packbat | Movie Casting Meme II

(no, I never did Movie Casting Meme I. This is a variation of that meme, invented by

Who would play you in a movie about your life? Which celebrity could do it the most justice? A common question, and an intriguing one ... but let's turn it around.

Let's say Hollywood was making a movie about your life. All the top celebs have been cast; (insert actor here) is playing the leading role and the script's been written out with very little input from you. However, as part of a deal you managed to finally work out with the Hollywood bigwigs, they agreed to let you on the set ... in a bit part or cameo role. They'll do a little rewriting to give you a few lines.

So, who would you play in a movie about your life? (Since you can't play yourself.)

I would play the total stranger I met outside Staples about ten-to-fourteen years ago who complemented me on my hair.

You see, my hair's weird. For the first ten or so years of my life, I never combed it or anything; it would just naturally tangle into long, think strands. Dreadlocks, in fact.

(Note: According to Wikipedia, dreadlocks actually form naturally anyway. So I guess my hair wasn't weird after all. Oh well.)

In any case, the other unusual characteristic of my hair was its length. You see, I'd never gotten a haircut. In fact, in my life, I've only had one, and that was because of the headlice. (In fact, that's what ended the reign of my dreadlocks.)

In any case, one day, I believe I was walking with my mom to the car when this stranger (whose hair was tangled in relatively-short dreads) saw me and said something along the lines of, "Cool dreadlocks!" He continued to say that he wanted dreadlocks like mine, and then our respective trajectories departed.

Yes, that's the cameo I want. Because my dreadlocks were cool, curse it, and I want dreadlocks like mine were.