Bad Machinery by John Allison for March 25, 2024

So there’s this kid from Washington state that kept stealing small airplanes. He managed to take off with no problems but he wreaked them all landing. He did walk away from the landings though.

Is there no end to the duplicitous deception?

You just know that Ben would design a space plane with a user-friendly touchscreen interface.

B-donk donk!

Shauna, Lottie, and I were all fooled by the simulator. Well…, maybe just me.

Well played, Ben. Well played.

Hmmm… an initiation ceremony (or hazing… take your pick).

Wait just a minute!

Are they speechless????

They passed the test with flying colors, er, landing colors, er, simulated colors…

Wow, I was right. Just call me s broken clock.

Wow! I was way off. Just can’t trust my feelings…

Told ya they never left the ground.

What a wild prank. Lottie and Shauna may be traumatized for life. I kinda want to see them beat Ben.