Oh dear, not another apocalypse

[ladyofastolat]

Tonight, at home time, the industrial estate on which I work was eerily empty. Instead of packed car parks with queues to leave them, there was just silence and emptiness. Since I can't think of any reason why so many workers might have chosen to take the afternoon off, I can only assume that some hideous apocalypse is upon us. Mass alien abduction doesn't work, since why have the cars gone, too? A zombie apocalypse would probably involve more blood and severed limbs adorning the silent roads. An asteroid strike is something I suspect I would have noticed, even in the quiet of the library. It must be plague, then. That's a shame.

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[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

I think you must have been right about the plague - I noticed that many houses put up banners with the mark of a bloody red cross to show that they were afflicted, and appropriately for a modern-day apocalypse many cars did too. These have mostly been taken down now, though, so I do hope that is a sign of people having recovered, rather than that all inhabitants died of the plague...

(Dammit, I keep wanting to type 'plaque'. I've never been the same since I saw tigerfort's utterly brilliant letter to the Times, regarding the question of which is the *real* Shakespeare's mother's house (or whatever the debate was) in Stratford: his suggestion of course was "a plaque on both their houses.")