What if?

1. What if….. all works of fiction were alternate realities?
2. What if….. we never died?
3. What if….. you could hear my thoughts?
4. What if….. we heard with our fingers?
5. What if….. we were all the same race?
6. What if….. we could teleport?
7. What if….. all our news had no spin?
8. What if….. we were single-celled organisms?
9. What if….. computers were never invented?
10. What if….. we had no government?
11. What if….. we all knew what the hell to do with our lives?
12. What if….. we were all color-blind and tone-deaf?
13. What if….. we had wings?
14. What if….. we were asexual?
15. What if….. we all lived off the grid?
16. What if….. we had a past lives pavilion, like in “Defending Your Life”?
17. What if….. regardless of your job, everyone made the same amount of money?
18. What if….. we used pinwheels as transportation, like Mary Poppin’s umbrella?
19. What if….. there were no diseases?
20. What if….. the Christians are right?
21. What if….. we laid eggs?
22. What if….. we could fast-forward and rewind through our lives?
23. What if….. we were all blind?
24. What if….. chopsticks were the size of baseball bats?
25. What if….. age regulations were based on maturity instead?
26. What if….. we chose the way we died?
27. What if….. we were all polygamist?
28. What if….. education was free?
29. What if….. we lived underwater?
30. What if….. we were the bottom of the food change?
31. What if….. communism could work on a large scale?
32. What if….. we walked on our hands?
33. What if….. everyone cared about environmental issues?
34. What if….. spam and eggs was the national meal?
35. What if….. we were all blank slates, and others saw us as they wanted?
36. What if….. the cockroach is the top of the evolution chain?
37. What if….. we were all hippies?
38. What if….. pizza was fat free?
39. What if….. we lived like the Flintstone’s or the Jetson’s?
40. What if….. life was a constant vacation?
41. What if….. we all wore togas?
42. What if….. there were an average person’s Olympics?
43. What if….. pets spoke English?
44. What if….. we were on a barter system?
45. What if….. we could vacation on the moon?
46. What if….. we were all nudist?
47. What if….. music never existed?
48. What if….. we all controlled every aspect of our own lives, even the weather?
49. What if….. we had gills?
50. What if….. we were robots?

If Frankie doesn't get you, Karma will

In the first couple of hours, just following the point that we were introduced, she was stuck under my ring. With her base wedged between my middle finger and the ring that resides there, her face extended passed my outstretched hand. She would later repay me for this discomfort, in the parking lot. In a rush to reach my car I dropped her in the parking lot. There she was, face down and all alone. I bent down and swiped her up without slowing pace. That’s when I heard the tearing sound, coming from my left knee. The burning sensation then set it, followed by the pain, and the, “Damn, you’re an idiot,” thought refused to leave my head. I continued toward the car, answering the phone and throwing my stuff in the car. This time the V.I.P was placed in the first-class cup holder, as I pushed the Start button on my car and headed home. I picked up Ginny, my girlfriend, and the two of us headed to the car dealership. She was in an accident a while back and finally decided to get her vehicle repaired, mainly because the insurance company was threatening to close the claim. On our way I decided to introduce her to my homework. As I explained the assignment, she held the fork with a confused face. When I finished, “You should call her Frankie, Frankie The Fork” she said. “What makes you think she’s a girl,” I asked. “Of course she’s a girl” she replied, then placed her back in her V.I.P first-class seat where she still remains today.