Today I woke up to the radio alarm clock playing "The hangman's song".
Armageddon time is coming soon,
the fires will turn us all into dust.
And we will be judged one last time,
you, your son and me.
So I hit the snooze button. 5 minutes later, REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" was on.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed.
Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
I finally decided it was time to get up, turned the radio off and went to the bathroom to take a shower. As I dried my hair, I happened to notice the sky was covered in dark clouds. Ominous sound of thunder could be heard in the distance and a flock of rather large birds could be seen flying in the distance.
"How peculiar" I said to myself. “The thunder sounds like a huge trumpet and those birds almost look like winged humans”.
As I was dressing, I turned on the TV. Someone was saying that NASA was in emergency launch preparations, following the detection of a previously unknown asteroid heading straight for our planet.
"I saw that movie" I mused.
As I got inside my car, I noticed some men wearing strange outfits walking down the street. They almost looked like level 4 bio-hazard suits.
"Must be a Halloween thing" I though. "But wait. Isn't Halloween still a week away?" I asked myself.
Then, I saw them drag one of my neighbors out of his house. The man appeared unconscious and was covered in what must have been red paint. It was pouring from his mouth, eyes and nose. I guess he was cold, since they wrapped him some sort of black plastic cover and zipped it all the way up.
"That looks like a serious hangover" I said out loud, as I drove away "Must have been some party".
I turned on the radio. Someone was talking about an emergency situation at the Large Hadron Collider and how that could lead to the appearance of strangelets.
"Funny name" I commented, and changed the station, just as a report of rapidly rising sea levels due to cataclysmic climate changes were coming on.
Then, when I came to a red light, the strangest thing happened: a man walked slowly pass my car... with half of his face ripped off. Clearly he had been on some sort of car accident and was in need of medical attention. Fortunately, he fell on top of a gentleman that was passing by who, in turn, began applying a weird version of CPR, just as the light turned green.
I continued driving and noticed a lot of people seemed to be running in all directions. I wondered if there was some sort of sporting event going on, but couldn't recall of any being announced.
As I entered the parking lot of my office building, I noticed very few cars inside. As it was still early, I didn't think too much of it. I got out and walked all the way to the entrance. The guard was lying down, probably taking a nap.
"Slacker" I muttered under my breath.
I got up to my office without running into anyone else.
“Oh well, it’s Friday” I concluded.
So I decided to come here and write all this down.
Wait.
What thread is this?
What!
End of the world on the 21st!
But TODAY is the the 21st!
That would mean….
[Carrier lost: autoposting]
