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The Gremlins Complete Text

As the days went by it became more and more obvious that the gremlins had come to stay.

When Gus made a forced landing in a plowed field at night after losing his way, the C.O. hauled him into his office and began to let him have it. Gus stood stiffly at attention.

"Well, you see, sir," he said, "I was milling around in the dark over the airdrome when a gremlin popped his head through the window and said, 'Good evening. Do you know where you are?'

"I said of course I knew where I was and go away at once. Then he edged in a little further, sat on the side of the cockpit, and said, 'I suppose you're absolutely sure you know where you are?'

"I said, 'Will you go away, because I'm trying to concentrate.' Whereupon he climbed right into the cockpit and sat on the compass just in front of me, dangling his legs in the air. He was a night-flying gremlin and had a luminous face, which was a trifle disconcerting at the time.

"Then he said, 'Confidentially, I really don't think you've got the slightest idea where you are,' and I suddenly looked around and realized that I hadn't."

Then there was Jamface's story of how he got a leak in his gas tank on the way back from Berlin.