Volcano, Day Two
(JON and SVEN are at a hotel bar)
JON
What if this volcano keeps erupting?
SVEN
Yah, I was thinking about that… maybe I should take a boat home.
JON
Wow… a boat…
SVEN
Yah… like in the old days… when they didn’t have airplanes and things of that nature…
JON
Wow… yah… like we’d be returning to the old days… where it took like a week to get to Europe…
SVEN
Yah… they’d enter by the water, and then take trains, or horses…
JON
Wow. Yah, trains… I don’t think we’re back to horses yet…
SVEN
Yah…. but it makes you think… how good are your trains here in the US?
JON
Not so good. None of our infrastructure is very good.
SVEN
Yah – but what if you really can’t take airplanes any more?
JON
That would be something.
SVEN
Yah…
JON
I wonder if our missiles would still work.
SVEN
Your missiles?
JON
Yeah… we have all these intercontinental ballistic missiles… I wonder how they’d still do if there was all this volcanic ash in the air.
SVEN
Really? That’s the first thing you think about? Missiles?
JON
Well… not the first thing…
SVEN
You Americans…
(The End)
