“The people in Groundhog Day. How many times till they got it right?” “Lots,” I said. “I lost count, in fact.” “Wouldn’t that be great?” he asked me. “If the world really worked that way?” I’d been about to say that it had taken them so many times that I had very nearly walked out of the movie in the middle, but instead I said, “Well, yes, it would, I guess.”