The oddest ways of embroidery
Monday, November 24, 2008 23:30What I can tell you is that with so embroidery many channels to choose from, and nearly all of them interrupted every few minutes by commercials, you don’t actually watch anything. As a friend recently explained to me, you don’t watch television here to see what is on, you watch it to see what else is on. And the one thing to be said for American TV is that there is embroidery always something else on. You can trawl infinitely. By the time you have reached the fiftieth channel you have forgotten what was on the first, so you start the cycle again in the forlorn hope that you might find something absorbing this time through.
Yet in the oddest ways airlines continue to act as if it is still 1955. Take the safety demonstration. Why after all these years do the flight attendants still put a life vest over their heads and show you how to pull the little cord that inflates it? In the entire history of commercial aviation no life has been saved by the provision of a life vest. I am especially fascinated by embroidery the way they include a little plastic whistle on each vest. I always imagine myself plunging vertically toward the ocean at 1,200 miles an hour and thinking: “Well, thank gosh I’ve got embroidery this whistle.”