Carried to Work by Something Enormous

There’s a Japanese gum commercial where a salaryman in a suit pops a piece of Lotte gum and is promptly scooped up by a cat the size of a city block and carried, gently, across the Tokyo skyline to his office. The cat sets him down. He goes to work. The whole thing is presented as perfectly normal, which is exactly the right tone for a fantasy this pure.

Japanese confectionery advertising operates in its own dimension. The product triggers a transformation, the world reshapes itself around it, and nobody explains the rules. You don’t need the rules. A giant cat carries you to work. That’s enough.

It’s the commute I want. Whatever the actual alternative involves, it isn’t this.