How to Date an Android

Chapter 13 Part A (revised & reworked)!

I wondered too how much of the new trends that people follow were also because they actually liked or wanted old school stability and home life but didn't have the resources or means to have those things...thus they went with the closest thing to an alternative.

"A lot of our research showed that people usually want peaceful and a hermit like paradise but aren't good at being able to work out having to discipline themselves, work hard for it, and over the years kept selling their freedom and giving up more to Corporate rule, back when the big 500 corporations bought the government," she said carefully. People disliked talking about that, and even whole fights and violence could break out just by mentioning the idea. She'd taken a risk by discussing it with me.

I didn't say anything. I didn't want to talk about that. Cops also had a tendency to be able to find stuff easily to lock people up on when they mentioned Corporations taking over the government too.

"This one is an old Forbes magazine. You are welcome to take a look at it," she said, being very careful with the vintage pages.

"It still smells new," I said laughing. I loved the smell of new books, and paper bookstore things. Of course now days it was a simulated smell that they'd recreated since very few books were sold in paper form, but the paper book smell was associated almost like being therapeutic.

"Are you going to take a look?" she asked while smiling brightly with her hands on her knees. She's watching me expectantly.

"To the bookmarked spot?" I confirmed.

She nodded.

"Top traits sought after in a girlfriend. Is that what you wanted me to see?" I read from the article directly while she's watching me. She nods.

"Yes. That's the one. You don't need to read it aloud," she said. But she bats her glistening eyes at me. "But it wouldn't be terrible for you to read for me. I don't mind studying...human behavior of many kinds."

To sum it up, it listed the following traits as follows;

"Sports die hard, Comical or enjoys funny stuff or playing, Unafraid to speak up, Down to Earth, Supportive, stands up for herself & others, the girl all the other guys want, will spend time with your family and hangs out, driven, confident, and content," I read it aloud anyway.

"This is the part where you are like why do I need to see this in purchasing an android," Barbara said to me.

"Yeah, pretty much. I am curious why you are doing this," I responded.

"Basically I wanted to show you our society is flawed. Whether you are android or human doesn't really matter but if someone is emulating personality traits that aren't actually the most needed traits then the product will miss the mark. Scientists have noticed a difference between the quality of android that turns out from people that go after the wrong things but don't catch it until later when they feel anguish and want a change. So this exercise is basically to help you iron out the personality matrix that will be chosen for your new lover," she summed up, all while still looking like a news video feed reporter in quality and style.

"So if those are the wrong traits, I'm open minded about suggestions. But I'm not easy or a pushover. And I'm not sure why you'd say those were the wrong traits," I said. I wouldn't have picked all the traits she'd just shown me earlier anyway.

"Good because I'd like you to compare this list with two other lists, and then think about it. Then tomorrow or the next day we can finalize your android purchase after you have a cool down time," she said.

"Why not just finalize now?" I asked.

"This type of approach was recommended by a human and android psychology specialist counselor from MIT. They estimate by doing it this way after seeing more than one approach to seeing different partner traits and comparing them with what simulates peaceful synergy for the human partner to make the best stability and desired outcome. But since I'm not human I don't know, but I have to focus my calculations for success on what the greatest mathematical proven working stats can do and this seems to follow it," Barbara shrugged.