One day at a busy airport, the passengers on a commercial airliner are seated, waiting for the cockpit crew to show up so they can get
under way. The pilot and copilot finally appear in the rear of the plane, and begin walking up to the cockpit through the center aisle. Both appear to be blind. The pilot is using a white
cane, bumping into passengers right and left as
he stumbles down the aisle, and the copilot is
using a guide dog. Both have their eyes covered
with huge sunglasses.
At first the passengers do not react; thinking
that it must be some sort
of practical joke. Aftera few minutes the engines start revving and the airplane starts moving down the runway. The passengers look at each other with some uneasiness.
They start whispering among themselves and
look desperately to the stewardesses for reassurance. Then the airplane starts accelerating rapidly and people begin panicking. Some passengers are praying, and as the plane gets closer and closer to the end of the runway, the voices are becoming
more and more hysterical. When the airplane has less than 200 feet of runway
left, there is a
sudden change in the pitch of the shouts as everyone
screams at once. At the very last moment the airplane
lifts off and is airborne. Up in the cockpit, the copilot breathes a sigh of relief and tells the pilot: "You know, one of these days the passengers aren't going to scream, and we're
gonna get killed!"