On Friday 31st December 2010 Dave & Kate entered Kaisers at 3.10pm to stock up on some groceries for the next few days. The Zombies were all out buying their zombie juice and each check-out had a queue stretching to the back of the store. It was 4.20pm before they got out and only 5 mins of that was spent selecting food.
That afternoon their neighbourhood in Friedrichshain resembled a war-zone. Loud bangs and explosions going off all over the place as the menacing atmosphere of the living dead grew.
Dropping their groceries off at their bunker they made their way through the streets like nervous animals not sure when or where they might be bombed. MacBeam, the nearby internet cafe they used, was closed so they headed back down the streets.
One moment summed up the collective insanity of the human race. A grown man walking towards Dave, Kate and another young couple in front, lit up a firecracker, watched them come towards him, threw it on the snow in front of them all and walked past with a manic grin on his face.
Dave, Kate and the young couple stopped, waited for it to explode like a bomb before walking on. More explosions assaulted their ears as they quickly retreated to the safety of their bunker. Later that night they watched the madness continue on tv, some guy singing "What A Wonderful Life" in front of the Brandenburg Gate and then David Hasselhoff sing "I've Been Looking For Freedom". Dave & Kate were too, with the amount of legal explosives going off in the courtyard and all around the neighbourhood. What a wonderful world.
As they sheltered themselves in their bunker, watching the crowds on tv, the irony didn't escape them that those very people who were setting off explosions and getting all excited about it were probably the same people who would be out on the very same streets again protesting the next war.
