I hate the phone sometimes.
Sep. 12th, 2001 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reynardoI have a phone next to the bed. It's convenient in case late night phone calls come in. And I've had a few - usually little brothers drunk at camp, or wrong numbers who don't even bother apologising. But I still answer them all, because at that hour of the night, it might be an emergency, yes?
Last night it was my beloved's brother - had I been watching the television, was Lederhosen OK, their mother in the UK was worried? I was able to reassure him and her that Lederhosen was on the other side of the country and had been there for a few days so wasn't on a plane. But of course I then got up and spent a couple of hours watching the footage and checking with a few people I know that they were safe.
I get very jittery when things like this happen. At bushfires years ago all I could do was go to a safe place and watch them on the horizon, or across the water. It's more of a "trying to get my head around it" reaction that anything else.
Having lived through and remembering the paranoia of the 60s, 70s and early 80s, I am hoping that this won't lead to the sorts of sabre-rattling and threats of escalation that characterised those eras. I've read a couple of books where a plane gets through by being a commercial plane hijacked or imitated and thus lulling suspicions, and each of those then led to war. Please don't let that happen.
Last night it was my beloved's brother - had I been watching the television, was Lederhosen OK, their mother in the UK was worried? I was able to reassure him and her that Lederhosen was on the other side of the country and had been there for a few days so wasn't on a plane. But of course I then got up and spent a couple of hours watching the footage and checking with a few people I know that they were safe.
I get very jittery when things like this happen. At bushfires years ago all I could do was go to a safe place and watch them on the horizon, or across the water. It's more of a "trying to get my head around it" reaction that anything else.
Having lived through and remembering the paranoia of the 60s, 70s and early 80s, I am hoping that this won't lead to the sorts of sabre-rattling and threats of escalation that characterised those eras. I've read a couple of books where a plane gets through by being a commercial plane hijacked or imitated and thus lulling suspicions, and each of those then led to war. Please don't let that happen.
