Thinking about how you’re going to die isn’t exactly my idea of a fun past time, but imagining scenarios where you’d suddenly have to defend yourself, or you’d find yourself in danger from an unexpected assailant, that’s something different. That scratches some evolutionary survival itch deep in my brain.
That’s probably why I’ve spent entirely too much time scrolling through this weird thread on r/AskReddit. The prompting question was:
The closest orange object is the cause of your death – how do you die?
– QuelynD
Check out some of these responses:
1. Things got graphic, fast
A plastic crab toy.
It comes to life. I try to crush it, I can’t, it is still plastic. It is too fast.
Before I know what’s happened it’s skittered it’s way up my leg and quickly scales upward.
It plunges a now deadly plastic claw into my neck. I bleed out, while still sitting on the toilet.
– jsboklahoma1987
2. Some folks are their own worst enemy
As a ginger, I am strangled to death by my own hair. What a way to go.
– Uncuyuke
3. Oh God nobody look at Trump
I’m going to get murdered by the one girl in my math class that has a bad spray tan
– Tatopami
4. The Earth will reclaim us
Dunkin donuts straw.
Revenge of the sea turtles
– Co-Ve
5. You’re not surprised?
A 6’ tall inflatable turkey…. I can’t say I’m surprised
– Ectomorpheus_
6. Revenge of the Raptor
my parrot is constantly trying to kill me lately…
this time she succeeds in her quest to rediscover her dinosaur roots
– frogz0r
7. There’s no place like home-icide
The walls of my house are orange so I guess the house collapses and kills me
I never leave my house and now I die in it.
What a way to go
– quckcro
8. I knew he was trouble
I guess I’m going to die a Gritty death.
– Swedish_Chef_Bork_x3
9. I’m sorry, Jon…
My human sized cardboard Garfield wants lasagna, and apparently I didn’t deliver
– bad-advice-donkey
10. Your toy what with its what now?
My little toy alpaca becomes alive and throws its decorative pompoms at me, which are surprisingly deadly
– keeperofthakeys
11. You’ll meet a traffic end
I always knew he would get me
– DrMussintouchit
12. Why so serious?
Hm, just a pen…
…alright, who wants to see a magic trick?
– newsorpigal
13. Can you overdose on a vitamin?
Ironically killed by a packet of Emergen-C
– JustALittleNightcap
14. Some feared unseen dangers
Now im paranoid because of my colorblindness.
– literallybrother
15. Others discovered superpowers
I genuinely looked around my room and didn’t find anything orange.
I’m immortal bitches!!!
– Galactic_Gecko
Ok, my turn. My closest orange object is a Chicago “No Parking on Tuesday” notice I found lying around somewhere and decided to put on the wall a while back. As I write this, it is a Tuesday. And I realize, I am sat at my desk. Parked. The law will be enforced. My fate will be sealed.
What can you see around you that you think is the most likely to do you in?
Describe the scenario in the comments.