GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN UPDATE
I exit the bomb shelter, wishing, hoping - no, PRAYING the government shutdown is finally over. I don camo and creep through the forest towards the street. See my neighbor's kid riding his bike like nothing is wrong. Good start but a bad finish on the way for that ignorant kid. Hey kid, haven't you heard, there's a shutdown!!
Knock kid off the bike. Hey, not sure if shutdown still in effect so it's every man young man kid for himself! Kid's dad not pleased. Too bad for him, I have the bike. Kid's dad has the truck. Guess he stockpiled gas for the shutdown. Kid's dad way too aggressive. I guess the panic caused by the government shutdown reached his home. Decided walking into town better for my health anyway.
It was a long walk. Reach town exhausted, expect to see residents looking like me - a dude trying out for a supporting role on The Walking Dead. People seem fine in town ... going about their business. And pointing and laughing at me. A-holes. I survived two weeks in my bunker on nothing but granola and purified urine water! Well, kinda purified. Continue meandering about town on foot and don't see any signs of the apocalypse, and I mean none. No riots, no looting, no destruction. Makes it kinda hard to fit in wearing bloodstained camo. My blood unfortunately due to that overly angry dad.
Then it dawns on me ... everything is normal! I don't see a single sign that the shutdown is harming my town! Time to celebrate the end of the shutdown and the halt to apocalypse! Hold up, I catch the headline in the paper at the market - government shutdown now in its record 3,215th day? No, bug on the glass window to the newspaper dispenser - shutdown in day 31. Incredible. How are the stores open, the streets operational, the lights still on, bicycles still being stolen?? Something is off here. It's almost as if the government is ... useless.
Will head back to the bunker. Good news - stocked up on granola and urine water filters! I am ready to go.