Machine Man (serial)

CHAPTER TWENTY

I consider myself a logical person. I don’t play the lottery. I don’t care what my horoscope says. I like movies, but when the love interest ignores explicit instructions and calls home to let her mother know she’s okay and that’s how the bad guys track them down, that drives me nuts. I think most things about the world could be improved if people thought a little more about what they’re doing. When someone gets upset with their computer because it won’t do what they want, I usually side with the computer. I believe art is generally overrated, and things like bridges underrated. In fact, I don’t understand why bridges aren’t art. It seems like they’re being penalized for having a use. If I made a bridge that ended in mid-air, that would be a sculpture, right? But place it between two land masses and have it ferry two hundred thousand cars per day and it’s infrastructure. That makes no sense.

I mention this because some of what I did next was not very logical. And I know if I heard about it from somebody else, I would lose a little respect for that person. I would think: Well that’s just inadequate planning. So I want to say in my defense that I accept that argument, even agree with it, but if you were using nuclear-powered legs to kick your way through a high-technology facility while armed security personnel tried to kill you, you might screw up here and there, too.

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