What not to be in an airlock
“What? Hey! Open the airlock! Hello?”
“Hey, you’re the rocket scientist. You find a way out.”
“You’re insane!”
“Oh, and a psychiatrist too now? You’re a regular Einstein, you know that?”
“What’s wrong with you?”
“Nothing. Listen, I need to go fill out some forms, so you just hang tight there.”
“Is this because of last night?”
“What?”
“When I beat you at Boggle?”
”... No.”
“Sometimes you just see the big words. You know how it is.”
”’Astronaut’ though?”
“Look, it was a lucky break. We can play again tonight. I bet you do better this time. Come on, just let me out.”
“Well… OK. I guess.”
The following day…
“I still don’t know why you need me in the plasma torpedo launch tube.”
“It’s like I told you. Something spilled, and we need you to clean it up.”