How to Date an Android

Chapter 8, revised and improved

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Chapter 8

It's been two more days since I got home from the hospital. And naturally I'm still healing up but no longer at death's door. My datapad voice mail is full of angry customer calls that I have to take time to sort out. I dealt with the easier calls first, to get through as much of what I could quickly. Plus the hard cases wouldn't be cleared up right away anyway, so why ruin my day right at the beginning? Only two of my customers have to be dealt with right away. The others can be pushed back or the work sent to someone else instead; I don't like it but hey I'll still be healing for months.

It's the same two troublesome customers that had their car at my shop this whole time, but the cops have already returned their vehicles to them. I called them first to clear things up and explain things, that it wasn't our fault. Naturally they didn't care what happened and screamed about keeping their car so long.

Why doesn't talking to them get anywhere? It seems like in the end it's up to the lawyers and who knows where that will go since they always feed themselves first. My money still isn't resolved and a lot of it was stolen.

Jeez...

The problem with a highly technological society is how void of affection people are because they are always talking or communicating via distance or a machine. And it just so happens that it's easy to say no or be wishy washy when talking to a machine with excuses.

Officers Diaz and Smith didn't even come out to meet me. Does that mean they even are giving proper attention to my case? Everyone was done talking to them via video feeds regarding my case, in regards to any potential bank contacts, the hospital staff, etc. I didn't really like talking through video feeds much because people would act a bit different in them than if you were next to them. So sometimes they'd be ruder than normal because you weren't right there to want to hit them. Or people could sometimes also be triggered to be kinder in person also.

Diaz and Smith are mostly unavailable for comment I found out three calls later, only getting a message video feed message system. They did leave me a message saying the case was already closed via their secretary who was probably doing it because she had a better face and looked more pleasing than they did but it was kind of a half effort I think. The mortgage and some credits for my utilities will be covered by the violent crime fund for three months. I'm also given temporary help for groceries by the state for three months but that's through food stamps and some other things. I feel bad because I haven't ever had to use or apply for food stamps and have until now worked for a living. Having to apply for food stamps and government aid feels like walking around naked on the street in some ways.

That gives a very short time frame to get into shape and work hard or lose my place to live soon. Even if I have already paid a lot and put a lot of equity into this house, that doesn't mean they wouldn't take it. They could reinvent all kinds of fees and surcharges in all this too by processing it. In fact, they'd be more likely to want to take it because they could try to cache in on that equity I'd built up for a while and the equity that I'd inherited from my parents possessing it before me.