Air Canada

[Emery]

Part of Air Canada's recent settlement with the Unions was hiring handicapped people. So, the other day passengers on a small commuter plane were waiting for the flight to leave. The entrance opened, and TC and Oakhill walked up the aisle, dressed in pilots' uniforms and both wearing dark glasses. TC was using a seeing-eye dog, and Oakhill was tapping her way up the aisle with a white cane.

Nervous laughter spreads through the cabin; but the pilots enter the cockpit, the door closes, and the engines start up. The passengers begin glancing nervously around, searching for some sign that this is just a little practical joke. None is forthcoming. The plane moves faster and faster
down the runway, and people at the windows realize that they're headed straight for the water at the edge of the airport territory.

As it begins to look as though the plane will never take off, that it will plough into the water, panicked screams fill the cabin. At that moment, the plane lifts smoothly into the air. The passengers relax and laugh a little sheepishly, and soon they have all retreated into their magazines, secure in the knowledge that the plane is in good hands.

Up front in the cockpit, the TC turns to oakhill and says, "You know, Oakhill, one of these days, they're going to scream too late, and we're all gonna die. "