Wednesday, April 12, 2006

flight or fight: automated response

The following is a work of fiction, an imagined transcript of exactly half of a telephone call placed to an automated flight information system. Any resemblance of characters in this work to real persons living or sleeping in the next room is purely coincidental.

KELLY dials phone. Waits.

KELLY: One.
KELLY: I don’t know.
KELLY: Arrivals.
KELLY: Today.
KELLY: Minneapolis.
KELLY: New York.
KELLY: New York LaGuardia International.
KELLY: Next.
KELLY: Next.
KELLY: Next.
KELLY (exasperated): Details.
KELLY (urgently): No, back up!
KELLY (hanging up): Screw it.

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