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Get in the POOL!

RALPH (laughs bitterly): His days are numbered! I just saw in the
news that a Servotech professor published a whole series of romantic
novels under a pseudonym and they were best sellers—you know, the
Miss Daisy Puller books supposedly written by Maida Whittier
Remarque.

FRANCINE: Really? I read those! It was simply amazing how the
author touched on a woman’s innermost emotions. I guess I can look
forward to a much better quality of fiction from now on.
RALPH: That’s not the point! It’s yet another field of endeavor
people are being pushed out of. Pretty soon we’re all going to be on
the dole.
FRANCINE: Do you really think so? Maybe Servotech Security
Administration will raise allowances and lower prices so we can keep
up our standard of living even without you having a job.

RALPH: I doubt it. We don’t have much leverage simply as
consumers. What’s to keep the Servotechs from developing a
mechanical shopper or eater?

SOUND EFFECT: (doorbell)
SERVOTECH: Your brother is here, Mrs. McGeddin.

FRANCINE: Show him in.
RALPH (groans): Oh, just what I need. Another lecture from Freddy
Sunshine!
FRANCINE: Now you be civil, Ralph McGeddin. Frederick has our
best interests at heart. He’s not here to gloat over your—our—
misfortunes. It might be a good idea to listen to him. He is doing
quite well in business, you know.

RALPH: Oh, how I wish the Servotechs would invent a motorized
greedy capitalist and give him a dose of his own medicine!

FRANCINE: Freddy! How kind of you to take time out from your
busy schedule and pay us a visit!
FRED: Glad to, Sis! How are you doing, Ralph old man? Why so
long in the chin? Lose a bundle on the ponies?

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