12 August 2004 - terrorism alert

Scared: Don’t go to the bank today! There’s another terrorism alert!
Sleepy: You woke me up for that? Grandstanding paranoids. They’re always wrong.
Scared: But what if this time they’re wrong about being wrong? What if the terrorists forgot to tune in and didn’t change their plans?
Sleepy: Eh. We survived World War I, and Black Plague, and the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. We’ll muddle through.
Scared: Mass extinction? I’ve never survived a mass extinction.
Sleepy: Your mamma did. G’night.
Scared: What if paranoia causes mass extinctions?