perhaps the nexus of why mankind is in the shitter at this point in the 21st Century:
The crotchety ol’ grouch in the passenger seat is struggling to open a bag of chips while the cheery woman is driving their right-hand drive vehicle…, listening to the radio song and enjoying the flat hearthstone vistas. Out of the corner of her eye she sees the ol’ man fighting with the bag, reaches over and takes the bag and tears it open easily with her teeth and smiles at him as she attempts to hand it back. Well…I’ll bet you can guess what the ol’ stick-in-the-mud does next. He sneers at her and discounts both the bag of chips and the goodwill, shrugs & rebuffs her cutesy kindness & looks off down the road. Denying himself both the snack & the opportunity to warm his daughter’s heart with a smile.
Jeez, man, just thank her…& share the chips!
She’s both beautiful …& clever.
Unreal, this so-called evolution of man.
No wonder so many of our friends are divorced.
