XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 18/01/2014 5:16 am, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , 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.   
   >   
   > On the flip-side, there are people who for whatever reason can't or   
   > don't want to go out.   
   >   
      
   I read an SF story about a woman like that.   
      
   --   
   Robert Bannister - 1940-71 SE England   
                       1972-now W Australia   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)