NEW YORK—Girl gives a boy a lucky rock. Boy buys her a rose in return. The plant nursery makes him buy the whole tiny rosebush, and delivers it on a giant forklift. His car breaks down, stranding him roadside, bush in hand.
A small-time criminal picks up the boy hitchhiking, charges $20 for a one-mile ride, kicks him out, and steals his rosebush.
Stranded, the boy wings a rock at the truck in anger. He beans the bad man by mistake. (It was his new, lucky rock.) Knocked out cold, the man runs the truck into a roadside ditch. Boy finds bag in cab, with $77,000 in cash.
It’s a mildly funny opening scene. Kind of like that high school study-hall group of kids you might have known who had that under-the-radar, subversive sense of humor, and made jokes with long fuses, incorporating logical outcomes, that you'd only get 10 minutes later.
