On a cross-country flight the stewardess explains that passengers have the right to jump at any time from exits located at either side of the cabin, but that the captain expects us to provide our own parachutes and landing equipment. A bespectacled man asks a rather practical question about the civil war which requires a long answer; when he goes to the lavatory the pilot prints in chalk on an old blackboard, slowly, "Impudent Cunard."