I arrived at the Laundromat five minutes before my clothes were done. The place was swarming with cops, so I tried to find something to occupy myself so I wouldn’t look like a hood lurking around while my clothes finished. I grabbed an old copy of Aviation Week and Space Technology out of the back seat, and attempted to read it although it was dark.
I soon spotted a hilarious letter to the editor. The guy suggested reducing airplane weight by getting rid of the duty-free trolleys, 44 pounds when empty but “laden with booty†that nobody bought. He then suggested giving passengers a 1-kg carbon offset for not buying the stuff and hauling it around in their ground transportation – or so I thought. I reread the letter when I got home, and found I had misinterpolated the funny story between the lines of what I could make out in the dark. It was a nice idea, anyway.
