The author sort of sounds mad about the way that life turns out, mad that the blonde and the pilot make it out alive and mad that the explorers that worked hard to stay alive die. He sees that the people in the earthquakes in movies die and didn’t deserve it. The author is having a hard time realizing this and is trying to find a way around the unfairness in life.
Fault
In the airport bar, I tell my mother not to worry. No one ever tripped and fell into the San Andreas Fault. But as she dabs at her dry eyes, I remember those old movies where the earth does open. There’s always one blonde entomologist, four deceitful explorers, and a pilot who’s good-looking but not smart enough to take off his leather jacket in the jungle. Still, he and Dr. Cutie Bug are the only ones who survive the spectacular quake because they spent their time making plans to go back to the Mid-West and live near his parents while the others wanted to steal the gold and ivory then move to Los Angeles where they would rarely call their mothers and almost never fly home and when they did for only a few days at a time.
—Ron Koertge
Its the best of both worlds 