When Group 3 arrived here, they came
under a series of duress. They had two flat tires and zombies were closing in
from three sides. But you look at the make-up of that group: Two strong, young
men, two pretty girls, a married couple, and a dog. (Note: I am not saying that
Brian isn’t strong or Kelly isn’t pretty. But that close knit married couple
says a lot about their character.) There is a pretty good chance that if they
would have come to the door, knocked on the door, and asked to come in, we
would not have turned them away.
Now, they were also fairly clean cut
and seemed to have been taking care of themselves. Now knowing that they moved
from house to house, they never ran out of soap and shampoo. Fresh clothes were
recycled regularly. They had been taking care of themselves.
And then there were the guys in the
pickup truck. They looked a little like hoodlums. I know, I know. I am
profiling but they didn’t knock. They were trying to be shady. Hey, they went
after our door with a pair of pry-bars. Maybe I am wrong but we all got the
distinct impression that those guys were looking to come in here and take
whatever they wanted. There was not going to be any sort of negotiating or
asking for something they wanted. I think the last thing they expected was to
be staring down several gun barrels when we opened the door. Then there was
Fred’s line of “We would much rather put our bullets in a zombie than in you.”
I think it was a line that says that
we were not going to be aggressive towards them. If they walked away, there
wouldn’t be any trouble. Static: Don’t start none, won’t be none.
Now here is the thing that I am
concerned about. Let’s say that you are just a little bit criminal. A little
bit psychotic. Not a lot. Just a little. Therefore, when the pig spore hit the
wind spinner, they had a little less compunction to slip down into the darkness
and do things that you normally wouldn’t do to survive. Breaking into a house,
stealing a car, grabbing guns, these are all things that the good, moral
upstanding citizens might have a problem doing. They may hesitate. And
hesitation in THIS world gets you killed.
So maybe everyone out there is a
creeper and is someone that we shouldn’t let in here anyway… but Eric and his
group were pretty cool. We want our people to be safe and sound. We want to be
solid. But at the same time, I think we need to maintain an “us vs. the dead”
mentality. Not all people are going to be good people. I understand that. But
those meat bags outside could care less. And anyone that is a hand to hold a
gun against a zom is a good hand to have…
