A Trip To Paris
Ever since Jocelyn’s golden crown could challenge the bedroom doorknob, she wished to one day visit France, meet a French man, and fall deeply in love resulting in many babies. She watched French films, read every book about the country and its culture, ate brie and chocolate croissants and taught herself the French language with an instructive cassette tape on popular French phrases.
Seemingly overnight - the way life tends to happen - the distance from Jocelyn’s feet to forehead ballooned dramatically, and suddenly she was a woman. This prompted her to pack her suitcase in a fit of ecstasy and hail the first yellowcab to the nearest airport.
She made a mad dash for the ticket counter and reserved one ticket for Paris to depart that very hour. What she failed to notice in her tizzy of childhood-fantasy-coming-to-fruition, was that in fact she had booked a flight for the city of Paris, Texas… as opposed to the popular French metropolis by the same name.
Jocelyn never realized this critical error, even after boarding the Lonestar-bound aircraft, due to the fact that her instructive cassette tape on popular French phrases drowned out the voice of the flight attendant who announced the final destination prior to take off.
The plane crashed not but thirty minutes into the flight when a bird flew into the left engine causing complete power failure, sealing the fate of all 142 people aboard.
-CL
