#4
My car broke down again. But I'm not going to focus on that. Nope. Nuh-uh. Instead I'm going to focus on the fact that I'm getting that job. Yup. That's what I'm going to do.
This week's movie, to keep up with the holiday spirit: A Christmas Story.
Said to be the funniest Christmas movie of all time, this movie is set in the 1940's, and Ralphie Parker has to convince his parents and Santa that an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model BB rifle with a compass in the stock would be the best present ever. Between his younger brother Randy and having to handle school bully Scott Farkus, Ralphie doesn't know how he'll ever survive long enough to get the BB gun. When Ralph asks his mother for a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, she says, "No, you'll shoot your eye out". When Mrs. Shields, Ralph's teacher at Harding Elementary School, assigns the class to write an essay about what they want for Christmas, Ralph sees a golden opportunity to express his desire to have a Red Ryder BB gun. Ralph gets a C+, and Mrs. Shields has written "You'll shoot your eye out" on the theme. Ralph's next plan is to ask Santa Claus for a Red Ryder BB gun, and how does Santa respond? By saying "You'll shoot your eye out, kid." By this time, Ralph has had enough of that. When Scott Farkus and his sidekick Grover Dill start in on Ralph while he's on his way home from school that day, Ralph knocks Grover Dill to the ground, beats Scott's face bloody, and then pounds Scott's head on the snow-covered ground several times. Ralph thinks he'll never get the BB gun for Christmas now. And all of the other kids are going to be getting what they want for Christmas. But someone may have planned a surprise for Ralph.
All in all, it's a fun-filled tribute to an all-American Christmas.