-60 Degrees

Inside the aircraft the airhostess took her position and went "in case of a water emergency- you will find a life-jacket like this under your seat, wear it above you head and...." so on. At this point i should confess about this thought that crosses my mind every time i board an aircraft" This aircraft is gonna crash!" Yes, I don’t know why but this shit scares me every time I take my seat and click close those useless seatbelts around my waist. Now she had finished the demonstration and tucked those yellow, worn out, lifeless life-jackets into her briefcase. I was looking into the eyes of my co-passenger who was by now convinced that there is no threat whatsoever and the life jacket will save her life in case of an emergency. "What do we do in case of a 'non-water' emergency? I thought to myself, I always wanted to ask the hostess the same , but I dint want to scandalise the other passengers, so I stop with thinking and eventually I found the answer while watching 'AIR CRASH INVESTGATION' on National Geographic, the answer was simple, in case of a non-water emergency, throw the life jacket out of the window and see who hits the ground first, you? or the life jacket?' Beep, Beep!! "Good evening everybody this is Captain. Sanjeev Singh, with your co pilot Rajiv Sang...." the announcement woke me up from my short nap, i didn’t even know when i dozed off or what put me off to sleep , probably that damned instrumental version of the song "sailing". I've been listening to this particular music and only this song on every flight of mine. Is it like the airlines don’t have money to buy new music, or the tape got stuck in the flights music system some decades back and the Germans forgot to train our flight engineers on how to change tapes? Anyways I am happy it wasn’t one of Aerosmith's records that got stuck like 'leaving on a jet plane, don’t know if I’ll be back again". "We are flying at an altitude of some 30000 feet above msl and the outside temperature is -60 degrees Celsius" the captain continued... - 60 degrees!! i exclaimed inside my head
… to be continued