Suddenly, Laurie feared for the life of her own 17 year-old son John, and tried to call Yosemite to talk to him, but her phone was dead.They are within a week of meeting the deadline of their six month trial period.Realizing heir young flier""s foolhardy action and expressing his own grim fatalism about aviation, Geoff reminds his partner of their commitment o running a business - and the very nature of their life-and-death enterprise.The rowdy, sweaty, tired group pops foam-spraying beer cans and carouses with drinking songs until quieted by the soft piano-playing of John - the proprietor of the bar.It was also a celebration of life in the 1980s (following the Reagan Presidency), after so much hardship in the decades that had come before (marred by the Watergate affair, the many assassinations in the 1960s, and the drawn-out Vietnam War).