Zombie Cliche Lookout: No Secrets
When you’re in a small group in tight quarters – say trapped inside by a horde of zombies – it’s hard to keep any secrets. You don’t get to enjoy much in the way of privacy, and most of your conversations are going to be heard by everyone else. Not only can this be another huge stress factor, but it can also introduce a bit of internal conflict to the group. After all, people are often not able to pick who they get stuck with while they’re barricading themselves inside a building with a ravenous pack of zombies hot on their heels.
While there are certainly a lot of negatives associated with this, it can have some positives as well. Imagine finding out that one of your group has a paralyzing fear of closed spaces early enough to avoid putting him in one. That’s valuable intel. And of course there’s always the dirty little secret of a hidden zombie bite. That’s definitely something you don’t want to surprise you.
About this Episode:
I apologize for the lack of commenting on my part the last few days. I’ve been really busy at work in a lot of client meetings. Things should slow back down this Wednesday, and I’ll get back to talking with you guys like normal.
Discussion Question: Dumb Moves
This week I was backing out of my garage, watching carefully behind me so that I didn’t hit my sister-in-law’s car. While I was paying so much attention to her car, I completely neglected to look in any other direction. The result, my car became much more aerodynamic when I clipped the driver’s side mirror off on the side of the garage. Needless to say, I threw a big temper tantrum like a little kid.
I’m telling this story to demonstrate just how easy it is to focus in too much on one thing at the expense of others, which is one of the leading causes of death in the zombie apocalypse (right up there with lazily assuming someplace is safe and zombie free). I’m wondering if you guys have similar experience you’d be up for sharing. Who’s up for telling the group about some of their dumb moves?
Typo Alert: “I’m been really busy” I’m–>I’ve 😀
Only one? Not bad. Fixed!
As for Dave’s dumb move, clipping the driver’s side mirror off is easy to do, some manufacturers have even made it super easy to get a replacement side mirror kit for your vehicle that you can fit yourself if you can understand how to remove the old mirror. 😀
Depending on what manufacturer you got your car from, side mirrors can be as easy to replace as a slide-in job. It does get more difficult, however, when it’s an older style model where the side mirror was built onto purpose-built mounts that weren’t intended for the mirror to come off when you sideswipe something. 😀
I’ve already gotten it replaced. It was a bit more involved than just sliding it in, so I took it into the local body shop. Good people.
Have I mentioned recently that Ted’s got the biggest toolkit I’ve ever seen in anyone’s basement? At 4 studs wide by 3 deep and 4 bricks plus 2 plates high, that had to be hard to get down that flight of stairs into his basement! 😀 It would make a nice zombie-killer if they could find a way of luring them over to a spot where it could bump and clang it’s way over a lot of them, and if it gets sufficient momentum up, it should be darned near unstoppable! 😀
Hah, that’s because I suck at scale. It’s supposed to be modeled on a standard Craftsman tool chest (I have one in my garage). But it’s a tad huge.
The tool chest has some weight in it, doesn’t it, though? 😀 If I’m right and you purchased the usual assortment of spanners, wrenches, and sprocket sets it’s probably full of heavy metal objects, which, together, make that tool chest weigh a lot! :D\
I know, because from personal experience, my dad had a large tool chest, and while physically quite small, it was very heavy to lug around due to all of the sprocket and spanner parts in it! 😀
Oh yeah, it’s not light at all. Even when it’s empty it’s pretty heavy and hard to move around.
Zombie apoc going outside, but Teddy be straight chillin’.
Love it!
In one of the other platoons in my mechanized infantry company during Desert Storm they stopped for the night and set up perimeter security. After about half an hour a couple guys went to get water from the recently arrived supply truck. They were interrupted by three Iraqis who wanted to surrender. Our platoon had set up all around their foxhole and no one had checked the inside of the position.
Oh man, that is a hell of a story. That definitely makes an impression when you’re talking about paying attention to details.