Yesterday I was sitting in my parents'
living room with my brother and sister when our five-year-old brother came
downstairs.
“I am a robot,” he told us. “I know
everything.”
“What’s two plus two?” I asked the robot.
“Easy,” he replied. You would think that if
you knew everything there would be no easy or hard questions, just questions,
but whatever. “It’s four.”
“What’s five plus five?” my other brother
asks.
“Ten,” the robot replies confidently.
“What’s the square root of 16?” my sister
asks. The robot narrows his eyes. We stare at it, waiting for this all-knowing
machine to tell us the answer.
It sighs. “Well, I guess I have to do this now.”
The robot pulls out his toy lightsaber and
slaughters all three of us.
There is a story idea in there somewhere, I’m
sure of it.
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