第 21 篇：An Air Crash

I was a previous 打字员 in a post office. Because I couldn’t 忍受 typing any more postage bills or postcodes on a typewriter every day, I 辞职ed. With a greedy 动机 of making big money, I took up working as a business 代表 for the G.E Ecology Company, which produced goods by recycling useful materials from our dustbins. My new job left me good impressions in many aspects except that the working timetable was full of traveling by jets. Once, when speeding up, our jet was swallowed by a 雷暴, which destroyed our GPS receiver and made us lose sight of the directions. A constantly flashing light showed that our jet was in danger. A steward instantly asked us to put on masks and fasten the safety belts, and then pressed a button to switch on the escaping capsule. It slid sideways out of the opening at once and landed in a desert area safely. Lacking food and tablets, we were nervous and uncertain at first. But we all kept optimistic and made good adjustment to the situation. We swept up the surrounding mud to make our settlement and were back on our feet soon. Finally, guided by the smoke of our crashing jet, some local citizens came by carriages and saved us.