So I've been watching "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" last night/this morning. (How can you not at Thanksgiving if you own the DVD and a working DVD player?)
And I have a question for anyone else familiar with the film. For as uncomfortable as the situation was that led Neal Page (Steve Martin) and Del Griffith (John Candy) to start talking macho about the play of the Chicago Bears, how is it that Neal didn't notice that nearly all of the towels in that Wichita motel-room bathroom - including all of the full-sized bath towels - had already been used by Del (implied) before Neal began taking a shower?
For everything leading up to that Chicago Bears moment - "I am sorry. I had no idea those beer cans were going to blow like that." "What did you think was going to happen? You put them on a vibrating bed." - wasn't it a creepier thought that Del would have gone to use the sink and almost all of the towels while the guy sharing his room - a near-total stranger at that point in the story, really - was in the shower?
Thankfully, of course, they both made their way back to Chicago as better people and were welcomed by a family for Thanksgiving dinner.
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