Critical Safety

In the seat behind him, Rolph and Charlie are showing their Mad magazine to Mildred, one of the bird-watching women. She or her companion, Fiona, can often be discovered near Lou, who flirts with them tirelessly and needles them to take him bird-watching. His indulgence of those ladies of their seventies intrigues Mindy; she shall be in a position to find no structural purpose for it. She hates Mindy, but Mindy doesn’t take it personally—it’s structural hatred, a time period she coined herself and is finding highly helpful on this journey. The Samburu warriors have arrived—four of them, two holding drums, and a baby in the shadows minding a yellow long-horned cow.