The family converged to help Max and Jennie load their possessions into a trailor, to be towed to Florida behind Saul's car.

The family recorded the process in the form of a screenplay.

MAX: Jennie, please, why are you taking down all these schmaters? Let's not take all this junk and load up the apartment down there.

JENNIE: Please, Max, don't tell me what to take. They are not schmaters. I am positively taking only what I need. (Fran  –to herself– and that means everything).

MAX: Jennie, why are you taking down this vicker [wicker] magazine basket? We don't need it.

JENNIE: Please, Max, I want it. Besides, Georgie brought it back for us from Cape Cod.

(Georgie and Fran had brought it back seven years before.)

MAX: Okay, Jennie, take it, but please don't take the magazines that are in it. (They compromise: The five-year-old magazines stay behind, the basket goes.)

SAUL: Ma, why are you schlepping this ironing board? You will need it while you are in New York. But you'll need another one down there.

MAX: Jennie, he is right.

JENNIE: Okay, we will buy another one but I'm positively taking the toaster. (All agree).

JENNIE: Sher-up a minute. I'm thinking. I think I packed in mostly everything. We still have the clothes.

FRAN: (Aside to herself) I better see if the kitchen sink has been unhitched.

SAUL: Well, it seems we have everything except the clothes. Okay mom, get dressed, we are all going out to dinner.

JENNIE: (Aghast, disturbed, turning whiter than Milk Glass) Nothing doing, you are not going to do that to me again. I have cheese, sour cream and a few pieces of chicken in the refrigrator.

FRAN: Again!!! Are you serious? In all thirteen years I've been in this family, never, never once have we all come to Jennie's house that we went down like Menchen and had dinner. Never, never. What do you mean, we can't do that to you again. (stamping of feet!)

SAUL: Get dressed, Ma, because I don't know what everyone else is doing but I and the boys are going down for something to eat.

BEN: Flo and I are going down to eat something.

HERB: Norma and I are joining you.

GEORGIE: Fran and I will go down to the boulevard with you.

FRAN: There's a lovely restaurant called The Turnpike right on Queen's Boulevard that has everything you want. Fish, Dairy, Meat, Deli, etc., etc.

(All in unison: Okay! Lets get something to eat.  We are all starved!)

MAX: Jennie, please, ti zich un. (It's happening.) Throw on a cladel ("little", i.e. casual clothing). We all worked so hard, why make more work, we'll go out and eat. Okay, but I don't like it. What will I do with the food, throw it out?

FRAN: Invite the relatives tomorrow; they'll help you clean it out.

SAUL: Okay, now let's get the clothes into the trailer. I have a bar that goes from one end to another and we can just take them out of the closet and hang them right on the bar in the trailer. There is plenty of room.

JENNIE: Now, wait a minute. Wouldn't it be better to pack them in suitcases. (Jennie has a reputation for making the terribly simple into the most difficult situation.) What if they get dirty?

BEN: They wouldn't get dirty, we can throw sheets right over the clothes. This is the very best way to do it.

SAUL: Of course this is the best way. Let's get the clothes out.

JENNIE: But I don't know which clothes to take.

NORMA: Take everything. You will be there for many months and probably will need most everything except for your very heavy clothing, heavy coats and so on.

ALL: Yes, yes, take everything, it will be much simpler.

(So with the exception of extremely heavy outerwear, most of Max and Jennie's clothes are removed from the closet and put into the trailer.)

JENNIE: What if someone breaks into the trailer?

SAUL: Don't worry mom, it has a very, very, heavy lock and all thru the trip, the trailer will be with us and at night, very close to us when we stop at the motels.

(Jennie still looks like a Doubting Thomas but under the circumstances, there is nothing she can do. All agree to finish packing that night so Saul can get started right away at seven o'clock in the morning when he wants to.)

(Mom is in the kitchen packing up the food stuff in a box.)

JENNIE: Fran, here is a little jar of split peas and stuff for soup that you can use.

FRAN: I don't make soup, ma.

JENNIE: You mean you never make soup? The kids don't eat soup?

FRAN: Sure they eat soup. I open up a delicious can of Campbell's soup.

JENNIE: Okay, here take the jar of split peas.

FRAN: (Taking the jar and thinking to herself) I'll take the peas. When I go to my mother in the country, I'll give her the jar with the split peas so she should make soup.

(All of a sudden there is a scream from the kitchen. Saul comes running out with a carton in his hand containing food stuffs.)

SAUL: What's the matter with you Ma? You're not taking down to Florida 1/4 lb. sugar, 1/2 jar vanilla, 2 oz. salt and 1/3 jar honey etc., etc., etc. You'll buy everything down there nice and fresh.

JENNIE: But, but, Solenu, it's a naverra. What can I do with the food? It will spoil up here.

SAUL: No it won't. And if it does, you will throw it out. (Jennie turns ashen white at this thought.)

(Saul feels bad and they reach a compromise. The food that might spoil they take. Other boxes and jars that can stay remains in the closet.)

There was one very touching scene that got even me, Francela, at the very end of the evening. We are saying our goodbyes to everyone. Joe and Rose [Joseph Levitt, Max's brother, and his wife] are also. leaving. I saw Joe go over and shake hands with Pop and kiss him. When Joe turned around there were great big tears in his eyes and it touched me terribly. I could never stand to see a man cry and these were so genuine. I realized how lonely he must feel and how terrible that your father, who is actually his only other relative (besides his children) in New York, will be going away for such long stretches at a time. Certainly there will be many months elapsing between trips that your folks make back to New York. Anyhow I felt sorry for Joe and hope that circumstances are such with him that he will be able to make a trip now and then during the winter to see your folks. Certainly once they are there, your folks would be delighted to have them stay at their house. Anyhow, it was a touching scene and of course your mother started to vane a bissel [cry a little]