In every horror movie where a group
of people are trapped inside somewhere, they always seem to have a fall black
plan. “If they breech this line of defense, we will fall back here.” The tough
and plucky sergeant is always telling that to the troops as he is pointing to a
map.
For a time, we considered building
an Alamo type structure inside the store in case we were breeched. Inevitably,
this plan was abandoned. We never came to this because we have already broken
the cardinal advantage against the zoms themselves by barricading ourselves
within this store. We have taken away our advantage to outrun them.
A smart zombie professor teaching a
class would tell you to just outrun the zombie threat or the zombie terror.
Those would be wise words. The problem is we are in the zombie apocalypse. As
Nina Simone once asked, “Oh Sinner Man, where you gonna run to?” That is the
million dollar question. You can only run for so long. Eventually, you have to
sleep. You have to eat. So we are in the right here by barricading ourselves
inside.
If a shambling horde were to come by
and let’s say they are smart enough to move the cars barricading the door and
manage to push their way inside. Once they are inside and see us, they are
going to be issuing their “We found food!” keening wails that is going to draw
even more of them to us.
The number one priority in that
situation (after staying safe) is sealing that breech. It doesn’t matter if we
can kill one hundred zoms if there are 10,000 more waiting to stream inside. Hiding
in an Alamo is only delaying the inevitable.
And it is one thing to go off the
radar when we are out of sight and out of mind. That would not happen with zoms
if they are inside the store. They would constantly be searching for us and
tearing things up to get at us.
In the unlikely event that this does
happen, that we experience a full blown breech, everyone knows that your target
goal is the Ice Cream Freezer. The top of the ice cream freezer can allow us to
get to the roof. The roof does offer us security because we know zoms cannot
climb. And from the roof we can get to the buses and that is when we leave it
all behind. And we move on down the road.
But if it comes to that, it is because
something horribly wrong has happened, like someone driving an armored truck or
a tank through our front door. And if someone has a tank and they want our
little grocery store, uh, yeah. They can have it…
