10/31/2010 The End of the Industrial Era Muzzy's Journal. Everyone knew the day would come; all fossil fuel was exuasted. The wheel of transportation and swung back to the horse and buggy. Tall sailing ships once again test their masts on rough seas. Hydro-electrict turbines and solar powered battries provided only a fraction of what was once a mighty power grid. It is a simpler time with smaller commuties. Their is a need for more horses. I ride in a rickshaw down Main Street in down town Portsmouth with my slave girl Penelope. I purchased her with my chickens. I have taken to raising chickens and selling their eggs in the town square. The rickshaw is pulled by a sturdy lassie. Erin Go Brah is tatooed to her back. She has forsaken her blouse on this hot humid day, pulling her rickshaw bare chested. A very proud lassie. Penelope, a petite spanish girl of 22, chatters on about Scientology. She believes she will empower herself on my chicken farm. I promiss to teach her how to read english after her chores. I ask the rickshaw lassie to stop at the @Rusty Hammer and waite. It's time for some ale; I place my slave girl at a table and order some tomatoe soup and orange juice for her. The severing wench is a wild gypsy, who answers to Ghidora. Her raven hair and firey Romanian eyes beckon to me. I ask the barkeep if I may purchase the gypsy with my basket of chickens. He agrees. The gypsy' temperment has led to many fights amongst the men folk and ladies. Upon leaving the @Rusty Hammer with my slave girls, I discover with amazement my Scottish rickshaw lassie bathing in the horse troth; with several men folk assitting her, pumping water and scrubbing her with bars of soap. "Here now! That's my transportation!" My plea is answered with jeers, "She needed a good scrubbing down!" It was several hours before the men folk finished their civic duty. I had time for some more ale. Such is the simple life at the end of the industrial era. I must enquire about this Scottish lassie; perhaps a wagon of pumkins will secure her price. :) |