/ believe it lady

an elderly black man with a cane walks out of burlington coat factory with an unpaid comforter and i have a moment to ponder my own mortality as the cashier chases after him, but instead choose to review in my mind a series of film motifs:

• a wealthy man loses all his money and in his homelessness discovers his purpose. he re-amasses his wealth by helping others and now has everything.

• a robot created by the government to kill falls into the possession of a lonely young woman and learns how to love. he destroys his military creators in a suicidal effort to save the girl, who confesses her own unlikely affection.

• a beautiful molecular biologist phd is desperate to be recognized for her intelligence, but is forced to do a table dance for a group of swarthy terrorists so that her misogynistic partner can sneak into their laboratory and upload a virus into their computer holding plans for a nuclear bomb.

• a boy who falls in love with every girl he meets realizes that he only truly loves himself and blames his mother as she lay dying of cancer. she slaps him and he says, 'i hate you,' but realizes he loves her as she passes into unconsciousness.

• a family must abandon a stray dog that wanders into their yard as they are moving because the new community doesn't allow pets. the dog goes on an amazing journey, teaming up with various other animal species who teach him the meaning of friendship, culminating with a happy reunion with his new family, the one who abandoned him. the other animals break out into a song and dance number.

• a woman wakes up from a coma 500 years in the future aboard a utopian space ship that escaped the destruction of earth. although what she remembers of Earth wasn’t perfect, it’s better than this, she thinks, as she throws herself into the carbon matter recycler.

• a couple avoids several engagements with friends and family they dislike by saying that their sick dog has just died. the animal makes a miraculous full recovery and they are forced to hide their dog from the outside world in a series of increasingly absurd antics.

• a group of unlikely tourists is trapped in a jungle where they must overcome their differences to defeat a giant reptile.

• a man dedicated to his career curses out a gypsy woman who casts a spell on him that transforms him into a young boy again. he befriends his own son and realizes what a prick he is as a father.

the cashier returns and completes my order, saying, 'i can't believe some people.'