Nd reporter

Are you doing this for world peace?

RD REPORTER

Are you doing this for women's right?

NEWSMAN

Or for the environment?

REPORTER

Or for animals?

RD REPORTER

Or for nuclear arms?

FORREST (V.O.)

They just couldn't believe that

somebody would do all that running

for no particular reason.

ND REPORTER

Why are you doing this?

FORREST

I just felt like running.

EXT. BUS STOP - PRESENT

FORREST

I just left like running.

EXT. SMALL EASTERN TOWN

Forrest runs as a YOUNG MAN runs up to him.

YOUNG MAN

It's you. I can't believe it's really

you.

EXT. BUS STOP - PRESENT

FORREST

Now, for some reason what I was doing

seemed to make sense to people.

EXT. SMALL EASTERN TOWN

The young man jobs behind Forrest.

YOUNG MAN

I mean, it was like an alarm went

off in my head, you know. I said,

here's a guy that's got his act

together. Here's somebody who's got

it, all figured out. Here's somebody

who has the answer. I'll follow you

anywhere, Mr. Gump.

FORREST (V.O.)

So, I got company.

Forrest runs up a slope on a high mountain road. A group of

people are jogging behind him.

FORREST (V.O.)

And after that I got more company.

And then...

A large group jogs behind Forrest across the desert road.

FORREST (V.O.)

...even more people joined in.

Somebody later told me...

EXT. BUS STOP - PRESENT

FORREST

...it gave people hope. Now... Now,

I don't know anything about that,

but...

Forrest and his followers job through a small town. A man

runs up and talks to Forrest.

FORREST (V.O.)

Some of those people asked me if I

could help them out.

AGING HIPPIE

Hey, man, hey, listen. I was wondering

if you might help me, huh? Listen,

I'm in the bumper sticker business

and I've been trying to think up a

good slogan. And since you have been

such a big inspiration to the people

around here, I thought you might be

able to help me jump into... Whoa!

Man, you just ran through a big pile

of dogshit!

The hippie jumps over the " dogshit" as he runs along Forrest.

FORREST

It happens.

AGING HIPPIE

What, shit?

FORREST

Sometimes.

The hippie stops to ponder this profound thought.

FORREST (V.O.)

And some years later I heard that

fella did come up with a bumper

sticker slogan...

A bumper sticker reads " Shit Happens."

FORREST (V.O.)

...and he make a lot of money off of

it.

The truck with the bumper sticker drives into an intersection.

It collides with a car.

EXT. TRUCK STOP

Forrest runs, followed by his group, as a man runs up to

him.

FORREST (V.O.)

Another time I was running along,

somebody who had lost all his money

in the T-shirt business, and he wanted

to put my face on a T-shirt, but he

couldn't draw that well and he didn't

have a camera.