Heh...I found an old story concept in one of my random notebooks the other day...it went something like this: (as always, very vague and fuzzy)

It's the end of the world (isn't it always?) and the forces of good are going all out in the last battle against the forces of Chaos, Evil, and Anarchy. It's World War III, and the good guys are outnumbered. But, they have The General, the most brilliant tactician of the age, on their side. With him leading the forces, they're sure to win. And they would have, too. He had the plan worked out perfectly, but for a cluster of enemy bombers that made it through and managed to harass the area he was in...so, he quickly scrawled instructions for the other half of his troops, off on the other side of a small mountain range, and sent them off by carrier pigeon. (All other lines of communication were down.) He sent off a note with quick instructions, but the men in charge of the other forces would know what to do. There was just one problem.

The General has terrible handwriting. So, rather than waiting for The General to move his own troops into position, the other forces rush in, and are slaughtered. The General and his troops arrived just in time to witness the carnage and be obliterated themselves. Of course, none of the enemy survived, either, but they still won. Good only triumphs when there's someone left over after the battle. And this time, there wasn't.

The General had been knocked out by a piece of flying debris; when he came to, he was the last living person on the battlefield. Over a million men, cut down in cold blood, all because of his bad penmanship.

Ouch.

All of those dead people caused a serious backlog in the processing departments of the afterworld, so death finally said "Screw this, the lot of you can go back to the surface. Try and fix things if you want." Then Karma took over and organized all those lost souls, and gave them a leader in the form of the Spokesperson. Spokesperson then appeared to The General on the ravaged battlefield, and demanded to know what the hell he thought he was doing, just standing there. Karma had a good laugh, and sat back to watch the show.

Spokesperson (and the million odd lost souls she represented) and the General then set off doing a world tour sort of thing, helping people and preventing the spread of anarchy as best they could. Armed with a limited amount of explosives (because we all know how difficult it is to find TNT in a post-apocalyptic world...) and gradually improving handwriting, The General actually manages to cause the downfall of the anarchists, and he somehow restores order to the world. Spokesperson and everyone else is able to move on (as Death finally gets a better secretary) and The General finally forgives himself for losing the war.

No, I wasn't on crack, yes, those tense changes are kinda wonky, no, I'm never going to write this. It just amused the hell out of me- next time you have to read bad handwriting, just be thankful that people tend to type up the important stuff nowadays...

"I wanted you to move in from the west, not charge in and do your best!"
It's like one of those stupid Sprint commercials...*giggle*