I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.