The chapter opens with a discussion of flight training, which is described as "spec tacular" . The narrator, who is named "Mutta," asks how flight training is going, and the narrator replies that it's "pitch black" , and that his plane is flying "blind folded" as part of "crazy training." The narrator says that he's worried about what's going to happen when the pilot loses his or her sense of direction, and says that when pilots lose their senses, they can end up "cumber to vertigo" and end up in crashes. He also says that even if the pilot can see outside, the pilot will do what he or she's told him to do. He says that the pilot is the "best" of his "boy step" and that even though the pilot's not going to be able to see out the window, he'll do exactly what they've told him. Mutta then says that she got a letter from a woman named "Sharon" who wanted to know if she could walk. She sent her a hand-written letter, asking if he'd like to use a wheelchair or a cane to get around. She says that if he can't walk, he doesn't need the wheelchair or the cane. She's fat like him and short like him, and both of their legs are bad. She adds that she'll lose her walking ability, but that she won't even lose her fatness because she'd have to use the wheelchair and cane for her. She thinks that young sharon is mocking her because they look alike in later life, and she says that both her father and his father had bad legs, too. She notes that the characters in the letter are ugly, as if they were written over gravel, but Serika San says that in some cases, people train themselves to eventually write better than they are now. She asks how many hours it took to write the letter, and Muttala says that