What kind of a kid were you?

If you haven't read my reasons to easily figure out one thing -- movies. I was around 4 when a rattlesnake screamed onto the movie theatre where I lived. Living in a small town of around 895 or so people, you can picture small town life. By the time we moved to a city, I was 12 and discovered 4 tv channels and I was in heaven.

I was always looking for movies and TV series, westerns, detectives, anything. My aunt said I would probably hurt my eyes on our TV. But she lost, as I still have perfect eyes because of on eye being short-sighted and the other one is far-sighted. Believe it or not.

I wrote short stories in early grades, mostly bad, but still wrote. And see movies. Not to mention that Detroit was across the river. A whole new country and also relatives too. Living with two cities, one was Canadian and the other was American. I still watched movies and TV.

When I graduated school I went to Detroit to get interested more on their side. And it was just beginning of the Beatles. And I became even more side-by-side and was falling for a psych student. U.S. of course.

Then - one summer I was looking for a job. I'd had the usual office boy for the summer but noticed something. The local TV station had an opening for office boy, full time. This was almost a miracle. Maybe. I decided I'd take the job and at the end of summer go back to the Detroit college. 

Did I want the job? Not really but it could be fun with lots of different jobs, editing, mail-boy and possibly something else. So I showed up and met the boss who said the job is permanent.

Permanent? What about the psych student? I went home and pondered.

Then on the next Monday I entered the TV station. Someone guided me through the building and I would do various smalltime jobs. I was taken to the mail room and began sorting. Then I walked into the studio and stood there in shock.

I was looking at what made movies.

I couldn't believe it. It was a connection of the heart as they say. Me and those cameras. And all the other stuff. I was in the movies.

Well, sort of. I was in the movie business as a mail boy. I wondered how long this would take. I was beginning to like everything there.