I had a Stephen King moment.
It happened this evening after work. I needed to go to the
grocery store and pick up some ingredients for my evenings dinner. Nothing
complicated, just a few quick ingredients.
The store was not crowded .No long lines at check out or
aisles full of people standing in front of that item I wished to grab off the
shelf . And then the image hit me.
So, as the song goes – I don’t want to fade out , I want to …
FADE IN :
Daytime. Summer .Birds singing.Peaceful afternoon as people
go about their day. Foot traffic is
steady in and out of the big box supercenter grocery store. I enter the store
and approach the produce center in search of some strawberries.
Inside, families, couples and individuals select their items
. It’s a typical scene on a Sunday afternoon.
Until it happened.
An intense vibrating klaxon sounds
And in an instant throats are slit. Strangled. And stomped
on . Husbands go at their wives throats
with car keys. Mothers knock their young children to the floor and begin to
stomp on the necks with an angry intensity. Strangers grab strangers and
strangle them to till the bodies drop .
And then a second klaxon suddenly sounds and the assaulting
individuals fall to the floor.
…see……this is what happens when I go to the grocery store
hungry. Never ends well
