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Would you have brought Del home?

posted 9 years ago by peterpulanski
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I wouldn't have. He couldn't get rid of the guy when he was traveling with him. I would have given him some money and maybe pointed him to a few shelters or job opportunities, but I wouldn't have brought him home.

[–] joemdec35 9 years ago

What a wonderful person you must be.

[–] haynese_98 9 years ago

I'd allow him in my home. I'd even give him a couple of turkeys.

Shall we play a game?

[–] fyfytj 9 years ago

I would feel bad about it, but I don't think I would invite him home. Maybe take him to a shelter nearby home and give him my phone number to keep in touch, but two days of acquaintance isn't enough time for me to trust a stranger in my house.

[–] jokeco68 9 years ago

If I was in Neil Page's situation, yes, of course, I would have.

Life is always intense for a repo man.

[–] tigger83138 9 years ago

Yep.

[–] Elephantlips 9 years ago

After all they had been through together, he had to. Only an insensitive asswipe would drop him at a shelter.

[–] karenjm1962 9 years ago

Yes, of course. He would have been able to have a nice hot shower, maybe done a load or two of laundry, enjoyed a nice turkey dinner with the fam, and maybe stayed a few days. Remember that he did have a job - he was a travelling salesman. He wasn't exactly poor; his expenses were covered... he just didn't have a brick and mortar place to call "home".
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[–] Movie_Riggs 8 years ago

I don't know about doing laundry. Remember that scene in Uncle Buck?

[–] TheUltimateHippo (2250) 7 years ago

Del was not homeless in the sense that he is living in a cardboard box under a bridge. He basically just spends all of his time travelling the country selling shower curtain rings and just lives in hotel room to hotel room. While he is by no means wealthy he certainly isn't poor (he clearly is a very talented salesman), he can clearly afford decent clothes, cabs, meals, etc. he just doesn't have a place that he calls home and I personally think he chooses to live that way. He wants to stay busy to keep his mind off of his deceased wife and he wants to make as many friends as he can all over the country so that he won't ever feel lonely. That is why he is such a nice guy and why he kept following Neal all over the place.

[–] weird_beard 9 years ago

Why not? It's not like everything that went wrong in the movie was even his fault.

[–] AndrewHNPX12 9 years ago

Yes. He may have been a nuisance at times, but he was clearly a good person who deserved to be treated as such.

I would have given him some money and maybe pointed him to a few shelters or job opportunities

Well this doesn't even really make much sense given what we know about Del. He may not have a "home" as he puts it, but he clearly made a living and we're to infer that being on the road all the time and not maintaining a permanent residence was a choice of his; there'd be no reason whatsoever to put him in a homeless shelter.