Today as I walked through Fry’s here in Burbank Ca, I had an overwhelming sense of what I’d call a Doctor Who Experience. Let me try and explain…
Sure we’re currently going through a depression, but it really kicked me in the gut today as I found myself in one of the largest electronic chains in the Western hemisphere only to find that I was one of maybe ten customers.
I instantly found myself detached from reality. I felt, It felt like Steve was outside in the car (back in 2010) and I was a time traveler sent to witness the final days of the modern era reflected in one of this times greatest achievements, the Consumer Electronic Mega Store.
I started to think like a time traveler. All this technology had a fatal flaw, electricity. Everything in front of me was useless junk without the life-blood of alternating current. A primitive almost barbaric form of energy in the future. (The Doctor would say that.)
Looking around I could feel the stench of impending economic doom on the faces of the employees but what could I do, I’m just visiting this time line.
Ironically adding to the surrealism of the moment, I was only there to purchase the latest Doctor Who DVDs. One even called “The End of Time.” After locating the DVDs on a primitive shelf attachment, I walked around the empty store detached and reflecting to myself, this is how it was before the end.
I had to leave, it was too weird. I found myself facing the person that points you to an open cashier, she looked at me like I was a ghost as I turned to see over 10 green lights blinking on and off over available cashiers. I simply walked to the nearest one and paid for the DVD ‘s with green paper known in this time as cash.
Upon walking out of the store I felt like I had just crossed over a threshold, a perspective that only happens sometimes with Déjà vu, recalling a dream, or in my case this strange Doctor Who experience.
Was this a side effect of last nights drinking or just a perpetual Doctor Who lifestyle disorder that manifested during a trip to Fry’s? I’m not sure, however the gray skies and closed up auto stereo installation bay outside the store seemed to instantly ground me back to 2010, and I wasn’t driving a Tardis.
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I vote for the previous nights drinking having an effect on your frontal lobes. You actually went to a store to buy something? You did go back in time. We are living in a Virtual world and I’m just a Virtual guy. Sorry Madonna.
Shows like Doctor Who I tend to purchase new and in store. I don’t mind supporting that show with my dollar.
The world may be living on video but I still travel outwards in search of dvds etc.