Barney has a long history of traffic infractions, and he was shown recently to be uncomfortable with the manual transmission in the sports car. Plus, he managed to get their huge SUV (a converted armored car) stuck under a low bridge a while back.
It’s been the policy from the beginning of his illness that Eb is the one who laughs at his own misfortune. It’s really the only way it can work. Makes one recall Art Buchwald, who laughed all the way through his mortal illness, even leaving hospice because he fooled himself by living so long.
It’s a conspiracy. She’s the only person in the family who knows his diagnosis. Eb fears that Sonny will put him away somewhere to vegetate. Anyway, Eb is till competent. No doubt he has an advance directive.
Hans Gruber has sunk to the level of scattering shopping carts around parking lots to impede cars. (“Yippee Ki Yay,”, a sad reminder that Bruce Willis is in far worse shape than Eb.)
All David Clark. Some dead tree papers used to print only B&W dailies. Don’t know if that is still true.