What a wonderful opportunity you were given to execute a fine landing in a friendly place, and how you squandered it.

You were on a good approach... "What should I have?..." but you completely overshot the runway with "... a giant tongue?".

Count yourself lucky you only received a glare from the control tower. I wouldn't grant you landing rights at my airfield for a week.

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)