Synopsis of while the auto waits

There was a girl with a large meshed veil hangs over her

face. When she turns a page the book slips from her hand and

a young man pounces upon it. He returns it to her with a

gallant and hopeful air. The girl thank the young man. The

young man sits near the girl as she said. The young

man confesses to the girl that he had an eye on her before the

day. The young man name is Parkenstaker and the

girl didn't tell her name cause she said that her name is on the

paper that would recognize immediately. She said that

Parkenstacker should have seen thechauffeur staring at them.

They talk about wealthy life. The young man said that he works

in the restaurant notas a waiter but as the cashier. The

girl consults her watch set in a bracelet of rich design.

She tells Parkentacker that she is late for an important

engagement. Parkenstacker want to walk with

 her because it's getting dark, but the girl insists. Suddenly a

waitress approaches and said to the girl that she is late to her

work. The girl said the she didn'tknow the waitress, maybe the

waitress is wrong. The waitress apologizes

to parkenstacker who is on the social pages. The

girl rushes off close to the waitress and her book drop again.

The young man picks it up and return it to the girl, but they

are gone. The chauffeur aprroches Parkenstacker and said that

he had a dinner reservation

Driving Miss Daisy

After backing her car over a hedge into the neighbor's yard in the tamest car accident scene on
celluloid (where's Michael Bay to throw in some explosions when you need 'em?), 72-year-old
Miss Daisy Werthan, a Real Widow of Atlanta, finds herself without a car. Her son, Boolie,
who has no desire to see the citizens of Atlanta diving away from his mom's Chrysler screaming
down the street like a stray missile, buys her a new car and hires her a driver: a black man
named Hoke Colburn.

Miss Daisy doesn't like him.

To be fair, she doesn't seem to like anyone. But she's extra salty toward Hoke, snapping at him
over the most innocuous offenses, like talking to her maid, Idella, or dusting her lightbulbs.

No, that isn't a euphemism.

She won't let him drive her anywhere, not even to the Piggly Wiggly. When Daisy needs
groceries at the Piggly Wiggly, she takes the trolley to the Piggly Wiggly, and carries her
shopping bags all the way home from the Piggly Wiggly. We just like saying "Piggly Wiggly."

One day, while Miss Daisy walks to the Piggly Wiggly, Hoke follows her in the car. She
relents, getting into the backseat and allowing him to drive her to the Piggly Wiggly. (Okay,
we'll stop saying Piggly Wiggly now.) Her stubborn façade is beginning to crack. They hit a
few detours, like when Miss Daisy accuses Hoke of stealing a can of salmon. But there's
nothing fishy about it. He ate it, and he replaces it. She's ashamed. From then on, they're on the
road to friendship despite the differences in their social class.

Over the years, Daisy and her dusty bulbs warm to Hoke. She helps the illiterate man get
hooked on phonics, and he drives her to a birthday party all the way down yonder in Mobile,
Alabama. Their road trip crosses a few speed bumps. First, they're briefly stopped by racist cops
in Alabama. Then, almost late to Daisy's brother's party, she won't let Hoke stop to "make
water." Tired of being treated as less than human, he pulls the car over and heads into the
woods. She's ashamed again. Maybe she's starting to understand that he isn't just her servant,
but he's a person too?

Not quite.

They continue to live their separate-but-not-quite-equal lives. Idella dies and they attend her
funeral service. Boolie gives Hoke a raise. Hoke attempts to identify with Daisy when her
Jewish temple is bombed, but she still thinks that the attack on her temple and the story he tells
—about his childhood friend's father being lynched—are two totally different things.

Daisy thinks she's enlightened and unprejudiced. She attends a speech by Martin Luther King,
Jr., and insults Hoke when she sort-of asks if he wants to go on the way there. Offended, he tells
her that she may "talk about things changing, [but] they ain't changed all that much." When Dr.
King's speech rails against good people who sit back and allow blacks to be mistreated, Daisy
feels—you guessed it—ashamed.

Soon, things do change for Daisy. She begins a descent into dementia, thinking she's a
schoolteacher again. After Hoke comforts her, she takes his hand and tells him that he's her best
friend. She's eventually put in an old folks' home, where Hoke visits her a couple years later
with Boolie.
At the home, Hoke sits with Daisy and feeds her a slice of pumpkin pie. She seems happy to be
in the company of her BFF, and she fondly remembers the time when he first drove her in the
red Hudson automobile.