DRIVING TO O'HARE (4/18/96)

both of them are in the backseat my mother-in-law and her comadre going back to California for a funeral it was kind of like driving miss daisy times two but this is my good deed for the month and i feel alright about it they have their rituals while behind the drivers wheel i hear the unsnapping of wallets, the sound of unfolding plastic as they bring out their pictures play each one like a card in a game of poker "this is lori, sandy s daughter, she graduated from . . . she is a . . . she makes x amount a year . . . her husband is going to teach . . . they bought a new house" "how nice . . . she looks like sandy . . . this is chuckie . . . tommy's oldest... he owns a construction company ... he built me a new kitchen . . . these are his kids . . . this one gets all as" they do this for quite awhile until they realize they've both been around long enough not to be able to outdo the other