7 Wire You Looking at My Robot That Way

CHAPTER SEVEN WIRE YOU LOOKING AT MY ROBOT THAT WAY? Franny sat at her desk, grinning. She couldn't wait to give her presentation. "Franny," Miss Shelly said, "would you please come up here and show the class what you've brought in?"

Franny walked confidently to the front of the class. She knew that the kids would take one look at the robot and abandon their ridiculous hobbies. She removed the sheet that had been draped over her creation. The kids gasped. It was a robot. A few lights pulsed slowly on its chest, and they could hear a soft hum coming from inside it. Its tiny square eyes seemed to blink. "Why does it have two heads?" one boy asked. "Two heads are better than one," Franny said. "When it's complete, those two heads will make it twice as smart as the

next smartest robot. Twice as useful, twice as complicated." Franny held up the robot's blueprints for the kids to see.

MY ROBOT COMPUTER BRAINS RIVETED ATTENTION HARD DRIVE NOT SO HARD DRIVE ELBOW GREASE COFFEE MAKER TWO ON THE FLOOR TRANSMISSION THEM'S THE BRAKES THEM'S THE ACCELERATORS HOUSE PLANT POWER PLANT

Miss Shelly said, "Franny, did you say that it wasn't complete yet?" "That's right, Miss Shelly. It's not complete. I'm going to need other mad scientists to help me, other mad scientists from the class, perhaps. Are there any volunteers?" Billy raised his hand. Franny was smug. The first of many volunteers, she thought. "Yes," she said. "You'd like to help?"

"I would," Billy said. "After you finish it, I mean. Then I can teach it to bake pretty, pretty cookies."