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February 26, 2006
Siren Chip
Jake looked at her watch. It was 11:45pm and she was already 10 minutes late. The road was kind of empty and she pushed on the gas pedal. She couldn't possibly miss the new years' party at her friend's house. "If only there was a faster way of travelling", she thought.
She was getting lost in her thoughts when suddenly she heard police sirens. She always hated the police, not because she broke the law too many times, but because of their inflexibility. They were only taught to enforce the law, exactly like how it was written, without knowing the philosophy behind them and being able to bend them to fit the situation, like a robot. Well, at least most of the police officers, and all of the ones she had "met" were like that. Once, she even dated a policeman, but she had to break up, because one day she parked her car in front of a parkometer, paid the fee, but she was 5 minutes late. So her "boyfriend" at the time, gave her a ticket.
Getting back to the current situation, she looked in the mirror. There was no police car. She was slowly getting used to this situation, it was the 4th time this had happened on that day. She had got a few tickets for speeding before, and at the end, since she didn't have the money to pay them, the judge had decided to go with the "chip". They installed it yesterday. She reached to her head, almost subconciously and touched her skull where a little area, the size of a nickel, was shaved. That's where the chip was installed. The chip, as they had told her, could communicate with the sattelite and identify where she was, and knowing the speed limit for that zone, it would start a police siren in her head, if she was going too fast. And "too fast" meant 5 kilometers above the limit, this time it was a real "robot" enforcing the law. The problem was that the chip was not that "smart" yet. If she was going in some other person's car and they were going too fast, the chip would still start making the siren sound in her head. If she wanted to go by the airplane or train or anything else, she had to go to the police office, with valid proof of travelling and exact times of departure and arrival, and they would program the chip to be silent at that period.
She couldn't possibly miss the new years, but she couldn't stand the siren sound in her head anymore either. The more it went on, the louder and the more annoying and unbearable it would get. She didn't have a choice, so she pushed on the breaks. As soon as the speed dropped below 60, the siren went off. She looked in front of her and in the mirror. There were no cars on the highway.
Posted by masoud at February 26, 2006 08:19 AM
Comments
WOW... I loved it... the ending is great.
Posted by: Ninjaess at March 26, 2006 03:09 PM