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July 31, 2016
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| There were three major things that modern people wanted to invent but haven't been able to: a time machine, an invisible man, and teleportation. Teleportation is to move to another place in a second. They started to use their time zones like teleportation. She was a customer of this boutique. The boutique was located in a different country from her own country. She was in her 60s and lived alone in the countryside. She liked to live in nature, planting vegetables and flowers. She liked to bake bread and make preserved foods. She didn't like cities. She would rarely go to the cities. She used websites to buy many things, but recently she was annoyed that some websites became pushy in recommending goods that she was not interested in. Then one day, a salesman came to her house. He rented her this gadget saying it would create a new type of purchasing style. She was dubious of the product, although she thought the salesman looked somehow reliable. After a while, the gadget became her most valuable item. She was standing in front of the mirror-
The door of the boutique opened and the picture on the mirror entered. Soon a female shop clerk appeared and said to her smiling, "May I help you?" The voice sounded from the speaker of the frame of the mirror but, she didn't even notice it. She said, "Yes. I'd like to choose my summer dress today. As it's getting hotter here." The clerk smiled and said, "You are in the Ukraine, right?" The woman smiled back, "Yes. And you are in South Africa. Cape Town, I suppose." The clerk said, "You know well! We are in the opposite season!" They laughed. Actually, she knew that this shop chain was located in cities all over the world, and because of her time zone, her mirror machine accessed to the shop in Cape Town. As the clerk said, Cape Town was approaching the winter season, in the building, they served fashionable late spring & summer clothing though. "So, …" the clerk started to walk, and the mirror followed her. She could see the various types of female clothing on the mannequins. The clerk came to the corner of the summer dresses and started to show her each dress one by one. It was like she was watching a magic show because each dress appeared in the clerk's hand one after another, at a certain interval, it was just computer imaging. The woman said, "Stop. Show me the sunflower pattern one again, please?" The clerk nodded. Soon, the mirror changed into a new mode, and now reflected the woman like a normal mirror; but, different from a normal mirror, behind of her, the clerk in the shop was standing, holding the dress she chose. This was the scene that she liked the best. When the dress came in front of her, the dress started to fit her body, changing from her original clothes, little by little. After several seconds she was standing in the sunflower dress in the mirror. The clerk looking at her said, "It's cute! Don't you think so?" The woman nodded and turned around checking the side and back of the dress. She had no idea how this technology worked. She couldn't see any difference from standing in front of a mirror in a 'real' shop. She tried a couple of other dresses, and decided on one of them, and thanked the clerk, and left the shop by turning off the mirror. As the mirror reflected her body size, the shop immediately sent the information to one of their factories to the nearest to Ukraine. And soon a special printer started to print the dress, and after that it would be cut, and sown; then, delivered to her house by the next day. She liked this quickness, she liked that the dress's colors and design were made precisely from the one that she had seen on the mirror. But, what she liked the most was that she talked to the clerk in person. Sometimes clerks would recommend things, they would socialize a little, and sometimes they would say some compliments. She liked this natural conversation… (To be continued) |
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*preserve保存する
*purchase 購入する
*annoy 面倒くさい
*dubious 疑いの
*socialize 世間話をする