“You’ve got to be joking!” the citizen looked stressed.

“Rules are rules”

The angel looked unbothered.

“You can’t just change the rules and not give us time”

The angel takes the citizen’s palm.

“We had to make minor adjustments to the judging system, it made no sense to only consider acts of goodness and not intentions as well. What benefit is it to act kind because you have to BE kind. That just sends the wrong message”

the angel puts on a cocky smile -at least it looked that way to the citizen- and continued.

“For example, you’re not a good person, you just do the bare minimum to appear good. You didn’t volunteer your time to the elderly because you were good. You did it because you didn’t want to stay at home with your family. You hated every moment in your home and that just won’t do.”

The citizen sighs.

“But, I was still volunteering, I made a difference to those I helped”

“Perhaps! but now your family resents you. 40 years of absence does that to a person.”

The citizen panics.

“I can make it right with them. Just give me more time”

The angel ponders for a while.

The citizen looks hopeful.

“You will all have more time, resentment gets you a downgrade as well. You and your family will be moving to Earth 5!”

The angels voice booms through the Earth, the citizen bleeps out of sight.

The angel looks straight ahead at the anxious crowd “Who’s next?”

It’s about to be a stressful day for citizens of Earth 1.