What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

Here's how the conversation went down:

INT. Saab - Some lonely road in the Texas Hill Country

CHLOE (cute as a button, 6 years old) sits in the back seat looking at the pictures of an American Girl Magazine. DAD (Chloe's dad, aka ME) drives the Saab singing along to AC/DC.

CHLOE
Dad?

DAD
Yes, Sweetheart?

CHLOE
When you were 6, what did you want to be when
you grew up?

DAD
Batman!
(The Adam West "Bam, Boom" Batman was on every afternoon.)

CHLOE
Then what?

DAD
A stunt man!
(Loved the "Fall Guy".)

CHLOE
Then what?

DAD
A movie director.
(Raiders of the lost ark rocked. I wanted to be George Lucas and/or Spielberg)

CHLOE
Then what?

DAD
A drummer. A rockstar.
(Tommy Lee, Neil Pert, John Bonham, you pick.)

CHLOE
And then?

DAD
The President of the United States.
(My grandfather used to tell everyone that I would be some day.)

CHLOE
No Dad, when did you want to be something real, like an
Engineer?

DAD
Hmmmm, I don't know.


SO WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GREW UP WHEN YOU WERE 6?