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doing my traditional driving duty."

"Okay. See if they've got that neat pink jumper in the
window of Fabrications, and check the price. I'm hoping it'll be
on sale soon. Seeya!"

Julie closed the channel. I grumbled. I hate going into
Fabrications, the salesmen keep trying to get me to buy the
latest trendy cloth sewn in interesting patterns. I didn't give
much truck with Julie's endless quest for clothing. What's the
point, if you have to wear a school uniform?

Now, accents I can buy. Every student modifies the standard
dress-or-workshirt in one way or another... Benton's got his
jacket, Mitch his HAVE A NICE DAY button, me my gloves and
running shoes. That I can handle; total outfit purchases are
just silly.

However, I didn't have enough time to lollygag around the
house. Mitch and Benton would very likely be waiting for me. I
carefully climbed out the window and slid down one of Benton's
prized invisible cables, landing me right in the rover's driver
seat.

I LOVE my rover. I have two babies in my life, my rover and
my palmtop computer. The rover's a latest model Y'uipp Traffic
Smasher, painted candy apple red with more chrome than is legally
allowed. It has a braking system capable of going form sixty to
zero in one second and vice versa. It can go 90 MPH... on two
wheels. 210 on four.

The palmtop is a sleek Macroware palmtop jobbie, a
featureless black lump of plastic with a case for as many
wiretaps you need. Capable of handling multi-phasic viewing to
allow for VOS work as well as sight in reality. Stores more than
you could possibly want to put in it, and has a no-cable link to
both VOSNet and UberNet.

Both go VERY. VERY. FAST.

I keyed in the transmission sequence and put my rover in
reverse, screaming out of the driveway and onto the suburban
asphalt.

I haven't had an accident in a LONG, long time. Well, there
was the time I wiped out Benton's mailbox... and most of his
garage. That's when I first met him actually. We yelled at each
other at first and agreed to go somewhere and have lunch while
discussing the insurance settlement. After that, things mellowed
out and we figured it was better to be bored together than be