RSS…being multiplied
Mar 28
As my wife and I were making our final preparations for our trip this afternoon, I received an automated phone call from the airline informing us of a delay. This delay (of course) caused a cascade of consequences: we are now flying into Madrid through Paris, as opposed to directly from Atlanta; We will be arriving in Madrid in the afternoon rather than the morning which means we will be missing a very important appointment with a lawyer. But this delay has also caused an existential situation worthy of some of the better episodes of Start Trek. Thanks to the wonders of technology and moderately helpful travel agents, we are now booked on two different flights at roughly the same time. Have we inadvertently just caused a rift in the temporal flow of space-time?
I imagine the plane that we should be on according to our original itinerary with empty our seats. Except that they are filled by the will and intent that we created upon our original booking. The temporal vortex created by the focused energies of will and siphoned through the jet turbines in turn cause the matter and anti-matter existing in the void where we should be to solidify with our shapes and thought patterns, exact replicas. And they, of course, arrive before we do, and do all the things that we should be doing, before we get a chance to do them.
A few hours later, we’ll arrive to the flat in Madrid and find exact copies of our luggage. In our panic and the dawning realization we will go unconscious from the shock. Our doppelgangers will return a short time later and find us sprawled on the floor. But since their reality is now more real than ours, since they live in the timeline that we should have lived in, our existence will fade and our unconscious bodies will disintegrate into the ether, and the copies will become the originals.
Or we’ll just sit in the airport for a couple of hours think of ways to kill time until our next flight.
Rated two stars for annoying delays, sci-fi disasters, and numb butts. Would have scored a one star if it weren’t for the fact that we will be in Paris, even if only in the airport.
