Vacuums

By Matt Reed. My Dad had a wonderful belly laugh.  I couldn’t always predict when it would happen.  The laugh made an impressive appearance when we were watching Airplane II, of all things.  In an early scene, Robert Hays sees a door on the plane marked “Danger: Vacuum.”  He opens the door cautiously, only to be assaulted by a vacuum hose and nozzle that try to wrestle him to the floor.  My Dad laughed as hard as I had ever seen him.  Other people in the theater actually turned around.  Thirty-something years later, I remember it vividly. Read more...