Ok guys listen carefully on this one!!! You only have about one day to try this out, or you will have to wait until next year. I’m sorry I didn’t post this sooner, what can I say, I’m a bum. Have you ever watched one of those movies where there are just a few people left alive after the end of the world? You know, where they are walking around the city and it’s empty and abandoned during broad day light.? No cars on the roads, no people anywhere to be found. Twenty Eight (28) Days later was a recent film that had that as part of the plot. Well, if you want to experience that feeling for yourself you can do so tomorrow morning. My parents divorced when I was pretty young, and for years we always did Christmas Eve with my Dad in Dallas, and then a very early Christmas breakfast with my Mom on Christmas Day. We would always get up and be on the road by 7 or 8:00 a.m. to drive from my Dad’s to my Moms. It is about a 20 mile trip, and we usually could usually count the number of cars we saw on one hand. The parking lots are all empty. The stores are all closed. Streets totally devoid of other cars, even on the highways. When you sit at a stop light, you really feel like you are in one of those post apocalypse films. It’s creepy, but also pretty cool. For those few moments, the entire city is all yours! No traffic, and no people anywhere to be found, and even though the people have all disappeared, the city goes on running itself.
So, if you want to know what it feels like when a city of 4 million people are all at home as though they were no longer on the planet, get up around 7 tomorrow morning and drive around for a little while.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
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