“The zombie apocalypse won’t break out when it’s convenient.” – Kristen Lamb last week at the NILA residency.*

by Dave R Farmer of WANA Commons

Whether you blame Max Brooks or George Romero, many people these days have a contingency plan ready for the seemingly inevitable zombie apocalypse.  The CDC is ready, and there maybe some scientific basis for it (seriousness not guaranteed).  Which begs the question – when is the best time for the zombie apocalypse to hit?

For me, I would prefer to see the zombies strike while I’m at either DunDraCon or Pacificon.  At those gaming conventions I get together with friends who could form a formidable emergency team: combatants, hunters, campers, cooks, even clothiers.  Every one of us has something to contribute to our post-apocalypse survival.  The only real problem I see is that I’d be some eight hundred miles from my cats, and who can count on a cat sitter to continue her duties while zombies stalk her brains?

On the other hand, our cat sitter is pretty dedicated.  I wonder if she can handle a shotgun…

But that’s the best time – when would be the worst?

For me, I would hate to see it happen during a layover between flights.  Alone, unarmed, and supplied with only the contents of my carry-on bag, I would be stuck in an indefensible position in a strange city.

I could just see it starting: I’m flying from Portland to … let’s say Miami … with a layover in Denver.  I’m finishing a soda in the food court, when a flight from New York lands.  That flight contains patient zero, who infected the whole passenger section, including the flight attendants.  Only the pilots survive, tucked behind their post-9/11 safety door.  The horde deplanes, drawn by instinct to the baggage carousels…

What do you think?  When would be the best time for the zombie apocalypse?  What about the worst?

*Yes, I graduated last August.  I was there as a TA.

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