Reality - Ch. 12

I bet it must feel wonderful walking in the open air instead of being locked up in that cell.  Yeah I know it was actually only overnight for you.  (For me it was a week.)

But... You must be starving.  Come on - we'll go and get some food.  Now it's 1973.  Some of the things I picked up for hardly anything when it was 1955 are now highly collectable in 1973.  So I've got some money.  The strange thing is whilst I'm holding US dollars, because it's 1973 the American dollar has been devalued 10%.  So it might be a good idea to try and find some American kind of place to eat.  (Instead of trying to exchange this money for some other country's currency.)

1973 is quite a strange time.  President Nixon just been sworn in as president after his second election victory.  Of course you and I both know he's not president for another four years.  In fact the Watergate scandal starts the middle of this year.

Hang on a minute.  Can you hear something?

Yeah it's some sort of sounds coming from above.

Over there.  Look at it.  It's some sort of-  it looks like a-  you know, like a Concorde plane or something.

Hang on a minute.  Someone next you is trying to attract our attention. 

I'll talk with him.
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Oh, he's now decided to walk off.

Did you hear what he said then?

You weren't listening were you?

Yeah I know It's a bit distracting seeing a plane falling pretty well direct at us.

Alright we'll run now quickly.

You noticed how that guy wasn't terribly bothered about the plane?

Look over your shoulder.  The plane's really close.  We've got no chance of running away in time. 

But he said it seems everything will be fine.  I don't know what he meant by that.

Apparently it crashes every week at this time.