Uncle Buck

I don’t know what to say about this movie. I have to tell my “driver school” story though. A few years back, I got a speeding ticket. It was a sunny California day, and I was headed to Santa Cruz down highway 17. The cop said I was going “80+”. He wrote me a ticket, gave me a speech, got back in his vehicle, and pulled-over another car before I could even figure out what was going on. In order to keep the ticket off my insurance record, I agreed to go to a day of traffic school. It was essentially one day of jail – I was stuck in a hotel conference room with a dozen others and couldn’t leave – a day down the toilet. A strange thing happened there though… Throughout the day, the “instructor” played the movie Uncle Buck on the video player. Every time we got back from a break, we’d see another 15-20 minutes of the movie. I wasn’t sure if it was some kind of way to keep us coming back (after all the movie is so compelling!), or if there was some kind of subliminal “drive safely!” message contained within Uncle Buck. Maybe it worked, I haven’t had a ticket since then.