XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: tmcd@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Robert Bannister   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   I read another one about a man like that.   
      
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   Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com   
      
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