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"Yeah, there are listening devices in those

  • "Yeah, there are listening devices in those little white beeper things." Said Ted. "You mean they're listening in on us?" The Barrista's felt naked
  • and in danger. It was as if they were in a zone -- of danger. The Man listened in on their shrieks of existential horror. Ted tried to hide behind the Lowfat Red Raspberry Muffins,
  • but their healthy temptations were too much to overcome, & soon he'd eaten his cover. Ted escaped the mini-mart & drove his Yugo down the highway, but it only led him into the zone
  • Of nothingness, a landscape filled with anaesthesial remnants of what used to be known as apps. The sordid highway to hell featured motels advertising cheap rates for rooms, but
  • in sections of the city now covered by nuclear waste. As I made my way down the abandoned Interstate 495 South, I was careful to avoid stepping in any piles of
  • shinola because I'd learned my lesson with telling it apart from other more unsavory piles. The upside of the nuclear holocaust was that no more neighbors were hogging bandwidth so
  • my high speed internet was now cooking with gas. Oh, did I mention the poison gas attacks? They might be the reason I get nada on the web but "page unavailable" notices. Can't win.
  • "Okay Sir. Thanks for heads up information. Did you try to reboot our modem?" "No can do. I'm just toasting some canapes on the fritzbox." "Sir, our modem is not intended for
  • ..." And then the modem booted to life with a few beeps and a gurgle of static. "COSMIC ALERT: Something went wrong on Earth and we must expand to save the civilized worlds." I rea
  • lly didn't want to be the savior of the universe, but I supposed somebody had to do it. *SIGH* I pushed the expansion button & the worlds returned to normal. All in a days work!
Started
2011-10-04 17:23:59
Finished
2016-06-16 22:01:34

1 Comments

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    BlastedHeath Jun 16 2016 @ 22:31

    Thank you, PurpleProf. Sometimes it's these little unnoticed, unheroic actions that keep the world turning, and this is what we must teach our cats.

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