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?

The worst
Is your not alone ,just one ugly bastard ,and it’s down to you both to create more humans

I think I would move here or sonewhere similar
www.dezeen.com/2013/04/26/off-grid-home-in-extremadura-stable-conversion-by-abaton/

@zombielady

I think I'd just wander from town to town, having a nosy, sleeping in mansions, wearing nice jewellery

^ This - I hope it's just you and me @zombielady cos I think we'd get on.

Assuming I’m not grief stricken / freaked out in this scenario:

First up - assuming electricity and internet would hang on in there for a little while - I’d research stuff I’d be unlikely to find in books. Find someone who writes a blog about their enviable sustainable, off-grid small-holding type lifestyle. Find out where it they live and get the address so I can plan to take it over. Would need to make sure it had its own water supply. Also research anything dodgy I’m unlikely to read about in books (how to get hold of guns? Drugs?).

Then I’d head into London and live in Claridges for a couple of days. Raid the fridges ad eat fresh lobster, caviar, patisserie etc while I still could because it’ll be a diet of tinned food and whatever I can grow from here on in. While I am there I’d perform some raids on fancy shops - kit myself out with everything from high-end hiking gear and warm clothes through to ball dresses and tiaras (why not).

Then find trucks. Like PPs idea of a post Office Depot (surely we’ll be able to break in and find keys, no need to hot wire anything?) Get to Harrods and load up all their fancy but non-perishable goods while I am still in London. Then a big supermarket and empty shelves of tinned food, pasta and and bottled water.

Locate a warehouse close to my small holding that I can use to store food. I’m going to be aiming to fill it with tinned food over the next few weeks - do some maths on how many hundreds of packs of pasta, tuna, tinned tomatoes etc I am going to get through in 40 or so years I might be lucky to live for.

Then a hospital to get drugs and medical supplies.

Garden centre for seeds and tools.

Find some dogs and cats to keep me company. And chickens. Some goats or cows for milk.

I think that’s a good start?

@Bubbinsmakesthree

Assuming I’m not grief stricken / freaked out in this scenario:

First up - assuming electricity and internet would hang on in there for a little while - I’d research stuff I’d be unlikely to find in books. Find someone who writes a blog about their enviable sustainable, off-grid small-holding type lifestyle. Find out where it they live and get the address so I can plan to take it over. Would need to make sure it had its own water supply. Also research anything dodgy I’m unlikely to read about in books (how to get hold of guns? Drugs?).

Then I’d head into London and live in Claridges for a couple of days. Raid the fridges ad eat fresh lobster, caviar, patisserie etc while I still could because it’ll be a diet of tinned food and whatever I can grow from here on in. While I am there I’d perform some raids on fancy shops - kit myself out with everything from high-end hiking gear and warm clothes through to ball dresses and tiaras (why not).

Then find trucks. Like PPs idea of a post Office Depot (surely we’ll be able to break in and find keys, no need to hot wire anything?) Get to Harrods and load up all their fancy but non-perishable goods while I am still in London. Then a big supermarket and empty shelves of tinned food, pasta and and bottled water.

Locate a warehouse close to my small holding that I can use to store food. I’m going to be aiming to fill it with tinned food over the next few weeks - do some maths on how many hundreds of packs of pasta, tuna, tinned tomatoes etc I am going to get through in 40 or so years I might be lucky to live for.

Then a hospital to get drugs and medical supplies.

Garden centre for seeds and tools.

Find some dogs and cats to keep me company. And chickens. Some goats or cows for milk.

I think that’s a good start?

Sounds good to me

I think it would be nice for a little while, but in the end you'd go mad!

I would: go for a long walk, maybe breaking some nice houses to see how they live(d), stock up on food (will electric still work if nobody is there to work for the company? Better not get freezer stock etc), walk the streets knowing it's safe, and probably die of a preventable cause because no doctors pretty fast!

No need to set yourself up, governments around d the world have underground bunkers ready so id just find where they are. Stock it up with some nicer food that will last.

Lots of looting to start with

It wouldn't be looting. Or theft. There could be no intent to permanently deprive another of their property - because there's no one else left to own anything. You'd be sole custodian of every item on Earth.

I'd get a stash of medicines for every eventuality, prioritizing ones that I could take to end my life swiftly and painlessly so that I could always have that option in reserve. Get hold of books on medicine, treatment of injuries etc.

Drive to a sunnier location where there was good and safe fishing, probably freshwater as that is likely to be safer than sea fishing. Pick up loads of seed packets en route. Get hold of books and info on planting crops, catching and preparing fish, killing animals humanely and butchering animals. Work out how to get crops of vegetables from existing vegetables when my seed packets run out (feeling very naive here!)

