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Chapter: 6
Title: "Jetson Style Box"
Author: Timothy L. Drobnick Sr.
"Jetson Style Box"
And now continuing:
Nobody else had one. At least no one that I had seen.
Of course this was in 1970. Robots and flying cars had
not been invented yet. Those were due out in the year
2000. So something that seems pretty basic today was
quite fascinating then.
But this guy had a Jetson type device on the front of
his house. And we walked by it every day and looked
at it.
"Go push the button!" My best friend Jim would prod me.
"No! That would be rude! Why don't you?" I would reply.
"I don't want to, you do it!" Jim had a lot of phobias
and new things was one of them.
I did not want to be rude so I would not go push the button
to see what would happen. So each day we would just walk
past it.
One day I got Grit. Grit was a newspaper that you could
only get from a newspaper carrier. It was a politer version
of "Enquirer" or maybe "People" magazine. There were general
interest stories about people, celebrities etc.
To be a Grit newspaper carrier you filled out a form in the
back of a comic book. Grit would ship you a bundle of
newspapers and your job would be to sell them and mail back
Grit's price and keep a small profit for yourself.
This was the perfect opportunity. To sell the Grit I had
to go door to door to find customers. I was going to go
push that button.
"Jim come with me!" I screamed as I ran past his house.
Jim catapulted off his porch and followed. We went to the
house with the button.
The button had a small shiny perforated box attached to it.
A nice small sign above it said "No Solicitors"
I had no idea what a solicitor was.
"Are you going to do it?" Jim asked with a straining whine in
his voice.
I pushed the button.
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