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We had to read a story in 10th grade about this family that's out on a road trip when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. A car pulls up and the driver steps out to assist the family. However, the grandmother (who up to this point was doing nothing but bitch and whine about everything) recognizes the stranger as a wanted criminal she saw on TV and stupidly points this out to everybody. Which naturally results in the entire family being executed one-by-one because they're now witnesses.
A whole family erased, just because granny couldn't keep her fat mouth shut for 5 minutes.
Hadn't read it before, so I just did. (It's only 13 pages)
Fuck grandma.
Yeah, she was terrible throughout the whole story. Not one redeeming quality.
Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?
Yes, that's the one. I couldn't remember the name.
I forget a lot of it, except that last bit where the Misfit says something like “she could’ve been a good person if there’d been someone to shoot her every day of her life.”
Well that summary's an uncomfortable parallel for modern events