My Post Apocalyptic Plan is Ruined
12 May
or I Have An Overactive Imagination.
I love end of the world movies. The Day After Tomorrow for example. When I was little, I pretended my Barbies were a family fleeing the Nazis just like the the Trapp family from The Sound of Music. Jericho is one of my all time favorite television shows.
Should the United States sustain a nuclear attack (and a series of EMPs) as portrayed in the TV series Jericho, I had a plan.
Without electricity or a working car, David and I would have nothing of value to trade for food and supplies. With my handgun and limited ammunition to protect us from the looters, we would walk from our home to my parents’ home twenty miles away.
There, my father has a collection of guns, knives and ammo that we could trade for food, and of course use to defend ourselves from the neighboring townspeople and mercenaries. (That last part probably doesn’t make sense if you’ve never seen Jericho) Also, my parents have a swimming and filtration equipment, so if the plumbing stopped working, we’d have adequate water.
This plan is now foiled by the fact that we can’t walk from New Jersey to Dallas.
For further proof of my overactive imagination, let me relay a real life scenario that actually occurred.
I was taking a shower, and our dog Henry started barking and wouldn’t stop. I yelled for David asking him what was wrong with Henry. There was no response, and Henry started barking louder. I yelled for Henry to come to me. I yelled for David. All I could hear was Henry barking. I decided that David must have fallen and become unconscious. Henry was barking trying to tell me something was wrong.
Turns out, they were just playing. David couldn’t hear me yelling.
Sometimes on secret agent movies you’ll hear a guy say he has a plan to kill everyone he meets. I have a plan to survive every possible disaster and accident. I’m not sure if that makes me crazy or just prepared.
I just started cracking up of the idea of Barbie’s running from the Nazi’s…
haha! Your a nut girl!
So funny! I have the same overactive imagination, however-I was in the shower and pretty sure I saw a strange person in my walk in closet (my husband was out of town) so I threw a shampoo bottle at “them”….turns out it was just my own shadow. Paranoia FAIL.
The Barbie/Nazi thing is TOO much! You’re hysterical!
Have you read the Point of Light series by Terri Blackstock? Same scenario…EMP hits, nothing works…AWESOME books.
And I love the Day After Tomorrow!
I have that book series if you want to read them Ashley.
Ha, Dayna and I were very big fans of Jericho. We could not BELIEVE that show got cancelled.
Yes! I want to read the Point of Light series. Thanks, Mel. I’m with you, Daniel. I cannot believe they canceled Jericho.