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its a mad mad world

I’m a regular fellow. I live a regular life. I wear regular clothes. I have a regular job. So what I say next is not only irregular but just plain weird. I cannot explain it. I don’t think anyone can. I’m hoping you can. So the story begins like this- once upon a time on a sunny day in North Carolina. Or wait, was it California. Well, it doesn’t really matter. I woke up to an incessant ringing, the damn alarm clock, an hour late. I don’t know how people can function like clockwork. Waking up with the first ring, it’s unnatural. The ringing doesn’t do it for me, I don’t even hear it. And then I hear an annoying sound at the back of my head, and then... But I digress. I finally got dressed and left. And what I saw was complete chaos. In front of me was a miracle. It was a miracle that there wasn’t a comical pile-up of cars yet. There were cars everywhere- going in every possible direction. There were cars on the pavement! What was going on? As I came onto the main road, I saw the stran