If, after a record snowfall followed by three days of unseasonable warmth and a heavy rainstorm, you must wear boots so fancy that they cannot get some mud on them, please at least warn people behind you before you stop short with an exasperated sigh and try to clean your oh-so-important footwear in a snowbank.
Do you see how the robot turns slightly and tilts her umbrella aside as she passes you in the narrow lane that has been shoveled out between snowdrifts? If you do that too, you will not bump the robot. You will not splash the robot. You will not irk the robot.
Seven words: �Drivers must yield to pedestrians in crosswalk.�
When you are coming out of a store onto the sidewalk, it is a good idea to look where you are going. It is a bad idea to walk out into foot traffic and stand still, talking to your compatriot about �Oh, my God! It�s still raining!� Remember the turkeys!
Sir: if you would like to look at the beer, just say so. There is nothing to be gained by your pointed harrumphing but a world of pain, you small, passive-aggressive man.
Do not look askance at the robot�s drippy self, Lady with Fur Coat. The robot does not know what alternate reality you zipped in from, but here, it is raining like a mother. Do not make the robot pour a bucketful over your head.
Finish shopping before you get in line. BEFORE!!!!!
Drivers: the robot assures you that she would not walk in the street if she could avoid it. Thanks to some bad neighbors, however, it is necessary. Beeping at the robot does not get the sidewalks cleared, but it sure does shorten your life span.
Posted by hilatron at February 22, 2003 09:19 PMHave you considered using that Lobotimizer attachment thingy on your arm? I'm mean, that's why you have it, right? Plus, it'd be cool to leave a pile of twitching morons in your wake.
Posted by: cw at February 23, 2003 09:08 AMI had considered that, but I don't want to blow my cover. Who knows if the ship could get here to pick me up before the cops got to me?
Posted by: Hilatron at February 23, 2003 02:37 PM