You are the last person on Earth. What is your daily routine after the initial shock wears off?

[crocop69]

- Go get a puppy from a pet store so I have a companion
- Burn down houses and just destroy shit
- Go find the fastest car at a car dealership and just have fun with that
- Blow up petrol stations
- Just burn down a lot of shit and destroy a lot of shit coz why not?
- If i need food just go to the supermarket and get canned goods and water
- Make my way from city to city just exploring and eventually burning down everything then move on to next one
- Have the time of my life

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Let's just say all the people in the world just vanish into thin air. Depending on the kind of person you are, you'll probably either freak out (and maybe off yourself), or have a crazy awesome time.

Either way, after some time the surprise will wear off. There's not much you haven't done, so you fall into a sort of routine.

Question is, now that there's nobody around to give you shit, what do you do every day? If you don't think you would eventually follow a routine, what do you do instead?

Strangely enough OP, you've eliminated what most people would spend their time doing. In your hypothetical you establish that everyone else in the world has vanished, but what most people would do if they woke up and found their town deserted would be to range far and wide trying (with increasing desperation) to find other people.

But ... yeah. Raid the local gun store, scavenge, hunt for food, look for other survivors, stockpile fuel and teach myself how to break down and rebuild a generator. Yay for practicality.

 

[Joccaren]

On the first day I wouldn't go crazy wild, I also wouldn't freak out and go insane.

I'd find myself to the nearest place that sells methanol, mix 300mL with a bunch of soft drink, and drink it. The enzymes in my body will convert the methanol into formaldehyde, of which 30mL is potentially deadly, and I'll die within a few hours.

I've got no reason to live without the rest of humanity. Only reason I enjoy life as it is is because of the people I spend it with, and even then that doesn't cut it sometimes. Were my whole reason for living removed, I'd quite likely go with it.

 

[___________________]

I'd just walk about, checking things out. After that, it would depend on my level of insanity.

 

[KOMega]

As soon as I realize I am the last person, I use whatever leftover water or electricity that is still running to look up the locations of everything, including the closest nuclear power plant and get the hell away from that.

Steal someone's car (Hey they aren't using it anymore) stockpile all the foods, fuel and stuff in the car.

Maybe find someone's farm (hopefully with generator too.) and spend my life there as I take a crash course on farming.

Eventually go crazy and probably die by doing something dangerously stupid.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Well giving up all pretensions of making a long-term renewable power source and stocking food and trying to find any other survivors and whatnot, and assuming I don't go out of my fucking mind and kill myself, I'd try to find a house with solar panels, hook up my PS3, go and steal all the food and games I could ever want, play them all as long as I live...

...no, I probably would commit suicide at some point. Really. I'd probably last a few weeks now that I've read this thread and prepared.

EDIT: Oh look at that, suicide is the prevailing option anyway. Faced with the disappearance of every other person, I suspect that's about the most likely thing.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

Most important thing. Grab a gun and lots of ammunition. Even though there's on zombie apocalypse. With everyone gone the wildlife will soon enter the cities.

And i dont wan't to have the "A wild stag appears" expirience while being unarmed. Besides that though.. travel around look at stuff that interests me. Vatican for example, i bet they probably have alot of old interesting stuff.

 

[Angelous Wang]

Find stable food, lots and lots of stable food.

All the bread, dairy and other perishable food is going to be gone within a months. No meat or other frozen food once the freezers go (unless animals are still around and you feel like hunting)... hope you like pasta forever.

Powers going to go out within a year too (depends on how long back power store last vs everything left), so better stock up on light and heat sources.

Better start studding medical books too, you get injured from now on you are the only one who can fix you.

Seriously it going to be so much more of a massive pain in ass adjustment than most people think. It's almost like getting sent back to the stone age.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

-Figure out a way to get food, and keep getting food. (hunt, farm, raid grocery stores, ext)
-Find some nice, sturdy shelter away from danger and make myself at home.
-Raid a bookstore and read until I'm sick of reading.
-Draw until I'm sick of drawing.
-Start getting lonely because I have no one to share the experience with.
-Kill myself or die of loneliness, assuming I didn't already die of some horrible disease and a lack of doctors.

 

[Thaluikhain]

When you say everyone...Peterson isn't dead is he?

 

[Smeatza]

Honestly? I'd probably go around breaking into houses out of curiosity.
Then burn each house down as I go just to make sure I don't backtrack.
Maybe install myself as the alpha male in a pack of dogs.

