Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is such a fabulous film.

John Candy was great !

The action scenes too.
One time, I had to divert to JFK, and needed to share a cab to get back to where my car was at the Newark, NJ airport. Four people, all strangers, without a lot of money. We shared our cab. Our taxi got caught in traffic
“ close “ to the exit for the Newark airport. Naturally the taxi meter kept running. We compared our funds and voted to pay the driver and get out with our luggage on the side of a snowy slushy freeway and walk up to the exit and over to the airport. We did it, and it reminds me
of this movie.
Merry Christmas 🎄

merry Christmas back at cha' and that real life scene is scary:)

Great story. Thanks for sharing that.

Miny not many. I wish we could edit comments.

Hint hint :) You can ; What you do is with your mouse (left button hold down) swipe over your comment (it turns a brownish color). Then copy the selection and then delete your org comment and then paste your org comment and edit as needed

Wow, Mike that is so amazing! That must have been so cool to talk with him. And I do remember that part in the movie. I love that movie.🎅

Shep was first a humorist on WOR radio, from the 50's to early 80's, every night he'd
tell stories like the several he melded together to make the Christmas Story.
He wrote many books as well of short stories. Lots of material there for sequels to
A Christmas Story, I am surprised some smart producer hasn't jumped at the chance.

Great story! He was a great story teller. I have listened to him in otr. I believe he had a show for years. I read his book too. It was interesting that stories were mashed together for the movie.

I love it too!

Mrs. Harris,
I'm not surprised you heard him up in the Great White North, WOR is one of the most powerful stations in North America. At 10:15 at night Shep's program was heard in many places far beyond
its normal signal range as many stations signed off earlier in the evening.
Plus local stations in far off areas also ran it.
He did a TV series for New Jersey Public television. He considered the state "America writ
small", with its varied geography and many different types of people with traditional
heartland festivals like the Flemington Fair which he immortalized in a much lauded
Playboy article.
On more than one occasion he talked about my hometown of Westfield deeming it the
beginning of "John Cheever Country" that ran up to Conn.
He enjoyed doing his talks at Jersey venues, I saw him at Princeton, Union College,
he came to the small auditorium every year at Summit High because he loved the
town. He did a whole show on Route 22 and the Leaning Tower of Pizza as emblematic
of what he lovingly called "slob culture".

Me too.