A look back at 80 years of dumb mistakes... Dickie makes many blunders in his life, starting with his own conception--shocking his parents by being a boy instead of their hoped-for girl. Throughout his childhood in the 1940s and early 1950s, from riding on the bumper of a car to being shot with a 12-gauge shotgun, Dickie survives numerous close calls with the help of his ever-present guardian angel. In the ensuing decades, Dickie chooses the wrong...