Airliner Dream

Boeing 747 traveling to Delta’s world headquarters to become an exhibit. KENT D. JOHNSON

I'm sitting in a window seat in an airliner taxiing prior to takeoff. It might be a 747. We have left the airport and are on a city street.  Now we have to avoid some automobile traffic so we hop the curb at an oblique angle into a parking lot. There is a concrete curb with an adjacent strip of grass, then a fairly wide parking lot and then a big brick wall of a warehouse-like building. I'm expecting to feel a bump when the nose wheel crosses the curb but I feel nothing. Now the plane turns to avoid the building and when the turn is almost completed I see the tip of the wing scratch the wall of the building and I say "contact". The plane stops and the pilot announces that CHARLES PERGIEL noticed the contact followed by some mumbly jumbly. Great, now everyone knows who to blame for the endless delay we are going to suffer because I bothered to notice this inconsequential contact. Of course we don't know if it's really inconsequential or not, the wing tip is a hundred feet from the fuselage, you can't really tell if there is any damage or not.

Now I have to get up to take a whiz but when I get back to bed the dream continues. Never had that happen before.

Now I'm inside the building we just hit. Everyone is all a-twitter about the airplane in the parking lot. A couple of people are looking at airplane parts, in particular wing panels that have strange markings reminiscent of cave paintings on the inner surface and the question on their minds is how to do you see these markings without taking the panel off. I ask if they have found anything about the wing tip and it all fades away.