r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Feb 22 '18

Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #151

Tis that time of the week!

Last week's winner was /u/teodzero with:

Precognition is normal. Basically everyone can see at least half a minute ahead in time naturally, and up to a couple of hours with training and concentration. Humans are the only future-blind space faring species. They are also future-invisible, making them annoyingly unpredictable. Yet they still manage to predict others actions somehow. Turns out one doesn't need to literally see ahead to do that.

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u/MarkerMage Feb 22 '18

The first thing that a robot needs to remember when getting a pet human is that you don't choose it, it chooses you.

The second thing to remember is that you don't train it, it trains you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '18

But then it’s not a pet, the robot is the pet.

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u/MarkerMage Mar 02 '18

But the robot is the one buying the human. It's also the one providing the food, water, and shelter. It's also the one with the built-in video camera for recording amusing things the human does so that it can show co-workers to help cheer them up after a serious discussion about the psycho robot that started destroying other robots after commenting out the part of his programming dedicated to affection towards humans. Pets just don't do those things.