A sushi chain has incorporated the world's first ever flying restaurant trays, using RC drone quadcopters to deliver dishes right to your table.
(The legend has been disputed and is playfully riffed on in the 1994 movie "Wing Chun," featuring Michelle Yeoh and a high-flying tray of trembling tofu).
But one still expects a raised voice, a tear, perhaps even a dramatic hand gesture that would send the scones and strawberries she has so graciously put out on a tray flying clear across the room.
It is the first of several forays into teatime frivolity involving flying saucers and trays and the alarming arrival of a tall, alarming personage called Miss Salt.
I maintain to this day that what happened next was the most awesome thing I've ever seen in my life: one of the guys started flipping up tables all around him, sent canteen trays flying into the guards' faces, hopped up on a chair, scissor kicked two guys either side of him, pounced over another's head and vanished out the door.
Your hands should be pointing way ahead, as if you're holding out a tray, not flying out at the sides.
People were dragging each other in and out of the front door, the landlady's drinks tray went flying and there was an unrelated attack on an editor at Frieze magazine.
The trays flew off the grocery-store shelves.
Waiters and waitresses flew by with trays of wine, cheesecake and pasta.
By the time we got to Parliament Hill a mini winter Olympics was taking place, people flying down 'Kite Hill' on kitchen trays and lids of recycling bins.
She remembered my flying visit to the hospital, had, in fact, gone to get a tray of tea and biscuits, when, holy cripes, on returning to the room, she saw that I had vanished.
