[Miami Memoirs] Ruby's dad lectures her on the dangers of driving a car in Miami while being a woman

Clips from Miami Memoirs (1987)

[@analielally6627]

This is my father exactly. Makes up anything to justify his decisions. Then goes way of topic. The battle can never be won.

[@lindabrown0]

I've just watched "Who do you think you are" Ruby Wax and it explains a lot about her parents. The way they were wasn't funny at all but likely to be as a result of experiences in Europe in 1938 and her mother's mental illness..............Mental illness ran in her mother's family and Ruby is affected also............

[@huub1989]

linda brown indeed, I just watched Ruby's WDYTYA and it was moving to see her discover the mental illness that pervaded her family. Many of the US WDYTYA are obsessed with proving they are related to George Washington, were Pilgrim descendants, were descendants of Civil War heroes or the Salem Witches, it was refreshing to see something real and painful ( not that I'd wish that pain on anyone) because our histories are sometimes painful and we are not all descended from ideal ancestors but flesh and blood people who often suffered.

[@joshuataylor6087]

I watched the episode too. I've heard that it takes 4 generations for the trauma of the holocaust and trauma in general to leave a family. The trauma gets passed on to each generation.

[@tek5692]

I just came here from watching that... it was very moving.

[@disneydancer8392]

i have tried to watch WDYTYA and i can not find it anywhere if someone can point me in the right direction or has it please let me know!

[@lindsaybagwell7988]

​@@joshuataylor6087 I'm glad you mention trauma the whole family were traumatised which is not an illness though the 2 may coincide the former seems more likely

[@RioBow]

Ive just watched Ruby on Who do you think you are. its a tv show all about Family History. And listening to her father go on about saftey and such. With what we now know what he and his wife went through. But for the grace of God go i.

[@Rogerthatx10]

Lmao with the standing up..."Easy Ruby, Easy! You don't vant to go to Fort Lauderdale..." "Call the police and ask them if it is okay if a stranger can go to Fort Lauderdale!"

[@storybellz]

I like her dad. He's funny and he's looking after her.

[@frozenwarning]

Wow, he’s getting Ruby so worked up! She’s huffing and puffing and standing and sitting, and just obviously in so much stress!

[@Oughut88]

The anxiety.

[@rachaelsas]

OMG! Lmao, poor Ruby, this is so funny, and I thought my parents drive me nuts!!!! :-P thanks for posting this dude, I am so grateful :-)

[@lindsaybagwell7988]

sad more than funny when you know to heir stories but I guess partly amusing

[@bagofhammers7479]

Lmao I think Ruby's mother was responsible for the plastic covering the furniture. She was obsessed with cleanliness

[@YourJellyFishAteMyTV]

After the louis podcast, I dunno, I just think of her mum and dad leaving her at the swimming pool saying get yourself to the airport.. you can see in mates face how she feels about her mum and dad

[@tresslercreed]

What was that sound? Was the furniture covered in upside-down scotch tape?

[@Schulz1362]

Plastic covers. My grandma had plastic covers on all of her furniture, but I grew up in the 60's & 70's.

[@pattyHK]

yes, so did i. Remarkable how we all think our family is normal until we start living independently and see a bit of the world. I quite understand the rigor mortis in Florida!

[@joshuataylor6087]

That's so true. It can take years until you mentally disconnect from them too and see how crazy they are.

[@priscillavelazquezs]

I watched who do you think you are. I’m sorry for all you went through! I admire so much about you. Im nobody to say, but it seems they loved you in their own way. On another note, my Miami mom, gets so nervous and upset when I borrow her car to go to Hialeah on the expressway, even worse! Fort Lauderdale, which she thinks is just too too far lol. Can you imagine when in my thirties I mentioned driving to Pompano beach for a conference lol 😅

[@dxmxo9427]

They all had mental illness in that family..even ruby

[@epflrz1625]

Oy Gevalt!

[@foxibot]

They have plastic all over the furniture. Hilarious, sweet though how they were concerned.

[@priscillavelazquezs]

Your mom is so beautiful!

[@stevegreen9460]

I can totaly understand where hers dads coming from. he dose have a point about taking wrong turns in that city. he is abit over paranoid yes. but he strikes me as someone who knows all to well the buden of life long pain from feeling like you could have done more or at the very least not played any even so much as unserpecting part in something terrible that might happen. I think this is what ruby cant seem to understand. its about what her dad and can and cant live with on his own mind. thats a massive thing to live with. not to be taken lightly. yer hes a man who has leanred the hard way about that.

[@stevegreen9460]

its not the point.

[@johnmacward]

This is not justified, this is extreme anxiety and a form of control that needs help in resolving itself. Her Dad is an extreme anxious case and like lots of anxiety sufferers, finds just about any activity to be fraught with peril. We can clearly see Ruby is a fully grown woman here capable of taking her own risks. He needed help here, just like her mother I believe who was equally as bad, if not worse from Ruby’s stories.

[@stevegreen9460]

no I think you are all missing the point, he is simply not wanting to have any part in something that would be heart breaking for him regardless of how remote the chance may be. this is a jewish man who narrowly escaped from the a german govermant that was going to kill him and all his loveded ones, after he got out he was trying to get his other family member out of germany but was unable to in time. those family members were then murdered. life expirace like this will stay with you your hole life. I would think he carriers a great pain in him over what happend even if there was nothing he could have done, he will still carry a massive amount of guilt that he couldnt help save his famliy from being murderd and will always torment himself that he could have done something diffrently.

[@redemption843]

Totally agree. Ruby may well cringe at this now. Meditation and mindfulness has calmed her down a lot. Just caring parents. This is quite an old video.

[@frankf198]

He escaped with only his life from nazi in Austria you can see why he’s careful

[@joanketelby752]

Their furniture is covered in plastic.

[@marc44444]

they're preserving it for the afterlife. or was that morty and sylvia. i forget

[@elizaveta9571]

Her mother had OCD.

[@CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon]

I wish I had his tan.

[@SuzanneBaruch]

Every single Jewish woman has had this same argument with her parents no matter where she lives 😂

[@frankiemorris5866]

😂👍

[@siennas3186]

Her parents actually seem kinda nice. lol

[@DovZeev]

😅🤣