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Mark Vandersluis works as an IT manager for a telecoms company in England. With a lifelong interest in all things science and technology, this is his first SF story.
Welcome to our upcycling facility! Do you want any help or are you just browsing? Just browsing? Well, if you need any help or advice from me just press your proboscis against the red button. No colour vision? Oh, well, the red button is the triangular one to your righ … er, π/2 radians clockwise … oh, that means roughly π/2 radians rotationally around your vertical axis starting from a vector drawn between our bodies. No, not that way, there’s nothing in that rotational direction. The other way. We call it clockwise according to local convention. No, I have no idea what ‘clock’ means or why it is wise. Anyway, just press the re … er, the triangular button to summon me.