I was fighting with my sister. It was a nasty fight, there was hitting and pinching and pulling of hair. I kicked her stuff around, she kicked mine. At some point, there was blood. Our parents walked in and yelled at us and told us to sit down and shut up. I can't remember what we were fighting over.
Lighting flashed outside our curtained window. It went from nighttime to morning in a matter of minutes. Non-stop raining led to dirty, yellow floods around the neighborhood and around the tracks. Suddenly we were on a train. My dad put the table in its upright, hold position and saw a worm or salamander creepy crawl its way past him. He tried to swat at it but to no avail. It had disappeared. Then he looked down and there were 7 worms squirming around on the ground. I watched in horror as he stomped them to death, and with such fury. Then we saw more. Hundreds more. Wiggling around in the curtains, latching onto the fibers from the cloth. Then there were snake-sized worms, some dead, some drowning. They were light, flesh-colored and abnormally penis-shaped wigglers. I thought I was going to hurl. They infested the coach like a plague and I needed to get out. Someone pulled aside the curtain trying to escape the writhing creatures only to have hundreds more fall on their head from above. They screamed but the falling masses muffled their open mouth.
I found a little book. It was titled "2010". Like a guide to disaster. I flipped through a few of the pages and found a timeline of events that were going to happen. Unexplained anger, lighting and floods, worm infestation...what was next?
Evil scientists trying to conduct horrible experiments on us. We needed to get a giant bowl of rice to protect us against them. Of course we went to McD's to get it - what? So we're running around town being chased by these scientists and I accidentally leave my 2010 Disaster Guide on one of the tables. We gotta keep running. Up and up and up these stairs, through this white door...right into their hands. Great. Our rice is no longer of any use to us.
They take it however and drop it into this bigger contraption. I guess they needed it, we were tricked! Smoke was coming out, liquid was bubbling and something hot was splattering on our skins like oil. I didn't like the idea of some unknown chemical touching my arm and tried to back away.
And I'm racing on this horse. We're speeding down the track but I don't know how I'm holding on. C'mon girl, giddy up! The details of the race are unimportant and insignificant to me but we got second place, after which my horse collapsed and turned into a little girl. She was my daughter. I picked her up gingerly into my arms, she was exhausted and very thirsty. "I don't want water!!" she said. I walked hurriedly back to the hotel, walked past this store that sold fancy tea leaves and French macarons, drooled a little and briefly considered stopping in. "I'm thirrrsty.." I knew I had to hurry, she just ran...er...galloped like crazy for me. I placed her down on the big, luscious hotel bed and ran to the convenience store within. NINE DOLLARS for a can of iced tea? You're kidding me. I had them charge it to the room. Let the hubby take care of it. Suddenly the manager taps me on my shoulder, "Do you think you could take over for my cashier? It's very simple. I need her for an hour so."
Why did I agree? I had no idea how to work their credit/debit card machine, no instructions and hella people were lining up with purchases. I hopped into a cab and it was shared with 4 or 5 Asian thugs. Kids. Kids who thought they were thugs. Like a school bus, they got off one by one, doing their random gangsta signs. I finally returned to the hotel room where my baby was. "You won't believe what happened to me..."
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