Saturday, May 15, 2010

Shout outs to Miro and Gemma

Josh had an unreasonable fear of heights. Josh was a pilot. He flew for Air New Zealand. His cruising altitude was twenty metres above ground level, and even that made him sweat. He flew so low that he still had to follow streets and weave between hills and buildings. He flew from Wellington to Hamilton and always followed State Highway One.
    One day Josh got pulled over. Even though he followed the road code as well as he could Josh’s plane travelled much faster than a car. The cop gave him a three hundred dollar speeding ticket. When Air New Zealand found out about this they fired Josh. They had a zero tolerance policy. Since he was now unemployed Josh had no way of paying the speeding fine.
    He also had no way of paying rent. Josh was kicked out of his flat without being given a chance to take his things. He tried searching for jobs but the only place hiring was the Sky Tower. They held their interviews on the top floor. Josh didn’t do so well in his interview. He fainted in his chair before he was asked the first question.
    Josh woke up in a hospital. He was completely wrapped in bandages. A nurse explained that he had taken to long to pay the speeding ticket, so the government had repossessed his only possession: his body. They had harvested all of Josh’s organs and he was now kept alive by a state of the art life support system.
    After a few weeks Josh became accustomed to his new life. He didn’t have to do anything on account of being part of a government experiment. He got to watch tv all day. Then one day there was a power cut. The tv screen went blank and Josh’s life support system died.

1 comment:

  1. Wow.
    I think if you ever publish this you need to credit Miro and Gemma for inspiration.
    Amazing that you can make depressing so funny. :-)

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