I wrote this almost 20 years ago, I'm putting it on my blog as a space filler. Just be glad it's not stick-figure cartoons or "The best of..." reruns.
Now picture this, you don't smile at me, I get bummed out and don't smile then you see someone (me) who looks all grumpy so you have another reason to not smile. Customers see us so they get all grumpy and don't smile. Then they see their employers, customers, spouses, and children. So then these people have a reason to not smile and be grumpy. The professional entertainers get annoyed with their audience never smiling and laughing, so they quit giving everyone another reason to smile. Politicians and bureaucrats sense the mood of their constituents so they enact laws outlawing the smile. The animals of the world pick up the air of grumpiness from the human population so they turn on each other. As the human race unleashes their beastly nature more crimes are committed, more animals are hunted into extinction. Eventually when spring comes around the young people aren't dating as much until they aren't dating at all. The species is not being procreated enough to keep up the current technological levels. Eventually the medical community cannot keep up with the forces of age and entropy so disease and pestilence run rampant through the remains of humanity and nature. Eventually the planet earth is devoid of all animal life so of course the plant life follows since it depends on us for existence.
So then finally the entire planet is a lifeless husk
all
because
you
would
not
smile.
I am definitely not a happy smiley person. I copied this they way I wrote it (I did fix one spelling mistake). Do I think this could happen? Nope, but I do take the long view and I could imagine people doing these things.
If I were to rewrite it today I would do it differently, but the original had attitude to make up for rationality.
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