How to Date an Android

How to Date an Android Chapter 17 Part A (revised!)

Chapter 17 Part A

While waiting for Barbara to come for her appointment I'm getting ready by trying to figure out how to electrify the front gate and metal part of the fence. I could do it, but... if the wrong person touches the fence it could create trouble.

I feel very exposed. And antsy like, I wish there's one more thing I could do to get ready. And its not just that 1 gang that shot up the old lady. I saw several others going by also, doing the same thing. Also in old pick up trucks.

Looters...

They are preying on people, probably because a lot of things are going wrong. How could they be doing that in broad daylight?! And in the very city I live in?! And it was weird that 911 wasn't working earlier.

They shouldn't be able to do that openly! Where are the police?!

But if society is going to fail...shoot, why do I even bother? Electricity would fail eventually too, I realized. But I could build or arrange other things right? So delaying ordering building materials wasn't a good idea after all. The electric fence idea is a bust because it won't last. It's too bad. I could rig up something with car batteries but that would only last as long as I could recharge the car batteries. That was the issue. When electricity fails, so would my fence.

In the end I did rig up the electric fencing but only on a 12 V battery charge. I didn't want to use real house voltage on it, as that might shock people wanting to visit me to like Barbara or her friends.

How much time would I get out of this anyway?

I wanted to test it out on the neighbor's squirrels that keep coming over early in the morning or when they thought people weren't sleeping and since they'd already become a menace to society. That old lady has been claiming they are her pets and been trying to encourage breeding them because she has several really nice tall trees on her property and is some kind of animal rights activist with a vengeance.

Now a couple years later, they are a plague ever since. I'm also curious if she had their genes modded to make them mate more frequently, similar to rabbits. I still keep thinking that she wouldn't miss one or two squirrels...there are just too many of them.

If I have to garden for foot, then I can't have squirrels there anyway. They'd steal the produce.

Well, for now my supplies are in order.

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Then as I'm thinking that Barbara arrives. She's pulled up and ready to pull in the front security gate, but its shut. We wave to each other, as she sees me.

I wonder how long she is going to drag this process out though.

Hitting the security buzzer I opened up the driveway gate, when she pulled up in a nice shiny luxury black sedan. But then I close it back up after she pulls in. Before when she'd visited I'd already had the gate open. But now I don't think it's wise to do that anymore for anyone and for any reason.

Carefully she gets out of the car, in a short skirt again like yesterday. She's in a dark charcoal colored women's business skirt suit again just like always. Her legs look good. She seems to always wear this with only the color changing daily. Maybe her employer keeps her on a short leash. Do they even let her wear normal clothes or only dress up clothes lie if you were meeting a government official or going to church?