Passengers on a small commuter plane are waiting for the flight to leave. They're getting a little impatient, but the airport staff has assured them that the pilots will arrive soon, and the flight will then take off immediately. The entrance opens, and two men in pilot uniforms walk up to the cockpit; both are wearing dark glasses, one is using a seeing-eye dog, and the other is tapping his way up the aisle with a cane.

      Nervous laughter spreads through the cabin; but the men enter the cockpit, the door closes, and the engines start up. The passengers begin glancing nervously around, searching for some sign that this is just a little practical joke. None is forthcoming.

     The plane moves down the runway, faster and faster, and people by the windows realize that they're headed straight for the water at the end of the runway. As it begins to look as though the plane will never lift off, that it will plough into the water, panicked screams fill the cabin.

    Just at that moment, the plane lifts smoothly into the air. The passengers relax and laugh a little sheepishly, realising that the plane is in good hands. Up in the cockpit, the co-pilot turns to the pilot and says, "You know, Bob, one of these days, they're going to scream too late, and we're all gonna die."