Automated Turbulence

An unexpected element of pan-Pacific flights was the amount of turbulence that we encountered; not violent fits of shaking, but a persistent mild jostle. The best part of it all was everything time we entered a fit of turbulence there was a bi-lingual automated message that went over the intercom. No longer was it the captain assuring his passengers that this fit of turbulence is temporary, but the same bi-lingual dulcitones of a recording. We live in the future indeed.