dayton is not in ohio

In a recent post I mentioned that my parents were on an American Airlines plane whose engine caught fire and almost crashed. When they finally arrived in Chicago the news crews were waiting to interview passengers. Well the ABC affiliate in Chi-Town decided to do a little vignette on my folk’s reunion with their granddaughter.

Now, usually the excitement surrounding being ‘on the news’ amounts to a whopping 1.3 seconds of screen time, and turns the family gathering around the TV into an inevitably anti-climatic moment. There’s a pause for a moment, then someone says something nice about it, but no one says how really disappointing it can be to have minutes of interview time turned into a one word quip. Who’s to complain? It’s better than nothing. I had prepared myself for a flash of screen time for Anna and the folks…

And speaking of disappointingly brief exposure, if you look really closely, there’s a part where I’m on my cell phone and you can briefly see one half of a Rob Matthews drawing on the wall behind me…