Short Film Treatment: The Interview

This is it. The job I've always wanted. I still have 3 hours before the appointment at 1pm but i want to get there early to assure that nothing will go wrong...
Hmmm it takes around 5 minutes to get there and I'm leaving 2 and half hours early? I have plenty of time....
CRASH

Ah! watch where you're going my car already just got ran into. Ugh whatever I'll just call a tow truck I still have 2 hours before my appointment.
He dials the number... Hello? yes hi i need someone to come out and tow my car.

muffled noises are heard and Tom hangs up the phone in disgust.
It'll take them one hour to get here!? i guess that's okay I'll still have an hour and a half to get to my appointment and it will only take me 10 minutes to walk from here so I have plenty of time still right
(Tom begins meticulously rubbing his hands together)
This is taking to long I'm just going to leave and walk for my appointment 
(The clock above strikes 12pm)
I better hurry now I only have an hour to get there.... even if it only takes 10 minutes to walk... oh well
his first step lands him on the ground with his face laying down and his pants soaked from the puddle
I can't present myself like this i need to run home and change! what does my watch say... 12:05?!?! how long have i been laying here...
It doesn't matter I need to get there I have goals and I need to accomplish them!
Gotta find clothes gotta find clothes found some!
Okay time check... 1230! I gotta run now
huff huff huff huff huff theres the building i can stop for a break now. I Wonder what the time the clock in the building reads
Tom walks into the lobby and asks the receptionist for the time she informs him it is 12:55
Oh no I'm going to be late!
He runs up the stairs and scales 5 flights of stairs and bursts into the room panting and realizes he's in the wrong building!!!
12:58! he runs down the stairs out of the building and enters next door and runs up 5 more flights of stairs and throws the doors wide open and his eyes focus on the clock on the far side of the room it reads 1:01
I'm late!!!
He runs into the office of the hiring manager.
The manager takes one look at Tom and gives him the job on the spot without any interview
The manager simply states that anyone who goes through this much chaos and this much stress has the just the determination we look for here. There is no need for an interview if Tom already displays all the qualities that we idealize here.
Tom is elated and begins prancing around and knows that it became his determination that got him the job, but time certainly helped to complicate matters.

Character in Time

I was done with it. I'm done with everything. I can't balance it all anymore. I'm no longer the best. I was always that person that everyone looked up to and thought had the perfect life. I was good at every sport, limitless possibilities for my education, until i finally snapped. It seems like it happened yesterday... I started my day like any normal day, until I was blindsided while on my way to school. I always have the same route, why would this day be any different. It all happened so fast, I was walking, then I was on the ground being yelled at and tormented. I am left on the ground with physical wounds that would heal, but I am never going to be able to forget the things that were said or the emotional gashes that are left. When I finally arrived to school my life was left in tatters. I knew i wasn't perfect. I could never go back to living my life like before. Now I am left as a shell of my former self, without any reason to try and regain my former form. It is now that I have chosen to instead walk the streets just waiting for my life to take it's course. Until I was walking around town and saw some of my former friends. I just decided that I'd walk faster than to face them. I couldn't relive my failure or erase the scars. I was so caught up in my despair that i didn't notice the curb and fell over. I hunched over and went into a ball and just cried and cried. I didn't expect my friends to come over and check if I was okay. I didn't expect everyone to come and tell me everything is okay and that they missed me. I decided I may not be perfect but at least I can always be respected, no matter what happens.