Asteroth6

Asteroth6 OP t1_je2sh9k wrote

Reply to comment by xeroextremities in This bottled water’s primary marketing is that it goes straight from the sewage treatment plant to your mouth. by Asteroth6

I know. I didn’t actually make this to make fun of the premise or the water at all.

It was, well, “mildly interesting” (and a little funny) to me because water would ordinarily try incredibly hard to separate themselves from that image in marketing, not make it the selling point.

The marketing decision, not the water, is the (mildly) interesting part.

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Asteroth6 t1_iy7e5k7 wrote

Reply to comment by Frosty-Ad333 in There’s Something Wrong With Exit 181 by FormerTrenchCoat

Roads have always had a habit of acting as gateways to other places. In older times, people would use forks in the road to act as portals in order to summon or contact other places. See all of the many rituals to meet the devil at a fork in the road.

Legends of roads taking you unwillingly to other places almost always have two factors in common: Happening at night (overwhelmingly midnight, just as happened to this woman. Clarke Ashton Smith’s “The Ninth Skeleton is a rare exception) and happening when alone.

Some believe that when left alone long enough, the roads can “fall” into other places. Some think that devils are playing tricks on us, but can’t risk calling too much attention. Others, of course, believe that at certain times, the barriers between our world and other places becomes a little thinner.

In any case, whatever was beyond Exit 181 wasn’t something you can find here on a map. Although, one could provide a clue. These things tend to make choices deliberately, and based on symbols or ideas. And for the same reason, I would listen to what others are saying and not take Exit 181, ever. Once you have come so close to these things, they can sometimes follow you forever.

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