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PRE-THANKSGIVING.....

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HOW DARK IS DARK.......?
SUDDENLY, MIND ON THE SCREEN, READING WORLD EVENTS AND OCCASIONALY REPLYING TO MESSAGES FROM KIN AND FRIENDS, TO HAVE A POWER OUTAGE ....AT 3AM IN THE QUIET OF YOUR OWN HOME....IN LESS THAN A HEARTBEAT, THERE IS NOT A GLIMMER OF LIGHT...ALL OF THE NIGHT LIGHTS ARE GONE...THE RED EYES OF THE POWER FED APPLIANCES HAVE DISAPPEARED...THE THOUGHTS THAT SUDDENLY RUN THRU AND ACROSS YOU CONSCIENCE BEING...FIRST, YOU THINK THE CRIMINAL THING...SOMEONE OUTSIDE OF YOUR HOUSE HAS DISABLED YOUR POWER PANEL WITH INTENTS TO DO YOU HARM..CUT YOUR PHONE LINE AND YOU HAVE ALWAYS POO-PAWED THE CELL-PHONES AS BEING TOO COMPLICATED! SHOULD YOU DASH OFF IN THE DARKNESS AND GET YOUR GUN OR SNEAK OVER THERE TO THE KITCHEN COUNTER AND GET THE DECORATIVE MARBLE ROLLING PIN...OR THAT JINZO CUTTING KNIFE THAT THE SLICE OF CHEESE DON'T STICK ONTO????? WHERE THE HELL IS MY FLASHLIGHT....THE EMERGENCY RED COLORED, 3 BATTERY MODEL THAT CAN BE ALTERNATELY BE USED AS A 'HEAD-KNOCKER'......IT'S A MODEL THAT HANGS FROM THE SHELF SO YOU FUMBLE AROUND IN THE BLACKNESS UNTIL YOUR QUIVERING MITT LATCHES ONTO IT'S WELCOME AND REASSURING HEAVINESS...YEAH, THIS HEAVYWIEGHT BEAMER WILL KNOCK LUMPS ON SOMEONE'S CRANIUM....AT LEAST YOU DON'T HAVE A WAKENED UP ANIMAL/PET TO STUMBLE OVER IN THE DARKNESS....YOUR CONFIDENT BEAM OF LIGHT STABS OFF INTO THE DARKNESS AS YOU CREEP TOWARD THE FRONT BAY WINDOW TO PEEK OUT SIDE...YESSSSSSSSS!!!! THE ENTIRE AREA IS BLACKER THAN THE INSIDE OF THAT WET-BLANKET YOU'VE JUST HIDDEN YOURSELF INTO...THE USUAL, WELL LIGHTED AVENUE JUST ACROSS THE STREET IS BLACKER THAN YOUR BANKERS HEART WHEN YOU INQUIRED ABOUT A LOAN FOR SOLOR POWER ON YOUR HOME...HE'S A REPUBLICAN, YOU KNOW AND A CRANKY TIGHT-WAD AT THAT..........THE LIGHTS CLICK ON...IN THE SAME SUDDENNESS THAT THEY CLICKED OFF 3 MINUTES EARLIER...WAS IT ONLY THAT LONG...THE RAMPAGING BEATING OF YOUR FRIGHTENED HEART HAD SLOWED IT'S RYTHMN AND THERE YOU ARE, FRAMED IN THE WINDOW OF YOUR HOME...PEERING OUT INTO THE PORCHLIGHT AND THE NOW RESTORED BRILLIANCE OF GLENDALE ARIZONA...YOUR THOUGHTS YOU HAD SO RECENT ABOUT YOUR PROTECTIVE GUN AND JINZO 'SLICK-BLADED KNIFE' MAKES YOU SMILE LIKE A SPEECH-IMPEDED INDIVIDUAL SUDDENLY DISCOVERING HE CAN SPEAK AS PLAINLY AS ANYONE AFTER BEING SCARED IN THE DARKNESS...THREE MINUTES...DO THE ELECTRICAL FOLKS DESCRIBE THAT HAS A 'POWER BUMP'....I WONDER WHAT PART OF THE GLENDALE METROPOLIS WAS EFFECTED/AFFECTED BY THE INCIDENT.....I FLASH OFF THE TRIPLE-CELL HEAD BUSTER FLASHLIGHT AND HANG IT BACK UP THERE ON THE SHELF...PUT THE JUNZO BLADE BACK IN IT'S PROTECTIVE SHEATH....THE NOW LIGHTED CLOCKS ON THE STOVE RANGE AND THE MICROWAVE ARE FLASHING...LAST TIME WE HAD A POWER OUTAGE, I HAD TO ASK THE 5 YEAR OLD, GREAT GRANDSON TO SET THE TIMING FOR ME...POWER GADGETS ARE NOT MY SPECIALITY...I'VE HAD THE SAME GARAGE DOOR OPENER FOR 10 YEARS AND HAVE NOT MASTERED IT'S MAGIC BUTTONS YET...WELL PILGRIM, WERE YOU ENTERTAINED BY MY ADMITTED FRIGHT AND CONCERN....I'M BEHIND SCHEDULE NOW SO NOTHING PERSONAL TO ANY OF YOU THIS MORNING, BUT I WILL BE THINKING OF EACH OF YOU AND YOUR IMPENDING PLANS FOR THANKSGIVING...THOUGH NOW, FOR ME, IT SEEMS VERY TRIVIAL AND UNIMPORTANT, BUT A WHILE AGO WHEN MY SHAKING MITT WRAPPED AROUND THAT FLASHLIGHT-WEAPON THERE IN THE DARKNESS, I OFFERED A WHOLE NINE YARDS OF THANKFULLNESS... GEARED-UP IN GLENDALE.....
 
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