[ WP ] One day , everyone has numbers floating above their heads . However , these numbers are completely arbitrary and do n't represent anything . Describe the effects this would have on society .

I can remember the day when it happened, when the numbers appeared. I'd just got home from school and let myself in and was looking forward to watching my favourite shows on the TV, but I could n't. The TV was just news, rolling news, about the numbers. 
 The newsreader had a number above her head, a 22 if I remember correctly. The reporters had them too, as did the scientists, bishops, imams, psychics and UFO hunters they interviewed. I checked in the mirror, I had one too, 77. 
 My brother came in, his was 97, we looked at each other quizzically. `` Have you seen it out there?'' He asked. `` Its madness, everyone running around looking at the numbers!'' 
 `` Look at the news'', I replied, `` its everywhere, and no one knows why or what they mean.'' 
 
 Its been 20 years now, I'm nearly 30 but my number still remains the same, 77. 
 Its part of life, but no one has been able to work out what the numbers mean, or how they got there. Just that everyone has one and they do n't change. There are theories of course, Scientists say its random and they probably mean nothing, though research is ongoing. The Vatican declared the start of the end of days, and a hundred cults were spawned. Quack therapies started to be pedalled to change the number. UFO hunters think its aliens, religious people, angels. 
 Me, I'm not sure, its part of me now, I'll always be a 77. 
 

