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FULLYCHARGED
(Whispering.)
And the numbers!
BENET
There was another long queue at the gate, although this one didn’t take one hour.
This one took 59 minutes.
It would have been quicker, but the man at the front didn’t have the right territorial integrity pass. He wasn’t allowed to board the airliner in spite of having no toothpaste and having a travel warrant in his rock steady right hand. After three hours in the airport he was told that he had to go home.
That’s how a holiday starts!
SCENE 4
(Inside an airliner.)
BENET
Inside the airliner a prison guard in a cheap uniform forcibly strapped SimpleSimon and NottaPenny into their chairs before the metal tube was allowed to leave the ground. After it was high enough the prison guard came back and demanded twenty four sovereigns … twenty four … in exchange for two cups of cold, weak tea.
And SimpleSimon and NottaPenny were not allowed to go to the toilet because the captain was turbulent!
When the captain stopped being turbulent there was a rush for the two toilets at the back. This metal tube had 180 passengers and only two toilets. And one of the toilets was broken. All the passengers got very angry, and the prison guards said they had
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