Monday, October 6, 2008

Where were you when the stock market crashed?

Okay so this is just my crazy brain working the way it does. When I need to get something out to make ways for more important stuffs I write it out. And I'll post it just in case something like this comes to pass one day. Everything that follows is false and just in the imagination of a crazy college student who can't sleep.

Okay, the year was 2008, now 15 years later I was asked where I was when the real Great Depression hit. Well I was at home, I know, I should have been in class, hello it was just after noon on a weekday, but I was skipping. I had just gotten a new TV (hello, hadn't watched TV in like eight weeks. I need a fix.) Okay well I was sitting there watching FOX NEWS waiting for a re-run of a past fave TV show of mine to start (fyi Crossing Jordan, back when TV was good,) anyway, It was coming up on the hour when FOX started reporting the DOW was falling, and that stocks were being sold off so fast that they couldn't keep up with the numbers. (Let's just say that I didn't catch Crossing Jordan that day, I didn't see that show for another four years, or any show for that matter. ) By the end of the day there was mass chaos, stuff was fly off the selves so fast that we all got whip lash. The World came to a standstill that day, and life was changed forever. It was reported that over three thousand people committed suicide that day, with thousands more in the following days. People died of starvation. Heck, I was really sick, I wasn't as prepared as I thought I was (Though I did reach my goal weight. Not in a good way though.) That was the beginning of what for the next three and a half years would be the Greatest Depression of all time, and life truly was never the same after that....Here 15 years later, I don't know if we've fully recovered yet. We are all more careful with our money, we have stocked fridges and pantry's. Money hidden everywhere, including under the mattress, and in shoe boxes. We don't trust banks. TV is not something we are obsessed with anymore (that has more to do with the fact that all TV shows, and most movies suck every worse then they did in the first decade of the 21st century.) But life sure is different. Nothing like it was back when I was 22.

Okay crazy future thingy is done. And now I go back to watch TV online on Hulu, truly obsessed
with what will no doubt be humanity's downfall. And Shalom.

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