You wake up and you're the only one alive. What do you do?

[Laggartha]

I've just started watching I Think We're Alone Now and this is the premise. I'm only 8 minutes in and we've just seen how our hero spends his time.

I think it's a fascinating idea so I had to pause it to consider what I would do. What would you do?

I’d style my hair like Tina Turner and make a Thunderdome dress and High Queen staff. Then I move from house to house never washing up and train all the cats to follow me. Meow.

I think I'd panic about where my dp and dc are

I think about this a lot!

1. I would have a lie in followed by an indulgent breakfast
2. Have a scout around the neighbourhood to check there is no-one around
3. Work out a plan for moving somewhere with a warm and sunny climate
4. Find a property set up for self sufficiency, ideally with a way of heating water etc.
5. Assuming the internet stops working, find a library and do some research on basics of self sufficiency
6. If animals still exist find a dog for some companionship
7. Find basic medical supplies including pain free methods for suicide in case of accidents etc
8. If I have a generator and a freezer stockpile yummy food
9. Once set up I will spend my time lying in the sun, getting fit and reading. After a while I will get bored though so I will learn to sail and explore the med.

I don't get any time on my own at the moment so this sounds great to me.

Eat chocolate. Who cares now!

Is everyone else dead, are there bodies everywhere? Or have they just disappeared rapture-style? Am I upset about this at all or does the magical realism of the scenario extend to me happily accepting my new reality? Do I have my dogs?

I’d go to the shops and get loads of fresh foods that will quickly perish and I’d have difficulty growing by myself in future. Avocados and tropical fruit and such. And things like yoghurts and cheese and fresh cream cakes and stuff that I won’t be making for myself and all going to go off really quickly. I’d also commandeer and move into this grade 2 listed Georgian house that is right next to my favourite woodland walk that I covet just a little (it’s on the market.....for 5 times what my house is worth!), start a vegetable garden there and makeover all the rooms by raiding DIY stores and Liberty. Might have to take a truck to drive down to Liberty and load up.

Do we get to keep electricity and gas and water supplies? Or do I have to get my Georgian mansion off-grid? Does the internet still work? Might have to spend the first few months online teaching myself how to set up solar panels and things!

If we don’t have electricity I might decide to prepare for a (very) long distance hike down to southern Spain tbh. Assuming I could walk through the channel tunnel.

Sleep.

Get my gear squared away and then go on an adventure to see some of the stuff Were not allowed to see.

Behind the scenes in a museum. Get really up close to artworks you have to see from such a distance.

Open a stupidly expensive bottle of wine and see what all the fuss is about. Not that it would matter but I could have a chuckle if it’s a bit shit. Ditto food.

Open a brand new set of sheets every single night to sleep it.

Pretty tame but it would be great to do that an wander the world without interruption too.

Finally be able to breathe and actually relax for once

I think I'd enjoy the peace and quiet for a minute and then need someone to talk to. I might have gone quite mad by the end of the first week.

Worry about heating, safe drinking water, toilets & lights I guess.

Depends so much on how everybody else has disappeared.

I mean if they just vanish without explanation you could get on with things. But if the streets are full of corpses you need to get out of town and somewhere remote pretty quickly as the towns will be full of disease and rats.

I read a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction. Best plan is generally load up on supplies (tinned food, medicine, bottled water, fuel, batteries, cleaning products, sturdy clothes) and then head somewhere remote for a while, hole up and try to spot other survivors.

Eat chocolate. Who cares now!

Who cares about you eating choc now?

Go to the nearest hospital and defrost some sperm.

Ha, I wanted to ask if there had been a rapture but could not remember the bloody word! Just spent twenty minutes formulating a definition to get the correct word and others have got there first. If the place is full of dead bodies you'd want to get away quick. Maybe find a department store with frozen food department if there is power to live in for a while. If in the USA may have guns there too for hunting and defense.

Worse case I sometimes wonder about what if we all woke up normally but the sun never rose? How long before complete panic?

I honestly think it wouldn't be long before i kill myself tbh!

@burgerjack

Eat chocolate. Who cares now!

Who cares about you eating choc now?

I actually think it's the opposite. Because there's no healthcare, especially dentistry, you'd need to avoid sugar.

People don't realise that bad teeth killed a LOT of people before modern dentistry.

Id probably end up killing myself

Shout for my partner and child. Try their phones.
Hit the supermarket and stock up.
Wouldn't matter if I broke in. May make sense to live there for a while.
Go to the cattery and get a few cats to love
Do a big drive looking for threats aka other people
Stock up on free petrol while I could.
Test drive lots of different cars.
Worry about my failing eyes and teeth. It's not like I can sort them out by myself.
Take over the new houses next door to me and knock our fences through.

Dress up in my bravest outfit. Take a flask and head to the all the places I avoid cos if it being too busy!

see some of the stuff Were not allowed to see
Ooh, perhaps I’ll spend some time doing that in London before heading off to Spain. Assuming no dead bodies laying about the place.

Have a wander around Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament, get some paintings from the Tate for my Georgian mansion . All the museums to myself.

Oh - what is going to happen to all the animals at the zoo? Can they disappear too please so there is no suffering and starving to death because the humans have gone. Just please leave me my own pets!

One thought is no one is going to come and take my rubbish or recycling away each week. So I might think more carefully about what I bring back to base, as none of it, packaging or anything, is ever going to leave!

Unplug my neighbour’s hot tub and listen to the silence instead of the non-stop humming noise coming from it. Bliss.

@LemonViolet

see some of the stuff Were not allowed to see Ooh, perhaps I’ll spend some time doing that in London before heading off to Spain. Assuming no dead bodies laying about the place.

Have a wander around Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament, get some paintings from the Tate for my Georgian mansion . All the museums to myself.

Oh - what is going to happen to all the animals at the zoo? Can they disappear too please so there is no suffering and starving to death because the humans have gone. Just please leave me my own pets!

One thought is no one is going to come and take my rubbish or recycling away each week. So I might think more carefully about what I bring back to base, as none of it, packaging or anything, is ever going to leave!

Wear the Crown Jewels like a Xmas party hat

@TheQueef

Skin up.

You'd have to ration it though, you'd have no future supply. Although, you could cultivate your own

I guess I would start burying the bodies?

Yeah, he does that, but there aren't that many and they are more like hairy skeletons at this point. Shall we just agree that they've all disappeared rapture-like?

I was thinking you could spend a lot of your time collecting pet food and feeding pets, but what about all of the ones trapped in houses? I'd love to have a dog or 6, but perhaps it's kinder if they've gone too?

I was thinking that I'd go and live in the university in the nearby town because it has a tall building (good for a look-out and I feel scared) and I'm familiar with the place. However, I like pp idea about travelling south for warmth.

(The film was a bit rubbish btw).

Find a sperm bank and try and continue the species.