Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Ending for the pedestrian

The drive was long and quiet, but we finally arrived at what looked like an institute. It was out of the city, and deep in the woods. Once we pulled up the cop car told me, “Go inside and talk to the person at the main desk, he will instruct you from there.”
“What if I run away?”
“Then I’ll run you over, so just do yourself a favor and go inside.”
“Okay, okay. I was just exploring my options.”
As I entered this “institute” there were lots of cold hands grabbing me, trying to wrestle me to the floor. I must say I put up a pretty good fight, but they got me down and tied my hands together and taped my mouth shut. Then I was dragged to a dark room that had a single light shining on a chair. The chair looked like the ones off the human experimental lab places. It had the “hat” that had lots of wires coming to and from it. As I took a closer look, they were hooked up to what looked like a huge generator and computers. The next thing I knew I was forced into the chair with that creepy hat on my head. I was sitting there for a couple minutes, and then all of a sudden, without warning, the hat was electrocuting me. It felt like it lasted for hours, but it was only for a few seconds. First, I tried moving all my body parts to make sure I wasn’t paralyzed, which I wasn’t. Second I asked, “What the heck was that? Did you really have to electrocute me?”
“We didn’t ‘electrocute’ you, we sent waves through your brain which might have shocked the rest of your body. We’re just trying to see why you are so different than the rest of the city.”
“You didn’t need to go and shock my body to figure it out; I would have happily told you. I’m not going to have anything wrong with me am I?”
“No, you shouldn’t, but there are risks and side effects just like everything else. You may lose some of your memory, or go blind, but so far that has only happened to three out of the three we experimented on, so we’re pullen for you to be the first without side effects.”
“Thanks. That makes me feel a lot better. Can I go now?”
“Go ahead. We have all the information we need here.”With out hesitation I got the heck out of there. On my long walk home nothing seemed to be wrong, but we’ll just have to wait for the morning. There was a cold nip in the air, and everything seemed very dark and quiet. To tell you the truth I was getting a little spooked, so I sped the walk up and got home as quickly as I could. As I entered into the city, I noticed that everyone still had their TV’s on. It didn’t surprise me though; I’m used to seeing them on. When I got home I slipped my Pajamas on and went right to bed. The next morning I couldn’t remember what happened yesterday, and I thought that was odd because I have a really good memory, or at least I thought I did, but with old age comes memory loss or something like that. Anyways, each night I continue to walk and see all the lazy people in their houses watching their TV’s, and the next mornings I can’t remember what happened the day before. I guess that guy was right, I did lose my memory.

1 comment:

Kent said...

So they let him continue to walk at night? Why?