On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:19:05 GMT, Paul Colquhoun
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>On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:31:59 -0600, Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:
>| On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:59:04 GMT, Paul Colquhoun
>| <postmaster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>|>On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:48:25 -0600, Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:
>|> <snipped setup>
>|>
>|>| 1) What are your first thoughts about what happened?
>|>
>|>My first thought on reading this was "I'm the main character from 'The
>|>Day of the Triffids', or close enough".
>|
>| Being a little more camp, I was thinking of "The Night of the Comet."
>|:)
>
>Well, being in a hospital helped bring DotT to mind...
Ah, that's right -- he was in hospital because of his eyes. I'd
forgotten that (it's been too many years since I've seen it).
>|>| 2) What is the first thing you'd do? The second?
>|>
>|>Try to locate girlfriend/wife/family/etc. Get then to a place where I
>|>can look after them for a while, in case they wake up.
>|
>| So you'd leave the hospital fairly quickly?
>
>Well, yes. You did specify some knowledge that would need a reasonable
>search of the hospital, so my "first" & "second" actions were what I
>would do after that.
I was thinking of the line between where you awaken and the front
door.
At first, without knowing that sleeping is a symptom, you wouldn't
want to disturb the other patients in the room, so the first person
you'd try to wake up is someone napping on a chair in the hallway.
A nurses station is probably close, and that's where you'd look for
your chart, and then other charts to see if you can figure out what is
going on. You'd naturally try the telephone, too.
If there's a window at the end of the hallway, that would be the next
stop, and there's more than likely a set of fire stairs there.
Etc.
In other words, no part of the information takes very long to acquire,
and every step in the search takes you farther from the room where you
woke up and closer to the hospital's exit.
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