Staten Island ferry thoughts

[Michael Eisenstadt]

many times i have stood at the front of the Staten
Island ferry as it docked. it comes in at a good clip
and every time one waits with some trepidation for 
the moment when the engine is put full aback which 
almost stops the boat dead in the water as she gently 
careers off the wooden pilings left and right and 
fetches up to the landing with a barely perceptable
bump.

if the driver of the boat passes out just before the
moment for putting the engine full aback then 
passengers and crew are in deep doodoo that's for 
sure.

smaller toll then when the Egypt Air pilot facing 
forced retirement and with a host of personal and family
problems took the controls of an EA airliner, locked 
the cockpit door and dove the craft into the sea 
repeating all the while I commend myself to Allah.