Childhood

I have to give Alicia a Becky Hammon-style assist on this one. And yes, I went and checked to see who was leading the WNBA in assists. Turns out it's Becky Hammon. She's also putting up nearly 20 points a game, so I'd say she's pretty good. But I couldn't give Alicia the Steve Nash title I laid on my brother. That wouldn't have been fair.

Anyway, I won a citizenship award in third grade. I don't feel like I'd have any shot of winning that award today, so I kind of wonder how I gots it in the first place. Part of me is convinced it was a pity award. Alicia suggested I go back and ask my teachers. I don't remember their names and would feel awkward about doing that.

Instead, the whole conversation spawned another movie idea!

I'm thinking, Citizen of the Year as a title, or something more clever that someone else thinks of. Anyway, here's the generic plot. The main character is a total d-bag whose parents die and as he's going through their stuff he finds an award he won in the third grade for being a good citizen or something. He doesn't understand how he could possibly have won it and starts to wonder how his life got so far from that point. (I promise I didn't have all these thoughts myself, nor do I think of myself as a d-bag, by any means.) But anyway, genero-character starts talking to old teachers and old friends to figure out what he was like and why he won this stupid award all those years ago. He decides to be a better person and even starts falling in love with someone (Awwww). Meanwhile he has this tough call at work where he has to decide whether or not to fire a bunch of people. You know that because he has had this big discovery about himself he won't fire them, until he learns that everyone in his class got the same award! He'd probably learn this during a romantic scene with his new love who was also in his class and now teaches third grade herself.

So he flips out. He storms back to the big city to fire a bunch of people. But love interest shows up and tells him a cute story of something he did for her in third grade and he realizes he doesn't have to be an a-hole and saves everyone's job and there's your cliche, 50 million dollar movie.

Nailed it! Where's my Oscar?