So I'm one of those people that watches a horror movie or a sci-fi "thriller" such as Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds and then tries to figure out ways in which I'd handle the same situation - in my present situation. With four kids five and under, basically. Who would I pick up first, where would we hide and where would we go? Would I be able to handle the emotinal trauma of it all? This is nuts! Maybe. But I have some serious game plans if aliens ever do shoot themselves down in lightning bolts and awaken their long-buried machines that lazer-fy people into dust or whatever that was supposed to be. Game plans only. Nothing packed... yet.
Just kidding! Sort of. This is why I stopped watching horror movies and disaster movies in the first place because my thoughts just go bonkers until it invades my dreams (ie: Paranormal Activity) and I start fearing things like the sheets will be ripped off the bed at some ungodly hour. Ridiculous, I know.
How would I escape all that with four kids? I wouldn't. End of story. Earlier today I explained to my father that if gravity suddenly gave way, we'd all just float to our ceilings with all our stuff, then everything else would pop off the ground and we'd just go up, up, up without any choice in the matter. That would totally suck!
I'm only bringing this up because for Halloween, we watched The Crazies (the remake) and of course, I began constructing my game plan. This dumb habit is partly for fun and partly that I'm just odd (and maybe also that I have four kids and have been programmed to constantly worry for them). I'm sure we've all thought "What would I do in this situation?" and I'm the kind of person that wants to know exactly what I'd do ahead of time, no matter how ridiculous, just in case. In the case of The Crazies, I came up with nothing obviously.
So when I read stories like "Great balls of fire over Canada: NASA investigates" some part of me inwardly panics. What the!? Canada is exactly where I'd go if anything crazy ever happened! Right into the center of Canada, where there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. Crime is basically nonexistent and yet everyone owns a shot gun. Canada never did anything to anyone. It's the perfect escape from almost anything and there are so many places to hide. Apparently not from fire balls however, as even NASA can't figure this out yet.
New game plan. :-)
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