"Don't worry, I got this," Lloyd said, raising his hand, nothing but calm confidence in his voice. In truth, he wasn't so sure he had this at all. It wasn't that he was incapable of dealing with technology -- nothing like that. Lloyd could handle a tape player or a car radio just fine. But this thing, whatever it was... well, it was obviously way
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But when Lloyd spoke to it, Bert couldn't help it; he snorted. Talking to it like it was an animal or something!
"Lloyd," he said, laughter starting to creep into his voice, "what are you doing?!"
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He gave Lloyd another minute or so of tampering before he held out his own hand and shrugged. "Let me have a look at it."
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He stepped back with a sigh, both reluctant and relieved to be freed from the task. "Just don't blame me if it zaps you or something."
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"Oh," he said, finally. "We're idiots. It needs a battery."
He kenned batterys. He looked for the place they would put a battery once they had one. Hmm... There was a little switch. He slid it over. It didn't do anything. He switched it back. He slid it forward. He switched it back. He slid it forward.
"Oh, what the fuck!" His patience was admittedly spoiled by the fact that he'd expected to have a kind of beginner's luck with it, and now that it was in his hand, he had the wild urge to chuck it at a tree.
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