A garbage man was making his rounds in Oklahoma. It was just another day on the job, or so he thought. Bill Murray suddenly appeared on the sidewalk, eating a whole pineapple and wearing a tuxedo. This was strange, considering the blistering Oklahoma heat.
"Bill Murray? What the hell are you doing here?" asked the garbage man.
"Eating a pineapple. Oklahoma has the best pineapples," replied Bill Murray.
The garbage man was left a little bewildered. He hadn't even tried a pineapple in his life, but he didn't want to admit that to a man as cultured and worldly as Bill Murray.
Before he could respond, Bill Murray said "Don't believe me? Try a bite. Say, what did you want to do in life before you became a garbage man? My old man was a garbage man. It's a very noble profession."
"This pineapple is great! Oh, uh... well, it's a bit silly. I wanted to be a professional scuba diver. And I wouldn't say what I'm doing is too noble. I'm barely making ends meet," said the garbage man.
"Well, the world needs garbage men more than they need guys on a big screen fighting ghosts and all that crap, ha ha. Why didn't you become a scuba diver, if you don't mind me asking?"
"I'm embarrassed to tell Bill Murray this, but I've never even seen the ocean, man. I'm stuck in Oklahoma dealing with garbage. My ex-wife gets half my check. My kids think I'm a loser because their new dad is a pilot."
"What are you doing later today?" asked Bill Murray.
"I was about to go home and drink beer. I just picked up my last garbage bag."
Bill Murray pulled out his cell phone and made a call. He was speaking in Spanish, so the garbage man couldn't understand him, but he was impressed that Bill Murray was bilingual.
"You ever been on a plane? If you get anxiety, I've got some absolutely killer weed that'd help out."
"Uh, no, why do you ask? And I'll take the weed, ha ha."
"Oh, believe me, we'll be smoking weed. I just got us plane tickets to Hawaii. We're going scuba diving."
"In the ocean?" The garbage man was ecstastic.
"Where else, man?" Bill Murray smiled and hugged the garbage man.
A few months later, the garbage man was no longer the garbage man. He was now teaching a scuba diving class in Hawaii, and every year Bill Murray vacations out in Hawaii and visits the man at his job.
Around this same time period, a teacher at a school in Ooltewah, Tennessee was telling her class how stupid they were. All the kids had done poorly on a test. They were just nine year-olds, but this teacher was cutting them no slack. She wanted high grades, and she was determined to get them. After lecturing her class for about ten minutes and reducing one of the special needs students to tears, a knock was heard on the door.
"Who is it? I'm trying to explain to my students why they're lazy pieces of crap," said the mean teacher.
"It's Bill."
The teacher opened the door assuming it was the superintendent named Bill. They were good friends, and often had sex behind their spouses' backs. Who she saw standing there threw her for a loop.
"You're Bill Murray. You were in
Ghostbusters."
"Yeah, did you read my Wikipedia or something? Anyway, I have a message for these kids."
"Alright, let's see what you have to say, Bill Murray." She stood aside with her arms crossed, looking quite pissed off.
"Kids, if you do one thing today, don't listen to what your teacher is saying."
The mean teacher gasped, yet Bill Murray continued.
"There is no one way to live life on this planet. You only have so much time on this flying hunk of rock, so you might as well follow your dreams. And one of you might want to be a basketball player. Maybe one of you wants to be a mortician. Hell if I know. But whatever it is, you need to set your mind to it and be the best damn whatever this world has ever seen. And let me tell you. I was a kid who goofed off and did poorly on my exams. And now I'm Bill Murray. Ask your parents about me. I didn't get where I am today studying some test. And hey, if you want to do well on the test, go for it. But it's not gonna make or break your life. Stay in school, but know that there's more out there if you want it. Follow your bliss, kids."
The students began to cheer and the teacher was still speechless. Bill Murray grinned at her, but she did not grin back. She knew she had just been owned by Bill Murray. He left the school and went back to his house and smoked weed.
Those stories of Bill Murray only heighten the importance of
Ghostbusters. It was an inconic film with an iconic theme, and I highly recommend the soundtrack which stands up on its own right.
