How to Date an Android

Chapter 13 Part A (revised & reworked)!

That was also still not counting the outright hype ads that were fed into the net over the years of crazy pyramid schemes and wonder miracle drugs that had no real basis. The most common was a drug to make your genitalia double in size. That scam had been around for years to target high school kids but nobody had actually come up with anything until last year a scientist claimed to have created the real thing. Then suddenly three months later after the product was selling wildly off the shelves, there was a massive Fed raid on his laboratory that got a lot of public notice and special features on CNN and other news networks for actually causing it's patients to create puss filled protuberances all over a patient's body, including face, hands, and head over an inch wide and long. Not to mention peeing something that looked like bloody gravy instead of urine with extreme pain...and hemorrhoids.

A lot of the survivors wanted to commit suicide...often. There were also a few amputation incidents for the same penile enlargement drug.

"Computer recheck data and exclude sources that aren't tied to credible sources like scientific journals, engineering and manufacturing forums with sufficient evidence," I said.

"Loading please, wait..."

Then a short time later, "data is as previously stated."

I'd been feeling a lot better lately and able to stay on my feet for up to an hour at a time without a rest the last couple days.

I was surprised when next I received a knock at the door. It also reminds me of how much time has passed while I've been searching and looking up stuff.

"Just a minute," I said through the intercom.

"No problem Jack. I can wait a bit for you," came back the reply. She is emulating a cheerful human tone too, and I'm curious how she learned to do it so well. She hit the doorbell again too, even though she's already talked to me.

It was Barbara's voice again. Wow, she's persistent. But who wouldn't want an attractive supermodel like woman coming to your house, even if she was an android. She tends to dress a little bit...provocative but still modest by today's standards. She doesn't show a lot of skin but just manages to have her outfits bring out her best figure. Actually she dressed very modestly, but her body was just provocative in absolutely anything you put her into.

It took me a few minutes to get to the door and clean of my hands from trying to go through my tools. I'd been cleaning things up but it was hard work even lifting light exercise weights.

I opened the front door easily enough, but it took me about a full two minutes to get the thirty feet over to the door by hand without the wheelchair and using hand canes. By the time I got there I'm starting to sweat already because it's really tough work.

"Wow, Jack. You aren't supposed to be out of the chair yet!" Barbara is looking at me in alarm.

"I need to get on my feet as soon as possible," I said.

"Wow, you really are pushing yourself. Don't do too much OK," she said while looking me over.

"No it's fine. The sooner I push against the resistance the healthier I'll get quicker," I said.

"Let me help you!" she said. She gently put her hand on my wrist, and it startled me. I wasn't used to any kind of woman doing that, let alone someone very attractive.

"No it's fine. I need to do this to get stronger," I huffed and waved her off. I have to go slow though.

She follows me while keeping an arm and her hands ready to grab me from behind if I start to fall. But I am trying to be careful to not feel even though the physical strain feels like I'm living two hundred pounds above my head.