It Pours

"It Pours"
Tim Parrish

"Why you think your daddy does his car like that?" I asked. "You know, starting it and all at the same time?" "I don't know. Ask him." Donny spat again arching a white glad into the swirling water where it circled and went down. "Didn't he start after Tootsie got busted?" I asked. "Maybe. Why's your old man keep shoveling the drain?"

I chose this passage because in the beginning of the story a lot of detail about the two families were given. It seamed like the two were more similar that they realized. Both families have two sons far a part in age. For one reason or another, both families' older sons were out of the house. Both fathers had a strange habit; one starting and stopping a car and the other shoveling a drain. It seems to me that both fathers continued with their habit because they were worried about their son that wasn't home. Tootsie's father started working on the car when he left and Bob's father goes outside when the news is on because the news reminds him of his son.

This quote made me realize that while I can see the similarities, the two families could not. Both families thought the other family was odd. In this quote the two young boys ask each other why their father does what they do.

I thought this was funny because they say you never really know what someone is going through until you've walked a mile in their shoes. In this case, however, both people are wearing the same shoes and don't realize it. I know that Bob left the house for an honorable reason, but both father's still care about their sons and worry about their safety when they are not home.