Take over a small holding with a beautiful farmhouse, which had been exceptionally well maintained, and had good access to fresh running water and a small amount of animals and crops that I could work with. The farmhouse would have fireplaces in every room.

Find and work equipment for getting wood supplies for burning... chainsaw, tractor etc. Ensure I had lots of fuel to work them for the forseeable. Get hold of books on mechanics to see if I could fix problems that went wrong with tractors.

Fashion a purposeful life as best I could and always hold out that there would be survivors out there somewhere! And definitely try to get hold of radio for the purpose of trying to connect.

So, first of all, I found a link to a documentary about people in love with the the woman who sang that song, so I need to back track to find the name of the film as it sounds interesting!

But my first thought in answer to your question was that I'd shave my head. This is weird as my hair is my pride and joy. I think I'd then panic about the loss of electricity and running water as the provision of those would break down at some point so I'd want to get a wood burning stove. I would worry about animals, we don't really have anything scary here but what if animals escaped from the zoo?

Once I'd worried about these things I think I'd then drink for a while, and take up smoking again as I worked through the losses. I imagine, in the absence of threats from animals, I could then at some point ease into quite a nice quiet state.

If my family were gone id kill myself, what would be the point?

Last man on earth on prime is this exact premise. Worth a watch though it does get a bit silly in places.

Go back to sleep. If that was still the situation when I woke up, go down the road, put a rock through the pharmacy window, find a lot of controlled substances, bring them home and take them. Go back to sleep. I’m not remotely interested in living a subsistence lifestyle or being “a survivor” in that scenario.

Eat all the cheese and drink all the wine.

Eat loads but then probs do myself in because if there's no-one but me, what's the bloody point??

Cry and hyperventilate for a few days.

Reminds me of Five,the character in the Umbrella Academy.

Find food and water.
Find fuel.
Find entertainment.

@JazzyJelly

Free all the animals in cages so they have a chance.

Exactly what I was going to say! I've thought about this before. I used to live in London. I'd go get a horse to ride about on, from the riding centre on Walthamstow Marshes, and let the rest of the horses and ponies out.

Then I'd head up to London Zoo and let loads of the animals out except the massive predators.

I'd have to decide if I wanted to try to conceive children by working out how to break into sperm banks, and risk my own life giving birth unaided, to try to restart the human race, or just forget it and live the rest of my days out drinking the poshest champagne, reading books, and swimming in the sea. As I'm very old to be a mum, I'd need to decide pretty quickly.

I've now read the thread and clarified my thoughts a bit more.

I didn't know petrol evaporated but I think my world would stay small anyway. I think I would stay in my current home but turn my neighbours gardens into vegetable patches. One house could be root veg, another fruit trees, I think I would become vegan as I'm already pescatarian and I really like the idea of cows and sheep roaming around happily.

I'd also stay in my current house because my location is safe from storms, far enough from the sea (tsunamis), from earth quakes, from tornadoes and hurricanes and volcanos. Lovely bland middle england.

I'd look up where my favourite clothes shops are located and collect a van full of wool and cotton clothing and put them into storage so that moths didn't get to them. Maybe one of my neighbour's houses could be my clothing storage.

What I really struggle with is feeling safe alone, and it's awful but I think I would want a gun. I hope that would pass.

Re the tinned and dried food and medicine I think I would leave all of that in the shops. They would be mine anyway and it's all nicely stored there already.

Re the fresh produce I think I would cook up elaborate meals and use all my neighbours freezer spaces to store until the electricity ran out.

I think another neighbour's property would be full of water collection bins....

Several lovely quiet cups of coffee would be first.
If covid is anything to go by I wouldn't miss people for at least the first year.

Break into my local supercar dealership, grab a Ferrari, drive it down to Silverstone & have some fun.

@Parkerwhereareyou

Go to the nearest hospital and defrost some sperm.

100% know you are female.

I would get lost instantly because I have no sense of direction.

Head towards shelter and make a list of what I need to find shops to loot. Hopefully I am in a city. If I were in the wilderness, I suspect I would die pretty quickly from exposure and not being able to find food and safe drinking water.

If my dcs were not with me, I would not mind dying. It is the process of dying that scares me, not actual death.

Grudgingly put the kettle on because it's not like any bugger else is going to make me my morning cuppa.

All the sperm people... you would 100% not be repopulating the earth. It is impossible (and repulsive since it involves incest).

I seriously can't understand the logic.