That's part one of this- Tina from age 13 up to 33. And any teenager who shows up at AA today could be handed a Young People in AA pamphlet that starts with Tina's story. It's like a Bible thumper, except with The Big Book. She quoted The Big Book- that's the official AA book, so much, that people in AA called her a Big Book thumper. AA saved Tina's life by the grace of God, or whatever higher power you choose. Almost 700,000 teenage alcoholics in the US, according to most recent government statistics. And if you're wondering, yes, teenagers can be alcoholics. So Tina got AA famous as Tina D, the girl who got sober when she was 13, and could tell the hell out of her story. It's just that I've been traveling into the future at 60 minutes per hour. And now she's married and I'm not, but I'm really happy we're not together.Īnd it makes me realize that I have been time traveling. It took about two years, maybe longer, to understand that. I'd picture it all the time.Īnd then, just little by little, there wasn't any big epiphany or anything, I came to see that things were never really right between us and that they never would have been. I would sit and pray that I could have that weekend to do over again. And after talking for two days, I finally said that I wasn't ready to be with her.Īnd for a long time after that, I wished I had made the opposite decision, that I had told her yes instead of no. So I flew to Alaska for the weekend to visit her.
I was with a woman, and we needed to decide about our future. There was this point when I obsessively wanted to go back in time to a very particular moment in time, to fix the past. Whereas I'm one of those people who's thought about this a lot. And if you read through the whole thing, there's this kind of bizarre finding at the end, something small, something that caught the interest of producers Sean Cole and Jonathan Goldstein. So there were questions like, would you eat meat that was grown in a lab? Would you get a brain implant to improve your mental capacity? The answer is yes and yes to those, of course. They asked them what new technological advances they expected to see in the future, and what technological advances they wanted to see. Maybe 1,001 just seemed sexier or something. I do not understand why it's 1,001 and not just 1,000. And basically, they called up 1,001 Americans. There was this study done by the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian Magazine back in February, published in April. So now a story about people who want to take a different kind of leap, a kind of quantum leap, you could say. For the rest of his life, he was that guy who took a city bus to Florida.Īct Two, Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads. He took a huge leap, fled home, cut out on his job, committed a crime, and he got away with it, because people loved the story. In the end, William Cimillo was incredibly lucky. One article reported that after school let out, 350 screaming high school girls tried to get onto his 44-seat bus, ignoring three other buses. On his first day back on the route, a line of people waited to ride Cimillo's bus. Not only that, they gave him his job back.
The court of public opinion was delivering its verdict, and soon, the Surface Transportation System of New York decided to drop the charges. Letters and telegrams of support came in from around the country. He was facing up to 10 years in prison.Ĭimillo's fellow New York City bus drivers- who you'd think would be the least sympathetic people in the country to his whole joyride- they organized a fundraiser to pay his legal fees. Cimillo did to escape the same kind of boredom that fills their ordered lives." Cimillo was indicted on charges of grand larceny. Who hasn't yearned for escape, for change, for fairer scenes?"įrom as far away as Michigan, The Traverse City Eagle wrote, "Across the nation today, thousands of office workers and laborers went to their humdrum jobs with hearts a little lighter, because of what William L. The Daily News wrote, "It must've been a wonderful trip, and we hope Bill's boss will try to understand." From the New York World-Telegram, "We know just how he felt.
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