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I tried opening my smart fridge to no avail.
Oopsie! It looks like our system had a boo-boo! ERROR CODE: 0x0BEEEEEB
said the screen of the fridge.
I cursed under my breath. Whatever happened to the fridges of my youth? Manual open, manual close, and there was a lightbulb. It was simple, it was reliable, but somebody had the bright idea to make the door automatic and make a screen display the weather.
“Obey me you dumb machine!” I said as I grabbed the door and tried to pry it apart. But it didn’t respect my authority.
“Oh, it’s that fridge again?” asked Elaine 538.
“Yeah, you know how to fix it?” I asked. Sometimes having a younger clone of oneself could be incredibly handy, despite the costs.
“I always just do this,” my clone said, approaching the wall. She pulled the plug of the fridge and the screen went blank.
“So now it’s on manual mode?” I asked.
“Nah, we’re just going to turn it back on again,” said Elain 538. She plugged the fridge back in and the same error returned.
“Well, that’s suspicious,” said Elaine. “A persistent bug. Or worse.”
Each part was written in 15 minutes in a Joy of Writing session.