What Would You Do? – Day Six: Escape
It’s been some time since we last visited our makeshift zombie apocalypse. Truthfully, I would have crafted more in the past week but a nasty cold (yes, another one) pretty much sucked all my creative juices out of me. But let us not think of snot rags and hacking coughs and return to our imaginary world where the dead has started to make an appearance.
I loved Anna’s response to the question. She was straight to the point.
As soon as I saw that mob, I would have been like “OH SH**, ZOMBIES.” I would have run up to my room and gotten in the crawlspace. My parents’ room is on the other side of the house, and they would be locked in there (yes, I’d lock the door when they were dead, if not for safety than to create a bit more of a respectful area for them) so I’d be alright getting to my room. Then, I’d wait and see what happened next. Obviously I’d have to leave my hiding place soon, but I’d feel alright short term. I doubt a zombie would think to pull a bookcase out of a wall.
I have a feeling she would do just fine at the end of the world. As much as I would like to envision myself as an uber zombie killer, I think in reality, I’d probably doing the same thing as Nicole:
Panic and get eaten. :p Seriously.
Onto Day Six — You wake the following morning to find the dead have moved on down the street. You grab your keys and a baseball bat, then jump into your car. As you drive down the neighborhood you find the streets and sidewalks teaming with dead. They notice you as you drive by them, and trail after your car like a lost puppy. You start to take a turn when a pickup clips into the side of your car, spinning it into a telephone pole. The windshield shatters into a gummy mass. The engine dies. Through strands of broken glass, you can see a mob of walking corpses closing in on you.
What do you do?
Remember: You must answer this honestly. You must close your eyes and put yourself in the imagined situation and tell me what YOU would do. Not what you would want to do or what Max Brooks advises you to do. Also remember, it’s not a question of HOW you got into these situations. Rather, it is WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you found yourself in these situations.
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this is the part where i crap myself grab my bat and run like hell. eventually odds are that i will find a working car on the street check the back seat for zombies (zombieland tip i never thought about) and break one of the windows and hop in. (ill get to bordin it up or something later when i can or care) Use the now convenient skill that my cousin taught me how to hotwire cars and hope it works. (since i have no practice)But knowing my luck it most likely wont or they will get to close for me to finish so i guess ill just book it out of there in any random direction and put those track skills to work and try to lose em.
Ok, totaled car with a baseball bat? I can handle this. I would, first, try to restart the car. If that worked, I’d be on my merry way, after pushing the windshield out with the end of my bat. If it didn’t start after a try or two, I would unbuckle my seatbelt and get out of my car, baseball bat swinging. When my immediate zone was clear, I would get the kids out of the car, putting the younger one on my shoulders, and holding the older one with my left hand. The bat would stay in my dominant hand, ready to swing. I would then start looking for an abandoned car or empty building…or better yet, somewhere with other survivors who can appreciate someone with my unique skills. (I can knit, cook, clean, babysit, etc…)
On a completely unrelated note…I’m glad you’re feeling better, Brian. My youngest son and I JUST finished getting over sinus infections last week. We got put on some nasty -strong antibiotics.
Thanks Nicole … it’s been kind of a nasty winter as the whole family keeps bouncing between various states of being sick … glad your kids are doing better. I’ve recently discovered that hearing kids coughing in the middle of the night is a very unhappy sound indeed.
Now it’s time to justify all the time I spend working out and hoof it!
As I’m moving I’d keep an eye out for alternate routes, possible food sources, vehicles, weapon usable tools, etc. Remaining mobile with alternate escape routes is better than barricading yourself in with nowhere to run. If I were able to find a place to harbor up I would want more than one exit.
Find a nearby building with a low roof and something conveniently placed to allow me to get on it.
I grab my bat and run past the zobies in my way, only smashing the skulls of the ones impassable, then Im passing down a strip mall,with a gun shop, ill grab a pistol,and a shotgun and search for more survivors all the while killing zombies.
First things first, I take a second (just one) to take a deep breath and get my head on straight. I don’t want to go into some sort of panic where I forget how to unlock my seatbelt or something.
If the car really is dead and done for–it gets two tries, max–I use the bat to bust out what’s left of the windshield and get out.
Assuming I don’t have any gaping bloody wounds and/or I haven’t broken a leg, I run/briskly walk the heck outta there and look for a quick place to take a minute and re-access the situation. Do I need medical attention? Do I look for another car? Am I better off on foot? Are there other survivors lurking on the streets? etc…
i would grab my bat and run. probably somewhere close by that i could rely on, like a friend or family members house. this plan would work unless of course these zombies are new age zombies, in that case i was never that good at out running people, and i would probably die :/