After successfully building my time machine, I travelled forward to 22-12-2012, the day after the end of the Apocalypse.
What I saw frightened me, a burning, desolate, charred, dead wasteland. A sense of desolation, deep inconsolable loneliness & hopelessness washed over me.
I cried for mankind, for what we had done to ourselves & each other, for all the war, hate, anger and rage we had waged upon our planet & our fellow man. I was truly lost.
Then a chirpy little Asian voice piped up “Taxi mate?”