Wednesday 15 May 2024

Gridding your teeth

Are you as excited about the future as I am?

A Jetson-esque future of clean electric cars, no traffic, fresh air and a clean earth to live on.

It's coming soon. You know it's coming. You can feel it like an electric current in your bones. 

No, not the kind that powers an electric chair, to punish you for unspeakable crimes.

The kind that gives you goose bumples all over and excites you to live fully.

It's coming.

Oh. Except all that it takes to bring down the electrical grid that powers your dreams is a tiny little squirrel. Like the one that took out all of downtown Toronto.

One meagre rodent, among millions. Totally spoils the party. Second time it's happened in a month.

No more cars. No air conditioning. No heat. No TTC. No future.

You know the squirrel is coming.

Grid your teeth.