Maybe it’s just me, but in two brief sojourns out into what some laughingly call the real world, I encountered:
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A bumpersticker that read “When the Rapture Comes, You’ll Wish Your Car Had a Jesus Sticker.” It was the only message on the car.
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A cardboard standup full of Little Debbie Valentine’s Day pastries etc., showing a cartoon couple necking in a car. All I could think of was the classic Little Debbie slogan, which was not in evidence: “Little Debbie’s Got a Treat for You.”
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A sign at the grocery checkout reading “Creative Concepts Foil-Rimmed Hat, 2/$1.” While I assume it was a leftover reminder for POS New Year’s hats or something, my thought was, “Holy shit, they’re selling tinfoil hats at the grocery store now.”
Yeah, it’s been a weird day. I finally built the basement bookshelves and between unpacking a half-dozen big cases of books and sorting the shelves, discovered we had:
5 copies of Ringworld Engineers.
3 copies of Imperial Earth.
3 copies of The Deep Range.
And duplicate copies of about a dozen more. We could have saved a whole moving truck…
We now return you to your usual simulated reality.
