Monday, October 7, 2013

On that Indigo Eve

Darcy Hampden Lemarr should not have been on that plane.
As it happens, I shouldn’t have been on that plane either. But I was. And so was she. And it was the best mistake in the history of confusing airports.
To begin with it was a fairly normal day for me, sitting there on a plane, waiting, waiting and waiting as people are apt to do while flying. I swished some orange juice around in a glass, not caring for the taste of it, but enjoying having something to swish, and then she sat down next to me, scowling.
I, being polite, offered the pretty young lady my window seat. She turned ghastly pale and shuddered.
“Oh no, no thanks please. I think I’d rather be as far away from a suffocating death as possible.”

On that cheery note, the flight attendant instructed us to fasten our seatbelts and prepare for takeoff. 

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