Ten-year-old Todd is going with his dad while his dad goes hunting. It is the longest, hardest, and most memorable day of his life.

Mike Knapp would gaze at the top of the flag pole that stood outside his 4th floor office. It didn't look far. Maybe he could leap out the window and grab it. That was just a daydream until one morning when an accident in the parking garage set off a disastrous chain of events.

A stranger walks into a two-man tech company and offers them a million-dollar app - no charge. He talks about "interested persons." Is his offer too good to be true?

Two guys volunteer to cook hamburgers at the company picnic. They have opposite temperaments. Can they survive a picnic without grilling each other?

David is on break from his dead-end job at the Dollar Store. A scruffy old man approaches him claiming to be his uncle who hasn't eaten in two days. David gives the old man his last $2. Something comes back in return later.

Disaster prosperity is something that no one mentions publicly, but all public officials understand. If you have a disaster, money flows in and prosperity reigns. If you are ready, you look good and move up the ladder. The only problem is that no one can arrange a weather disaster. No one, that is, but the weather master.

Someone is crashing one IED-laden aircraft into the United States each month. No one claims credit or seeks negotiation.

Two scientists descend below the Nevada Desert to examine an alien spaceship. They discover unbelievable things, and the aliens are a little weird, too.

Two slackers wandering the woods of Louisiana and Mississippi six months after the Zombie discover an unbelievable way to make the undead really "dead dead." They rescue four young women and become the heroes of the apocalypse.

A young man stumbles in between college and having an semblance of knowing what he is doing as an "adult."

A boy sees his family as high-achievers - all except himself. His grandfather and a guitar change that view and take him through his life in the blink of an eye.

This is a lesson in consulting. It is for talking with a person who knows what is good for them, but can't seem to do it. In the example given, the topic is going to a retreat. Almost any topic could be substituted for it.