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Chapter 11 - KAPOWEE!

        

THE STORY OF DEL - Delete

Heartened, Del checked how Amazon stock was doing and sure enough, it was going great guns! They had just bought the Galápagos Islands from Ecuador...


...and were now investing bigtime in an innovative Hyperloop delivery system that could get any product to its customer within 5 seconds from the order.
Every home would be equipped with a high-tech dumbwaitress called 'Lorraine.'
'Honey, what do you say we buy this Pentola Crockpot Slow Cooker?' 'Sure, Marge, good idea.' CLICK! Mississippi one, Mississippi two, Mississippi three…
WHOOSSSSH -- PLOONK! And voilà Pentola Crockpot Slow Cooker! 
One click. A single click of the mouse (or poke of a finger) and through Amazon - thanks also to Del's MINUS 25 dollar investment - every commodity known to man would be instantly available.
One click... like Santo Katrulz!
One click... like Amazon's Lorraine.
And soon, if he worked well and hard: one Click for the late, great and never forgotten Del's Un-doodoo button!
Of course, the supposed evils of life would still happen, but now they'd be short-lived. And if by chance the un-doodoo proved to be worse than the doodoo, there would be a re-doodoo.
What a beautiful thing! Modern hardware at the service of the timeless wisdom of the orient and…

KAPOWEE!
...that's when Del was hit by a speeding, full-electric Toyota.


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