I want to go everywhere

[cosmolinguist]

Sometimes I'm sad that, despite living in the future tee em, I still have no magical teleporter.

But it's some consolation to me that the necessity of nonmagical transport means I can get excited about things like this. Don't know if I'll manage it on this trip to Madrid (though that is of course why I've got this particular window open in Firefox now), but I definitely want this to happen some time, to go somewhere.

(Shame our anniversary seems to happen at the time of the year when we're brokest (though this year our passports will also be zooming away in the residency application, so 'tis a moot point anyway), or I'd make Andrew whisk me away to somewhere cool that we can get to on a train. Look at the train!)


In other interesting public transport news, in town this afternoon I saw a bus that said it was going to JOHN LENNON. In the time it take me to do the double-take I realized I knew well what they meant, but still it made me smile. Ah, if only it were so easy.

Comments

[patrick-vecchio.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize they'd named the airport after him -- and what a cool slogan for the airport too.

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

If teleporting existed, the airlines would buy it up so you'd have to trek miles out of town, be surrounded by expensive shops during the two hours between check-in and teleport, and the nazis would still exercise their shoe fetish by peering closely at them before you could teleport.

In short, it'd be just as shit as air travel, without the choice of "steak or chicken sir?"

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Oh and you'd only be able to buy chick-lit or books by Lee Child, Andy McNab or Wilbur Smith.

[cosmolinguist]

I suppose having excited myself over the virtues of the experience of the sleeper train, I can't really advocate a soullessly instantaneous method of transport like teleportation...

But at least you could have real steak or chicken after you get where you're going!

[rainmerlot.livejournal.com]

That would be so cool. Get on a bus that would take you to... John Lennon, or Hunter S. Thompson, or my grandma!

We totally need to figure that one out.

[cosmolinguist]

I know! That's exactly what I was thinking, and that's why I had to smile. We need to figure that out. It'd be even better than a magic transporter.

[rainmerlot.livejournal.com]

It made me smile too - just reading it! :-)

[ethernight.livejournal.com]

I want my flying cars.