I noticed there was no Flash Fiction Fridays for a while. So, I've thought to write my own. Well, really, I've had ideas popping into my head like crazy lately and thought to keep mine going...
enjoy.
1st, May, 2018
I thought having Netflix would be a great
idea; so did my parents and friends. But we had problems from the very start
with the installation of it. The damned thing just wouldn't work!
Every time I wanted to watch something, the
television couldn't connect to my wi-fi or Netflix itself would have signed me
out for some reason or another; and the very idea that it was doing this all
the time during the trial period was really pissing me off.
And my folks had given Netflix and wi-fi to
me for my birthday; so it should have worked straight up.
However, no matter what happened, it was so
temperamental and weird that I didn't know what to do. One minute it was
working and I could watch anything I wanted, but then it would have its
glitches like you wouldn't believe! I'd stop an episode of something I'd be
watching and go out out Netflix and watch free-to-air television only to come
back hours later to find it was still running the shows I had stopped – it
hadn't stopped at all, or even paused it. So, I'd have to turn off my phone,
the television, the wi-fi and modem and it would sign me out of Netflix and I'd
have to sign back into it.
After two weeks of this happening three
times a day, this was driving me nuts – so much so I just didn't want the
fuckin' thing anymore.
However, I got a lot of things done around
my house.
All my laundry got done, the carpets were
cleaned, the house cleaned out and dusted. The floors were washed and window
sills were scrubbed as well. I spent time renovating my garden and washing the
car too... all of this in just a little over two weeks; and still I was trying
to get my Netflix to work.
I did notice that while I was driving
around my neighbourhood, I didn't see much of my neighbours. They had stopped
having parties, stopped being seen outside and had stopped being very friendly
to anyone around them. When one of them had their power disconnected, he
completely freaked out and the police took him away.
That house stands vacant now... nobody has
seen him since.
Well, okay, I haven't seen him for two
weeks – seeing I can't ask any of my neighbours if they've seen him.
Anyway, last Sunday, I went for a walk
around the streets and found there wasn't a single car around. Sure they were
parked in the driveways and in the streets, but nobody was driving anywhere.
But as I walked past the houses, I saw the people inside their houses staring
at their television screens, watching Netflix movies and television programs.
Of all the times I had to have problems
with my Netflix; and I had to figure out that it was designed to brainwash us
into being the biggest, laziest mammals around! Stepping back from the window
of the people's house – where they didn't even notice me peaking through the
window – I walked back out onto the street, pulled my hood up, shoved my hands
in my jeans pockets and started to walk home.
I was scared to death that what I just saw
was going to me one day; that is if we fixed up my reception on my Netflix.
Gawd, I hope we didn't.
It's been another two weeks and my property
is the best-looking one on the street. Nobody is leaving their houses anymore.
The police have been sending out drones to check up on us all; and every time
they do, I hide from them. I pull the curtains, turn on the television up loud
and sit on the lounge and make out that I'm watching a Netflix movie or a
series of theirs.
But I don't think they're convinced about
me anymore.
My front yard is too tidy and I'm the only
one who goes out to do my shopping in my car in my neighbourhood anymore. The
rest of my neighbours get their groceries home-delivered now; it's as though I
live in a retirement village – or an alien village somewhere like on Mars,
where the air is unbreathable.
Everyone's houses are now horrible-looking
and I wish I knew what to do... except suffer in silence, as I don't know
anyone else whose Netflix doesn't work properly.
You may be asking why I don't contact my
parents or my brother about this, I have. I've been trying to phone them, but
they don't answer any of my messages on the home phone or their mobiles. And
I've checked their Facebook pages and they don't have accounts anymore. It's as
though they no longer exist; and I'm too scared to go to their houses in case I
get picked up for not being where I'm supposed to be... oh crap.
The computer has begun to do a scan.
It's never done that before... I knew I
shouldn't have written this on here.
But how else am I going to get the word out
that something in Netflix is …
hey, my Netflix account is working now.
I'll be back soon... there's a movie I want to see. I'll be back in a day or
so.
I am sorry to have been away for so long.
It's been around three months and I found this on my computer when I jumped on
here today. I meant to come back and finish the article about Netflix and how
it's brainwashing our population; making us lazy.
But really, I don't think it is.
It's a great thing to have added to your
life. There's so many movies and documentaries and wonderful things to follow
on there; and yet it's endless what you can watch.
I love Netflix and the movies I can access
through it....Yes... Netflix is good... Good is Netflix.
Hey there's a light outside – many lights
pouring from the skies above! Wow, look at that! I've never seen a meteor
shower like this before! I have to get my camera to record this!
'… an uncontrolled Human has been detected.'
'Invade as per commanded. Overtake this planet immediately; it must
be conquered. Kill the Human.'
