“FRANCIS, WHAT’S A DINK?”

“FRANCIS, WHAT’S A DINK?” Our family has its own GODFATHER story. Mary Jane’s parents went to very few movies, but they went to and loved the GODFATHER. They urged us to see it because of the wedding scene, which they loved because it was a real Italian wedding. We eventually found out something that had happened when they saw the movie. You should know that my father-in-law was a very dignified quiet man and that my mother-in-law had a very loud voice. There came the moment in the movie when the Corleones are planning to plant a gun in the men’s room of a restaurant so that Michael Corleone can kill a rival mobster. It is a tense moment and the audience is quiet. There comes Sonny’s line (quotation here on imdb: “Hey, listen, I want somebody good – and I mean very good – to plant that gun. I don’t want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands, alright?” In the silence of the theater, my mother-in-law’s voice rang out: “Francis, what’s a dink?” And my father-in-law hunkered down in his seat.