The shaking of the aircraft begins to get worse and worse. They look nervously at the pilot as he turns back towards them and grabs a parachute.
"There's four parachutes aboard this plane, and five occupants. I'm outta here!" he says as he pushes on the escape hatch and departs without saying another word.
Bill Gates looks at the others. "I'm in charge of the world's largest computer company. The planet needs me!", he quickly tells them as he grabs a chute and follows the pilot out the hatch.
George W. Bush looks on, watching Bill Gates' parachute pop open and begin its safe, graceful drop to the earth far below. He then looks at the Pope and the schoolboy, their eyes fixed on him.
"... Well I'm in charge of the world's richest and most powerful nation!", he says as he slips on a pack and dives out without a backwards glance.
"That leaves only one more chute", the Pope says to the schoolboy, softly. "I am in charge of one of the world's major religions. Millions look up to me", he says.
"But I am an old man. You are a young boy with your entire life ahead of you. I want you to have the last parachute", he says, as he pats the boy's shoulder and smiles compassionately.
"Uh, not so fast, holy man", the schoolboy laughs, "George Bush just jumped out of the plane with my rucksack!"
