Warning: the links are sound bites. I think Ferris Bueller's Day Off is an American classic I'll just say that right off the bat. You might think I'm a little behind the times, given the movie was released in 1986, but a classic it is and still worthy of attention. For the two people on the planet who haven't seen it, Ferris Bueller is a wise-ass high school kid who manipulates his parents and friends in masterful ways in order to get a day off of school . It's sunny, it's spring, and youthful exuberance is a strong motivator. His best friend Cameron is home sick, and they conspire together to have Ferris' girlfriend Sloane sent home early. The three renegades take Cameron's father's prized car to Chicago for the day, while Ferris' bitter sister and Principal Ed Rooney scour the town looking for the absent Ferris . Several years before this film, 1981 actually, I was attending a branch of Purdue University in Michigan City, Indiana, which was a ...