FF – RoboCity
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Na’ama Yehuda.
I had a lot of trouble thinking of a story for this one, and a very busy day at work too.
Copyright Na’ama Yehuda
“We’ve been here ages. Nobody’s moving. What’s going on?”
The manhole covers opened and a horde of machines, emblazoned with ‘StreetBot’, shot out and began cleaning the road. A nearby pedestrian noted the motionless cars, saw his chance and began to cross. A bot, emblazoned “JaywalkerBot” appeared, took aim and fired.
His bullet-ridden corpse was, of course, dragged away by a small army of ‘CorpseBots’.
“I say, they have a bot for everything! Well, I’m not waiting here any longer.”
His car moved off through the red light.
Unsurprisingly – I’m sure you’ve guessed – enter heavily-armed, missiles primed, ‘RedLightBot’…
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draliman on life 
The age of the bots has begun, with it’s good sides and bad sides. You can’t have do-all-the-work bots without heavily armed red-light bots.
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Yep, it’s all or nothing in RoboCity.
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Red light bot might not be a bad idea, but the punishment for jaywalking seems a bit steep! 😉
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Very binary, these bots. if(lawbroken){kill_kill_kill}; 🙂
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Tough love
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People gotta learn. I bet no-one else will cross before the little green man appears.
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HAHAHA! I would like a bot to do the housecleaning!
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You can get little vacuuming bots!
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‘Ware the bots! Great take on the photo prompt.
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Thanks, these bots brook no nonsense.
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It had to come!
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We’re on the way out, I’m afraid.
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They’re going to pick us off, one by one, until they have the place to themselves. Then what will they do for amusement?
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I bet they haven’t looked that far ahead. Foolish bots!
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Haha corpse bots. Terminator eat your heart out.
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Those Terminators just left the bodies lying around. Very messy.
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Wow! Those bots are strict. I wonder where they dispose of the bodies. 😦 — Suzanne
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I don’t think we really want to know 🙂
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Oooh! I’ll bet CollateralDamageBot has a lot of fun sweeping away all of the bystander carnage…
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There are more CollateralDamageBots than anything else…
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bots are good enforcers because they don’t have feelings. 🙂
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Yes – makes them efficient anyway… 🙂
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Dear Ali,
Shazz-bot! There’s one for everything. I’d like to have a laundry-bot and cleaning-bot. Sigh. Cute one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
An ironing bot would be good for me! And also a weeding bot.
Ali
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Laughing. The Land of the Free, where your bizarre ‘jaywalking’ is punishable by death.
Love it.
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Getting fined for jaywalking is bad enough, let alone being shot dead. I’m glad you liked it!
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Bots for this, bots for that and bots for the other!
Here’s mine!
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Here a bot, there a bot, everywhere a bot bot!
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This would be hilarious if it didn’t bear the ring of truth!
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Yes, how long before we see this happen in front of us!
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Some people just don’t get it. So sad. ;0(
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Yes.
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I liked the very drastic turn this took. They should have a bot for NonMaskWearer and QuarantineBreaker and sundry other rule-breakers 🙂
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I’m with you! I’m sorry, you’ve invited all your mates around for a house party? Rat-a-tat-a-tat 🙂
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Yes, desperate times call for drastic measures 😦
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MOL…we need more bots…I’m a black and white bot…MOL…😸Pawkisses for a Happy 4th of July🐾😽💞
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A furry fluffy black and white bot 🙂
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An inventive take of the prompt, made me smile. I like the aside to the reader, sort of wry humour.
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I’m glad you liked it!
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Well, someone’s got to keep order! 😉
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And aren’t they doing a great job 🙂
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Yep. That’s exactly how it is. Good story.
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Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
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That’s a tad extreme… Are these Bots everywhere? If not.. I’m choosing to go where there are none!
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They may be everywhere… until a law is broken, you just can’t tell… 🙂
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Problem is, the laws being broken seem rather aleatory!
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Well, I’ve Googled “aleatory” and it is a real word 🙂
Yes, they are!
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You doubted me?
And they are!
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Bothersome bots – the way to the future.
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They’re slowly taking over…
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LOL at RedLightBot. For an allegedly uninspired story, this one turned out quite well. I’d probably want to get out of this town too – but very carefully.
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Probably best to take public transport and sit quietly at the back!
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