Plot

Long-winded bachelor Patrick Thomas McNulty loses his job in Mr. Cooper's garment factory, visits his favorite local tavern, converses with a stranger, and is inexplicably given a stopwatch that halts time.

Patrick Thomas McNulty, an obnoxious blow-hard who has an opinion for every possible situation and topic there is. People find him insufferable: his co-workers, the regulars at the bar he frequents, his boss as well. McNulty submits a grocery list of suggestions to really turn Cooper Corporations around. His boss, Mr. Cooper, dislikes his ideas wanting to keep his business simple. Cooper discards McNulty, along with all of his ideas. Patrick returns to his local watering hole. The bartender Joe has a talk with McNulty, trying to help him realize that the problem may be McNulty's personality, and the fact that he is responsible for alienating everybody. However, he doesn't drive everyone away tonight. There's one strange little man in a bar who seems as desolate and lonely as he is. A bizarre foreign man by the name of Potts. Well, misery loves company. Patrick buys him a beer. Potts is touched. These poor two seem to be made for each other. Patrick offers him the gift of friendship. For making such an offer, Potts gives back the gift of a family heirloom - a old time stopwatch. McNulty finds plenty of uses for the gift of stopping time. After an attempt to market the little gizmo fails, he uses it to get revenge of his former boss and co-workers. He realizes that the only way he's ever gonna get respect if he gets money and lots of it. He uses the supernatural stopwatch to rob a bank. He stops it just as they're opening the vault. And just as he's walking away with an overflowing cart of cash, his pocket-watch falls out of his pocket...—Dane Youssef

After Patrick Thomas McNulty gets fired from his job, he goes to a neighborhood bar where his non-stop chatter drives all of the customers away. One of the last patrons in the bar has a gift for him: a stopwatch. It's a strange gift and he has no idea what he might do with it. When he presses the button however everything around him stops. He returns to work the next day and tries to market it, but to no avail. He then returns to the bar and again drives everyone out the bar with his bombast.—garykmcd

McNulty is an annoying and talkative man hated by everybody he knows. His boss Mr. Cooper cannot support him anymore and fires McNulty. Now he spends his spare time in the bar of Joe Palucci, scaring away his costumers. One night, McNutty meets an old man and buys him a beer; in return, the man gives a stop-watch to him. Soon McNutty finds that the stop-watch is capable to stop the time, and he decides to brag to his acquaintances. However, nobody believes him and McNutty decides to go further with the stop-watch, with serious consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(By Dane Youssef)

This one circles around Patrick Thomas McNulty, an obnoxious blowhard who has an opinion for every possible situation and topic there is. He has something of a sharp mind for business and talks a lot about diversity is key in business. People find him insufferable. His co-workers, the regulars at the bar he frequents, his boss as well. McNulty submits a grocery list of suggestions to really turn around Cooper Corporations around. His boss, Mr. Cooper dislikes his ideas for diversity, wanting to keep his business simple and totally under his control. And also dislikes McNultys insufferable personality. His way of stuffing himself down your throat.

Come to think of it, so does everyone else. And so the inevitable happened. Cooper discards McNulty, along with all of his ideas.

Patrick returns to his local watering hole. You'd think hed let up with his tiresome self-righteousness and theories. Nope. People cant leave the bar quickly enough. The bartender Joe has a talk with McNulty, trying to help him realize that the problem may be McNulty's personality. And that he seems to alienate everybody. Maybe he should consider that. Whats really the problem here?

McNulty doesnt just have a sharp mind for business. He also has an uncanny true talent for irritating the piss out of people and sending them driving away is massive hoards. But he doesnt just drive everyone away tonight. Theres one strange little man in a bar who seems as desolate and lonely as he is. A bizarre foreign man by the name of Potts. Well, misery loves company.

Patrick buys him a beer. Potts is touched. These poor two seem to be made for each other. Patrick offers him the gift of friendship. For making such an offer, Potts gives back the gift of a family heirloom--an old time stopwatch. McNulty finds plenty of uses for this "gift of stopping time." Or rather one really, really great one--it can stop time itself.

After an attempt to market this little gizmo to Cooper as proof of his genius fails, he uses it to get revenge of his former boss and co-workers.

He realizes that the only way hes ever gonna get respect if he gets money and lots of it. He uses the supernatural stopwatch to rob a bank. He stops it just as theyre opening the vault. And just as hes walking away with an overflowing cart of cash, his pocket-watch falls out of his pocket and breaks on the marble floor.

He hits the button again. He hits it repeatedly. Nothing. Everythings still frozen. McNutly returns to the scene of each of his crimes: his former job, his bar. Everyones frozen solid. He pleads with them to wake up. To come back to life. To move. Something, anything.

Nothing. He runs outside and screams for the world to turn once again. No avail. He is truly doomed. Absolute divine karmatic justice. Poor, poor McNulty. All he really wanted was to be liked, appreciated, respected. Embraced for what he is. For his ideas to get the respect he deserved. The money was never really what he wanted.

Hes always felt cut off from the rest of humanity. Now he truly is...

(By Dane Youssef)