The short story is about a family that is getting ready to leave the house for a road trip to Florida. The granny disapproves the trip , partially due to the fact that a criminal, The Misfit, is on the loose , somewhere in Florida. She prefers going to Tennessee, but nobody seems to want to go. Her son doesn't care about her want and just want to leave.On the road, the granny who doesn't know when and how to shut up, keeps going on and on about how people nowadays don't know how to be respectful toward the elders. Somewhere during the trip, she believes that there is a house she visited a while back around the corner and wants to go visit again. She tricks the kids into forcing her son to drive there. On the way there she realized she made a huge mistake about the location of the house and by the time she tried to say something, they have an accident. They stop a passing by car, with the intention of asking for help. It turns out that one of the passengers in the car is the Misfit and Granny who doesn't know how to shut up, says it out loud. He then proceeds on killing the entire family. The story ends while he orders his gunmen to taker her away and kill her too. The significant characters are the Granny, The misfit, John Wesley and June Star. The themes are family, murder, moral.
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