XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/16/2014 11:40 PM, Bernard Peek wrote:   
   > On 17/01/14 01:28, Robert Bannister wrote:   
   >>   
   >> For a while last year, I was without a car so I signed up for online   
   >> shopping, but fortunately got the car back before it became necessary.   
   >> If I were still working, things would be different, but now I'm retired   
   >> doing a little bit of shopping every day gets me out of the house and is   
   >> partly a social occasion.   
   >   
   > Yes. It's worth remembering that we may be able to automate the primary   
   > function of shopping there are secondary functions too. Someone at home   
   > most of the time may need to get out or go stir-crazy.   
   >   
   But *hee hee* stir-crazy is *hee hee* so much fun *hee hee*.   
      
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   hyper-active teenagers with ADD whose Ritalin got replaced with   
   methamphetamine, displaying a level of discipline that a Somali pirate   
   wouldn't tolerate.   
      
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