The Stand: What would you do?

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The Nameless

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Ooooh, I love this question. I must admit to fantasising about it while reading it. Not that I wan't to be away from or want any harm to come to my family, but there is a certain fascinating pull to the nomadic "get in a car and see where you go", living off the fat of the land existence. That's what I'd do - take a pick-up fill it with supplies from the derelict shops, find a nice looking neighbourhood and take my pick of the houses to stay in. Stay there for a short while, do a lot of reading, probably some writing. Change cars, top up supplies and do it all again. I'd always try to find a cozy little place like Glen Bateman's in the tv series. One thing I would be sure to do 1st is find a guitar shop, select a nice C.F Martin guitar and load up on strings. I reckon I could adjust to not having most things, but an accoustic guitar - I doubt it.

As for which side I would choose - as much as I want to go to Vegas, a derelict abandoned Vegas is nowhere I want to be, the idea of it just shouts Danger. Plus I'm a good guy. If I ever got the dreams, I go to Boulder.
 
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Kingfisher said:
Is that out of sentimentality or because it's familiar? The way I understood it that the world wasn't too dangerous awhile after the outbreak (excluding that roving band of slavers in the uncut version) so you could basically be anywhere and be ok. I think the biggest danger would be wild dogs, traps left by the dead (there was a whole town of traps in the book), or disease. Nobody ever seemed to have a problem getting food or water as everything in the world was left right where it was.

Good answer though, I'm coming over there when the zombie apocalypse happens.
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...familiarity....I know the area well, having tramped around there frequently as a child...also, it's near the intersection of two Interstate Highway systems....easy to keep track of travelers, yet remain concealed....
 
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Grandpa said:
And now, having said all that, I bid you all a good night (or good day, on the other hemisphere), with the thought that I just bid Grandma good night and told her that I'd be up just a bit longer, because there's a germ of a story about two old cantankerous guys, looking over the End of the World, both with decent survival skills, with polarized political viewpoints which are now meaningless because there's no more politics to debate about, but the passion to debate politics and philosophy still burns. Doesn't that sound like a story? No? Well..... it does to me.
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..."Grumpy Old Philosophers" is the working title I presume?....
 
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kingricefan

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Dana Jean said:
I would try to whore myself out to some macho dude. Unfortunately I can't compete with the young pretty things, so I would have to kill them first.
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Keep in mind that most of the 'young pretty things' (unless they Google it, which wouldn't be working anyway) would have no idea how to cook or clean, etc. And we all know that the best way to a man's heart is thru his stomache....
 
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kingricefan said:
Keep in mind that most of the 'young pretty things' (unless they Google it, which wouldn't be working anyway) would have no idea how to cook or clean, etc. And we all know that the best way to a man's heart is thru his stomache....
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I can just see a crazed lady plunging her bare fist through a mans stomach and up into his chest cavity, then ripping and pulling his heart out through the gaping hole in his stomach.

:smile2: I at least partly blame Stephen King for my over active imagination.
 
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Grandpa said:
I hate to say it, but... ahem.... Dana Jean doesn't need to cook. I cook (he says with self-aggrandizement) splendidly. But given what she's said, sure, Dana Jean can come along. She'd even like my cooking.

Survival guides are most welcome. I have exposure but no great interest because I figured that the probability of their need was subsumed by other more probable interests in the real, ongoing world. If push came to shove, I figured that Boy Scouts, Marine survival, and basic woodcraft would meet it - and especially aided by friendship with one invested in the process. Voila!
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The Man and I have had conversations about this theoretical situation in the past, and have come to the conclusion that we are very glad we had parents and proclivities that led us toward learning 'traditional' skills. His dad was raised on a farm and so learned how to do a bit of everything (carpentry, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, etc); he passed those skills down to his son. We can both cook, sew, garden, etc. etc. Bottom line, we could do pretty well without modern conveniences if we had to. Grandpa is right, though: having a community of people with varied skills would be ideal. :)
 
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