tales from an ordinary world

2001-02-01

"Planet earth is blue
and there's nothing I can do"
David Bowie.

As usual, it's all a matter of waiting. Despite the urgency of the situation, you can't do anything else. Get out for a while to go to an optometrist appointment, but it's useless, there's no way of relaxing, no way to switch off, no way to stop the imagined voices of the angry people who just won't understand that the circumstances really are beyond our control.

Please put your tray table up.

Please use the vertical hold knob to adjust your set.

Please do not move.

Please do not speak.

And please, please do not bother the man behind the curtain.