INT. HUGE WAREHOUSE - DAY

Inside a huge central warehouse with packaged foodstuffs, everything from flour and sugar to tins of SPAM and bottles of soda, on big crates piled on shelves, up to thirty feet high, several dozen forklifts are busily moving things around.

At the strike of noon, the forklifts stop, all within a few seconds. Some crash against a shelf, or a wall, a couple against each other.

FORKLIFT DRIVER 1

What the heck?

FORKLIFT DRIVER 2

Hey, what's going on?

FORKLIFT DRIVER 1

My forklift won't start.

FORKLIFT DRIVER 2

Mine either. They can't all be broken, can they?

FORKLIFT DRIVER 1
(Shouting to people some distance away)

Hey, do you know what's wrong? Why did all forklifts stop at the same time?

FORKLIFT DRIVER 3
(Shouting back)

We don't know either. I'll go call the supervisor.

FORKLIFT DRIVER 3 runs a short distance to a wall phone, and dials a number. The call is soon answered.

FORKLIFT DRIVER 3

Hey Mike, our forklifts stopped and won't start again.

SUPERVISOR

What do you mean?

FORKLIFT DRIVER 3
(Slowly)

Every forklift has stopped. They do not start again.

SUPERVISOR

Stopped? What do you mean they stopped? What did you do?

FORKLIFT DRIVER 3

We didn't do nothing, OK. They just stopped. Come look for yourself.