Screens gone black

There is something very evil about the colour black. Black means nothing, empty, vacant, void. Its hopeless, cold and isolating.

We just heard an announcement as we were about to board the plane that maintenance has been called on baord because all the computer screens in the cockpit have gone black.

Black

It clearly signals something wrong. They didn't go blue. Or mint green. They went black.

Now if I can't get out of Edmonton and to London, my work with my client will go black. It will be nothing, empty, vacant, void. Its hopeless, cold and isolating.

So here I sit against the wall in the hallway, desperately hoping that somehow, the screens will become fuschia or penelope yellow or squirrely grey.....anything but black!