Congratulations on Feeling the Right Way at a Social Gathering!

As the crowd roars and surges forward against the barriers, crushing the unlucky few who came to the square early to find the best of seats for the execution against the concrete and steel dividers, you’ll feel rage. It’ll be a bleak, helpless kind of rage, both for the crime the men in front of you committed and for the unfairness and rapidity of the trial which has condemned them to death.

Stones will fly from the crowd, occasionally striking one of the men standing on the hastily constructed platform. A man in a uniform will cautiously read from a prepared statement, announcing the charges and evidence levied against the men on stage, but the roar of the crowd will drown him out. There will be no sound but the crowd until the ceremony takes off and the man in a uniform pulls a lever, dropping the floor out from beneath the line of men and forcing them out into the air, where the ropes wrapped around their necks will tighten and snap in an instant that will silence the crowd.

The silence will not last, and even as the anger within you turns to a queer sort of fear, the noise of the crowd will make it really difficult for you to feel anything but vindication for turning in your neighbor earlier that day. Maybe the next neighbor you get will think a little harder before he steals cable from you.

Congratulations on Feeling the Right Way at a Social Gathering!