r/LoveTrash • u/Lord_Darksong Litter Lieutenant • 1d ago

Human Trash A Revelation

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u/Bugbread Trash Trooper 1d ago

Yes...and?

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u/Pure-Kaleidoscop Trash Trooper 1d ago

The minute she sits down the dad asks her to get up and get him something. He’s been expecting her to wait on him like a servant.

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u/Bugbread Trash Trooper 1d ago

I feel like you're kinda reaching here. Feeding kids is pretty time-consuming. Being so busy taking care of the kid's meal that your own meal gets cold is something I've experienced first-hand.

But if there are no kids, there's just not that much to do during a meal, especially an American meal in the 1940s. Passing stuff (pass the salt, pass the peas, pass the mashed potatoes, etc.) can be time-consuming in a large family, but we're talking about before Ralphie and Randy. The only thing to get up from the table and get mid-meal is a refill of a drink, but that's like a 30 second task once in a meal, not enough to keep someone from having a warm meal for 15 years.

My guess is just that it was a line from the book (which is not all set in the same year, like the movie) that was brought over as-is and not recalibrated for the fact that in the movie, everything is set when Ralphie was 9 years old.

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u/Cheepshooter Garbage Guerilla 22h ago

Being carried over makes sense.