Thursday, August 12, 2010

End of the world cult, kidnapping

I'm at a religious event in an indoor stadium, it has something to do with the prediction of the end of the world by nuclear war which is happening in 2017, after a period of global harmony starting in 2012. Everybody is buying bulk food to store at the end times. I realize I have to do the same as the rest of the world is going crazy.

After the event, my dad says those who didn't attend should ask for forgiveness. "I came only because it's intellectually stimulating to observe," I respond.

I'm with a girl I've been dating, we walk to me parent's car who we're riding home with. When we get to the car, I'm surprised irritated to see two of my nieces in the back seat. The absolute most the car can fit is six and my brother has a friend that needs a ride too, for a total of 8. I walk back to my brother, standing outside the doors of stadium with his friend. I explain the situation.

I'm back in the car and explain that there are enough cars to fit everybody going back to the town we're going to, but we have to wait to make sure everybody knows the arrangements. I go back to the area outside the stadium. I see my dad drive the car around the outside of the parking lot towards us, I point it out to my brother. He takes a wrong turn but eventually gets to us. I scold him for leaving where he was, telling him in situations like this it;s best to stay where everybody knows you are. We get in an argument - he claims that the problem is a timing thing and he and one of the nieces are the only ones who got it right. I argue that the problem was he brought more people than the car could fit. I ask my brother to explain the situation to him, but he doesn't.

We're driving away, everybody seems to be in the car. I have a device that is both a phone and a very famous electronic basketball game, I've hardly used the game. My brother says he knows the people who originally designed the game in one May. I think about saying it was clearly based on the handheld basketball game from the mid seventies, but my mom announces she's made it to the tournament. I'm surprised she's played at all.

We're stopped, waiting to make sure the rest of the people from our town have rides. My brother has walked back to the stadium to make sure. I'm standing in the street. My dad suddenly drives by in a car he seems to have stolen. I look back at the car and notice two men seem to be trying to kidnap the rest of the people in the car - my mom, girlfriend and nieces. I run down the street hoping to find help. I find a baseball bat on the sidewalk and pick it up to use as a weapon. I decide to stop cars and make people help me. The first car I stop is a delivery truck, I point to the car and tell the driver it's a kidnapping. I notice the driver is a young teenager who wouldn't be much help. There is a schoolbus parked in the opposite lane, so I tell the driver just to stay there so I can gather up a posse from the cars that will have to stop behind.

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