My Parents — Caught on Camera

This prompt comes from my good friend  <a href="https://medium.com/u/5e18e2e7bb93?source=post_page-----2bd68703d063--------------------------------" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Karen Schwartz</a> , who wants to know about “a time you caught your parents doing something they shouldn’t be doing.” Remember the old super 8 movie cameras from years ago? You know, the cameras with the giant flood lights. My dad and his brother both had one back in the early 1960’s and took a lot of pride in their home movies. In fact, we would have family movie nights when I was a kid. Pop some corn, mom. Dad’s getting out the projector. Here we go again. My uncle once caught my parents on film and dad, in a moment of rare spontaneity, gave mom a surprise kiss right there in our living room, made brighter than the sun by those floodlights. That kiss is preserved on film for the ages. My sister still has it. That single kiss, caught in blinding light, is one of the few times I ever saw them show any affection in public. So, this is not going to be any spicy story you can rush off to tell your friends. My parents were the two of the most privately affectionate people I’ve ever known. But I guess us three kids were hard evidence, no pun intended, they were affectionate on at least three occasions. <a href="https://medium.com/the-challenged/my-parents-caught-on-camera-2bd68703d063">Learn More</a>