I am only on Season 4, 2nd episode but that show gets in your head! I came up with this list last night on the way home from work. I'm telling you...it's ALL I can think about. I stay up late into the night saying "Just one more episode" and then someone dies or get attacked and you watch another one. It's a vicious cycle.
A new season starts in October and I have no doubt I will finish before then. I have to talk myself out of reading the Wikipedia page about the show and it's characters every day.
All the ways the Walking Dead freaked me out in regular life.
Here are some things I think about ALL DAY long because of the Walking Dead:
-You see someone limping at the store and you watch them
closely to make sure they aren’t a Walker pushing a cart. You are relieved to find out they just have a
bad hip. You never thought you would
smile at the thought of someone ‘just’ having a bad hip, but you do.
#nowalkersatTraderJoes
-Someone yawns near you and you cringe thinking they are
coming in for the bite but you realize they are just tired…like you from all the binge
watching of the Walking Dead that you do all night when you should be sleeping.
-You pass a group of runners and think it is a “Herd of
Walkers” but then notice the sweat dripping down their faces and the running
attire they have on. You’re safe for
now. You mentally congratulate them on their
tempo.
-You see cars entering freeway at high rates of speed and you
think it is another survivor group trying to jack all of your supplies. Then you remember you are on the freeway and
you are going just as fast. Your pulse returns to its normal, resting state.
-You walk outside and you look both
ways, listening for the sounds of walkers.
Then you realize that it is just a TV show and there are no Walkers. As you walk to your car you look behind you every
few seconds…just to be on the safe side of course.
-You pass building and think about how they can be used for
shelter and scavenging for supplies if need be.
You know those desks in that office building have Skittles and other snacks
in them; you make a mental note of the location ‘just in case’. You mentally skip some buildings because they
have too much glass and are easily broken into by walkers. That would not make a safe, fortified location. You wonder how far you are from a prison.
-You hear “Breaking News” on the news and think ‘This is it,
this is the announcement from the CDC’ and think how you should have made your
emergency pack already. Then you continue
watching the news and see the “breaking news” is just a Listeria outbreak at
Blue Bell. #getittogetherBlueBell You mentally put the emergency pack back on your to-do list. You are too busy to do that of course because
you are only on Season 4 of your binge watching and don’t have time to make an
emergency pack.
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-You see an image of Santa Clause and think of wise old Hershel.
-Someone is coughing around you and your first instinct is to
tell them to go to Cell Block A (solitary confinement) with the other flu
victims of the prison. Then you realize
that it might be just a cough and not the flu that killed so many of the group. You then go get a flu shot and stock up on
antibiotics at CVS, just to be sure.
-You only eat half of your sandwich at lunch and you think
about throwing it away. You realize
Karma is a B and this moment just might flash before your eyes when you are on
the road scavenging for food while Walkers wait to eat you once you go
outside. You save the sandwich for lunch
the next day. #dontwastefood
-You wonder weird thoughts like ‘If Edward Cullen bites a Walker,
would the Walker now become immortal? They
do have lots of blood that would attract vampires’ and then you realize you
shouldn’t combine two genres because that would REALLY make you seem crazy.
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