This isn't so much relevant to Plankton, but my best friend and I don't really know many of the same people, and almost never see each other's family, so there's a decent chance that if one of use died the other wouldn't know about it for a while. We only ever get into contact on the phone, and since I've been out of work for so long, saving the minutes on my Tracphone, we generally don't talk for long or call each other unless we're trying to hang out, which is far less often than I'd like due to money issues and at least a thirty minute travel time to my house (he has a car but I don't).
It's a thought that occasionally occurs to and upsets me, since the only way we'd know would be if one of our mothers had the presence of mind in their grief to remember that their son had a friend who'd need to know, or if they kept our phones and actually answered them when one of us called. Since my Tracphone doesn't require a monthly payment, this wouldn't be all that unlikely, but his is on a monthly payment, so if I didn't call him within that time period and couldn't find any of his family in a phone book, it would take some legwork just to get into contact.
At the very least, we may very well end up missing the other's funeral. That would be hard to take.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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