bright.

So there...so there was this woman.


...and she was on an airplane- she was flying to meet her fiancé seaming high above the largest ocean on planet earth. She was seated next to this man who she... she had tried to start conversations, but the only thing she had really heard him say was to order his Bloody Mary. 


She was sitting there and she was reading this really arduous magazine article about a third world country that she couldn’t even pronounce the name of. And she was feeling very bored and despondent. 


And then suddenly there was this...this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out, and they started just falling thirty-thousand feet, and the pilots on the microphone and he’s saying “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, oh my god... I'm sorry” and apologizing. 


And she looks at the man and says “Where are we going?” and he looks at her and he says “We’re going to a party. It’s a birthday party. It’s your birthday party. Happy birthday darling. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.” And then he starts humming this little tune, it kind of goes like this: 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4...