OK, I promised an update on the Spumoni Gardens Yard Sale...and so heres some highlights in no particular order:
1. The best dialogue (verbatim):
Customer: " Is this wall piece made of oak?"
Vin: "Its three dollars." (Vin is gifted in the art of sarcasm.)
2. Second best dialogue:
Vin: (motions his head to a woman in a bad wig. He then whistles the tune to the Adams Family and then he says aloud...) "Hey Vito, Methusela."
3. Now John thinks I'm lying about this but I will take a polygraph test: I caught Uncle Vito happily singing along the words to Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart". He sang the opening perfectly: "Got a wife and kid in Baltimore, Jack. I went out for a ride and I never came back..."
4. A homeless looking shopper chewed my father down from 3 bucks to 2 on a $200 grinder and then got in his $100,000 SUV and pulled away. Vin's reaction "You gott a be jokin..."
5. Weirdest occurrence: a shopper ran over a huge and poisonous copperhead snake in our driveway. First time I'd ever seen one in almost 12 years in Florida. Wanna know how I disposed of it? Wrapped it around a stick and flung across the street onto the church's property. I figure its less sacriligious than launching flaming golfballs at a house of worship.