I imagine generators, fuel, food and water will be relatively easy to come buy if you're literally the only human left.

 

[sky14kemea]

Surely the appeal of being the last person there is you can do whatever you want without lawful limitations?

I'd probably aim to do something different everyday. Perhaps walk across europe (Since everyone is gone, I can just pick a nice house to spend the night in/steal camping equipment.)

Then when I get back, pick a nice big house and decorate it like a giant fort.

One thing I'd definitely do is go into one of the big stadiums and sing on the stage.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I guess I'd spend the first few days doing whatever I want. Eventually, I might go nuts... or I could look up some books on survival...

 

[omegaweopon]

If you think about it heavily, this is actually the plot of Minecraft. Inexplicably you are by yourself, in the middle of the world, with nothing but your own creative ability to keep yourself alive, and facing down your own personal demons, trying to stay alive as long as you can, and building in your spare time.

Clearly.

 

[Lightknight]

Get some decent traveling gear/survival stuff.

Find places that I'd like to live that are near easy/reliable food sources and climates that I can personally handle.

Then spend my days raiding nearby stores for necessities and luxuries. Especially solar panels/batteries/gun stores for hunting/propane storage places/seed and plant stores/tools/medicine and medical equipment that I could actually use on myself if necessary. I'd get as large a library as possible with as many how-to books as I can find.

Water would potentially be the biggest hassel. Hopefully I can find a few dosen lifestraws for the easiest filtering.

I'd probably build a structure that would be more suited to living without AC but still able to store goodes long-term.

Then it's just waiting for the inevitable end. By then, hopefully I'll have a timecapsule large enough to generally catalogue human history if ever its found.

 

[Randomologist]

ARISE MY CHIMPANZEE MINIONS

Let's see if we can go from stone tools and sticks to rifles. It'll be like the longest ever game of Civilization.

 

[purplecactus]

First off I'd find myself a suitable base, something like an empty warehouse (there are a lot of them around my area). Then I'd go pinch a large van and start stockpiling resources. Food, water, portable generators, survival kit, petrol, that kind of thing. I'd also take advantage of the remaining few days of internet to print off anything I needed to know or wanted to preserve.

Stage two, once I'd gathered a fair amount of resources, would be to begin a project, 'cause I need to keep busy otherwise my mental state tends to deteriorate. This project would be building living quarters in my shiny new warehouse. During that time I suppose my routine would consist of a little construction and a little learning (how to farm/hunt/live without electricity etc) daily, with breaking into houses on days off. I'd be primarily gathering books, food, and other handy things (like maybe a nice sofa or bed or something), but I can't pretend I wouldn't snoop.

Stage three would be exploration and planning for the long term. I've got a van, a bike (and believe me, I would have stolen several incredible bikes by then), a map, and the whole of Britain. There are places I'd love to go, mountains I'd love to climb. During my travels I'd be on the look out for somewhere perfect, somewhere I can settle and farm (and assuming animals haven't vanished, it wouldn't just be rearing veg and the like). I would return to my warehouse either every weekend or whenever my van got full, whichever comes first.

Stage four could be a long, long time down the line (assuming I haven't gone nuts or killed myself). It would see me in that perfect place, a house with solar power, plenty of storage space, a working farm, and one hell of a library. From there I'd live out the rest of my days, continually reading, learning, and keeping myself as physically fit as I could stand (because I actually find that fun, so...). It'd probably cross my mind at some point to actually try and document history and speculate as to what happened to the human race, then bury it as a time capsule for future archeologists to find.

...heh, I enjoyed planning that far too much.

 

[Username Redacted]

Depending on how intact things are and whether or not I need to set up a way to generate electricity that will either be item #1 or completely disregarded. Find some guns. Plant a garden. Maybe try and round up animals that taste good. Once the basics are taken care of I'll be trying to figure out where people with massive vintage video game collections lived so I can go take their stuff. I'll obviously need multiple copies of olde time consoles in case of breakage or to salvage parts. I also figure that since computer games are no longer being developed that if I loot the hell out of a parts shop that that should more or less set me up for life for PC gaming. So basically once I've got a 40-50 year backlog of games I'll consider myself pretty much set for making the most of the post-apocalypse.

 

[Therarchos]

Start walking. See how far I could get. Probably do a shitload of crazy stuff because there would be no one to mourn me if I died. Climb every tall place I could find. Try to copy every crazy thing I remember from movies and television. And of course... learn to play as many instruments I could get my hands on.