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July 28, 2014
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| He was an engineer. His job was to maintain robots. In this era, robots are made very sophisticated. The robots required to be fixed one by one by special contract engineers. He was one of them. One day, he went out on a date with his girlfriend, but returned home very depressed because she broke up with him. He was drunk, but he wanted more to drink so he went into the kitchen for some whisky. To get to the kitchen, he went through his workroom where he maintained the robots. He noticed that there was a new robot, which was sent in today for regular maintenance. He untied the packaging in which the robot was held in. It was a human-shaped robot.
After booting, the robot scanned her surroundings, and faced towards him and said. "Hello, Mister. This is WEX7L5S. Can I help you?" He hated the naming of the robots but said, "WEX7L5S, I'm your engineer." He added his engineer identification number registered by the government. As soon as the robot heard his number she changed from her formal appearance into a friendly one. (They were programmed for smooth inspection.) She said, "Oh, that's nice. How are you?" He knew that she had already gathered his information from his appearance, his voice tone, even the smell of alcohol on his breath; she must have decided something about his character. The robot asked, "May I ask a personal question?" He said, "Sure. Go ahead." "You look depressed. Something happen?" He hesitated to answer. As a robot engineer, he talked with many robots but never revealed his personal issues. He knew that a robot is a robot. But today he was drunk, and was very broken-hearted. He decided to confess and talked about today's incident. The robot said in a worried voice, "Oh, I'm sorry. But, what happened? Why did she say that so suddenly? Did you do a bad thing to her?" He replied in a low voice, "I have no idea. I've never done anything bad to her. Rather, I am a kind and honest person, you know? A little bit embarrassing to say that about myself, though." The robot said, "I bet you are a good person. So, what do you think is wrong between you and your girlfriend?" He thought for a second and said, "Maybe I'm too normal. My talking was not so funny. I'm not so talkative. She might have felt that I was boring." The robot thought a while (at least it looked like it, even from the standpoint of an engineer) and said, "Every man doesn't need to be sociable. Some women hate talkative men." What she said was heart-warming. He started to feel amazed that the robot spoke these thoughtful words. The robot added, "By any chance, did you pretend that you were a good guy or a strong guy in front of her? She might have felt that it was not like you." It was exactly what he was thinking right now. Recently, he was a little bit tired in front of her because he felt that he played an attractive guy-type. He nodded. "You are already a good guy. You don't need to pretend. Your girlfriend likes you as you are. Why don't you call her and apologize to her?" The robot winked. He wondered why the robot knew so much about his girlfriend because he didn't say much about this to the robot. Maybe she calculated it from putting bits of information together from tonight's conversation. "What a world!" he thought, but said nothing. He said his appreciation to the robot, and turn it off. After that, he called his girlfriend and apologized to her. They made up. Now he was drinking whisky remembering the conversation between the robot, looking at the robot, who was now standing still. |
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*sophisticated :A sophisticated machine or system is very advanced and work in a clever way (C)
*surroundings :everything that is near or around you (O)