I looked once again at my important note on my WhiteBrew mug wondering if there really could be another mine…
…when suddenly, and with no warning, the doorbell of the mine rang… Again!
I threw off my blanket, put down my WhiteBrew and rushed to the front door of the mine to see who it was.
It was George. And he was carrying a considerable amount of paperwork. It also looked like he might have arrived in one of the WashRides I’d sold him.
I didn’t want to say anything, but the papers looked very boring.
They reminded me of 5,000 very boring forms I’d had to sign when selling George the 5,000 WashRides which had funded the latest stage of drilling.
George said that he didn’t think they were boring. In fact, he explained he had been reading them at bedtime every night.
Now personally, I would have expected reading boring contracts send you to sleep almost immediately. And who wants to fall asleep right before bedtime?
George went on to tell me that he had made an important discovery, that actually while he had bought a lot of WashRides he’d actually only bought 4,999 WashRides, so he had needed to bring one back.
Well that all of a sudden made a lot of sense, especially as to why he’d parked up a WashRide outside the mine. I was about to suggest a quick float down some liquid magma to pass the time, when he went on to say that he realised the issue was that one of the 5,000 pieces of paper had said something slightly different than the others.
That seemed weird. Obviously, I had clearly read each and every one of them as I had been signing them. I had hardly fallen asleep more than 300 times (making it take quite a while) but I didn’t remember seeing that one of them was different. But he showed me… and it was.
One of the contracts, with my signature on the bottom wasn’t me selling him a WashRide… it was me selling him my mine!
I immediately wanted to take that contract and rub it out. Now normally contracts are signed in ink which can’t be rubbed out, and this one was too… but that wouldn’t be a problem for me because I have GlideErase.
GlideErase is a combination baby chair and eraser. The chair hovers slightly above the ground, allowing you to effortlessly move your baby around using a remote control. And if you ever need to erase something important, you simply glide the baby over to the correct spot, lower them gently down… …and erase away.
Now, I will admit there is one small drawback. The eraser surface is rather large. So GlideErase is generally better at erasing entire pages than small details. It is also capable of erasing virtually anything, meaning it is extremely important not to let it touch surfaces you would like to remain their current colour.
I wanted to use GlideErase on the contract.
I really did.
But there was a problem. Recently, one of the miners had placed their baby inside the GlideErase…
…and accidentally handed the controller to the baby.
The baby immediately went rogue. Three carpets had been completely de-coloured.
Two sofas had been partially erased. And the baby was still on the run. Pursued, presumably, by its parent.
So, I had absolutely no way of rubbing it out.
I had lost my mine… forever.
If you want to help me buy back my mine, you better buy a GlideErase now.
Note to self: Maybe add a safety feature preventing the GlideErase being controlled from inside the GlideErase.
