The Scripture of Plumbing
Somewhere right now, a regulation is keeping a plane in the sky.
Somewhere right now, a procedure is keeping an audit fair.
Somewhere right now, a clause is making sure the cargo knows whose it is when the ship sinks.
None of it is glamorous. None of it is going viral. None of it is anybody's hobby.
But the plane stays up. The audit stays fair. The cargo has an owner.
But the plane stays up.
The audit stays fair.
The cargo has an owner.
These are holy texts written by tired people in boring fonts. They hold the world up.
Next time a plane lands safely —
next time a refund arrives —
next time the lights come on —
thank a page of plain English,
written in 1938,
that nobody read today
except the civil servant
who ran the system
you didn't notice.