Robot Maker, page 5

He debated wether to go into the ice cream parlor. And decided to go in even though there were lots of people and he might have to say hi to someone but, so what he really wanted an ice cream cone.

His favorite flavor of ice cream was chocolate chip so decided to order ten chocolate chip ice cream cones. Why order just one when he could order as many as he wanted. He was not sure how long it would take him to eat that many ice cream cones. But, he would get them all eaten. He ordered the ice cream and sat down at a booth while the clerk made them and it would take a minute or two because there were so many cones to be made. One the clerk finished making them he brought them to Stetsons booth on a giant platter.He tried to say hi and be friendly to stetson but stetson just ignored him and waved his hand to shoo the clerk away. He did not want to start being friendly to people after all the years of not being friendly to people.

Stetson immediately dug into one of the chocolate chip ice cream cones and ate it in just a few bites and stated to have the worst ice cream headache of his life. It was at that moment that he remember why he stopped eating ice cream in the first place. He stopped because he aways ate the ice cream to fast and got lots and lots of ice cream headaches which made he feel miserable. So that is why he went cold turnkey on the ice cream.

He started in on the second chocolate chip ice cream cone and vowed to eat it slow so as not to get the dreaded ice cream headache. And so he made it happen and do not get a headache. He looked out the window to watch passerby. He saw a women pushing her baby in a stroller and man walking his immaculately groomed poodle. He was beginning to enjoy himself. He even thought that he might start walking around the city on a regular basis. Though he still did not want to talk to people or look them in the eye.

He preceded to eat the rest of the ice cream cones without incident. He had already payed for the cones so after he finished eating all but, one he walked out of the ice cream parlor and onto the still sunny streets of computer city. It was getting late though so he decided to head back to his apartment. The sun was going down so he had to hurry as he was afraid of the dark. He decided to walk back the way he came and so it would take him about an hour or two to get back to his apartment and luckily it would not be dark before he got back to his apartment.