"Why do you think magic carpets were banned?" Richard asked, holding onto the edge of the carpet and watching the mountains pass by below. "Look, this rug can go higher than your plane!"
James chose to ignore the comment. "Weren't you listening to that woman?"
"I was too busy worrying about how smug Clarkson would be about it. What did she say?"
"Too conspicuous. People could mistake a broom for a bird or something if it's high up enough, but a big rectangular thing in the sky is weird."
"Is that it?"
"Well, and they're dangerous. If you're on a broom you can grip with your legs, but you could easily just fall off a carpet."
Richard blinked nervously and tightened his grip on the edge.
"The advantage of magic carpets," James continued, switching his attention to the camera, "is that, while brooms are entirely controlled by the rider, carpets can actually have some intelligence sort of built in. So you can tell it that you're going to Tokyo and it'll keep you on course - sort of like SAT-NAV, except it actually works. You've still got to keep your eyes open in case it decides that the quickest route is through a mountain or something, but basically what this means is that we've got a much easier time of it than Jeremy has."
James didn't realise exactly how true those words were, as he had no idea that, at the precise moment he was saying them, the tail of Jeremy's broom was on fire.
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"Why do you think magic carpets were banned?" Richard asked, holding onto the edge of the carpet and watching the mountains pass by below. "Look, this rug can go higher than your plane!"
James chose to ignore the comment. "Weren't you listening to that woman?"
"I was too busy worrying about how smug Clarkson would be about it. What did she say?"
"Too conspicuous. People could mistake a broom for a bird or something if it's high up enough, but a big rectangular thing in the sky is weird."
"Is that it?"
"Well, and they're dangerous. If you're on a broom you can grip with your legs, but you could easily just fall off a carpet."
Richard blinked nervously and tightened his grip on the edge.
"The advantage of magic carpets," James continued, switching his attention to the camera, "is that, while brooms are entirely controlled by the rider, carpets can actually have some intelligence sort of built in. So you can tell it that you're going to Tokyo and it'll keep you on course - sort of like SAT-NAV, except it actually works. You've still got to keep your eyes open in case it decides that the quickest route is through a mountain or something, but basically what this means is that we've got a much easier time of it than Jeremy has."
James didn't realise exactly how true those words were, as he had no idea that, at the precise moment he was saying them, the tail of Jeremy's broom was on fire.