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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: A Bad Day for Sales - -Author: Fritz Leiber - -Release Date: January 1, 2016 [EBook #50819] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BAD DAY FOR SALES *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="362" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>A BAD DAY FOR SALES</h1> - -<p>By FRITZ LEIBER</p> - -<p>Illustrated by EMSH</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Science Fiction July 1953.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>Don't wait to "Get 'em while they're hot."<br /> -By then, it is too late to get them of all!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The big bright doors of the office building parted with a pneumatic -<i>whoosh</i> and Robie glided onto Times Square. The crowd that had been -watching the fifty-foot-tall girl on the clothing billboard get -dressed, or reading the latest news about the Hot Truce scrawl itself -in yard-high script, hurried to look.</p> - -<p>Robie was still a novelty. Robie was fun. For a little while yet, he -could steal the show. But the attention did not make Robie proud. He -had no more emotions than the pink plastic giantess, who dressed and -undressed endlessly whether there was a crowd or the street was empty, -and who never once blinked her blue mechanical eyes. But she merely -drew business while Robie went out after it.</p> - -<p>For Robie was the logical conclusion of the development of vending -machines. All the earlier ones had stood in one place, on a floor or -hanging on a wall, and blankly delivered merchandise in return for -coins, whereas Robie searched for customers. He was the demonstration -model of a line of sales robots to be manufactured by Shuler Vending -Machines, provided the public invested enough in stocks to give the -company capital to go into mass production.</p> - -<p>The publicity Robie drew stimulated investments handsomely. It was -amusing to see the TV and newspaper coverage of Robie selling, but not -a fraction as much fun as being approached personally by him. Those -who were usually bought anywhere from one to five hundred shares, if -they had any money and foresight enough to see that sales robots would -eventually be on every street and highway in the country.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Robie radared the crowd, found that it surrounded him solidly, and -stopped. With a carefully built-in sense of timing, he waited for the -tension and expectation to mount before he began talking.</p> - -<p>"Say, Ma, he doesn't look like a robot at all," a child said. "He looks -like a turtle."</p> - -<p>Which was not completely inaccurate. The lower part of Robie's body was -a metal hemisphere hemmed with sponge rubber and not quite touching the -sidewalk. The upper was a metal box with black holes in it. The box -could swivel and duck.</p> - -<p>A chromium-bright hoopskirt with a turret on top.</p> - -<p>"Reminds me too much of the Little Joe Paratanks," a legless veteran -of the Persian War muttered, and rapidly rolled himself away on wheels -rather like Robie's.</p> - -<p>His departure made it easier for some of those who knew about Robie to -open a path in the crowd. Robie headed straight for the gap. The crowd -whooped.</p> - -<p>Robie glided very slowly down the path, deftly jogging aside whenever -he got too close to ankles in skylon or sockassins. The rubber buffer -on his hoopskirt was merely an added safeguard.</p> - -<p>The boy who had called Robie a turtle jumped in the middle of the path -and stood his ground, grinning foxily.</p> - -<p>Robie stopped two feet short of him. The turret ducked. The crowd got -quiet.</p> - -<p>"Hello, youngster," Robie said in a voice that was smooth as that of a -TV star, and was, in fact, a recording of one.</p> - -<p>The boy stopped smiling. "Hello," he whispered.</p> - -<p>"How old are you?" Robie asked.</p> - -<p>"Nine. No, eight."</p> - -<p>"That's nice," Robie observed. A metal arm shot down from his neck, -stopped just short of the boy.</p> - -<p>The boy jerked back.</p> - -<p>"For you," Robie said.</p> - -<p>The boy gingerly took the red polly-lop from the neatly fashioned blunt -metal claws, and began to unwrap it.</p> - -<p>"Nothing to say?" asked Robie.</p> - -<p>"Uh—thank you."</p> - -<p>After a suitable pause, Robie continued. "And how about a nice -refreshing drink of Poppy Pop to go with your polly-lop?" The boy -lifted his eyes, but didn't stop licking the candy. Robie waggled his -claws slightly. "Just give me a quarter and within five seconds—"</p> - -<p>A little girl wriggled out of the forest of legs. "Give me a polly-lop, -too, Robie," she demanded.</p> - -<p>"Rita, come back here!" a woman in the third rank of the crowd called -angrily.</p> - -<p>Robie scanned the newcomer gravely. His reference silhouettes were not -good enough to let him distinguish the sex of children, so he merely -repeated, "Hello, youngster."</p> - -<p>"Rita!"</p> - -<p>"Give me a polly-lop!"</p> - -<p>Disregarding both remarks, for a good salesman is single-minded and -does not waste bait, Robie said winningly, "I'll bet you read <i>Junior -Space Killers</i>. Now I have here—"</p> - -<p>"Uh-uh, I'm a girl. <i>He</i> got a polly-lop."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>At the word "girl," Robie broke off. Rather ponderously, he said, "I'll -bet you read <i>Gee-Gee Jones, Space Stripper</i>. Now I have here the -latest issue of that thrilling comic, not yet in the stationary vending -machines. Just give me fifty cents and within five—"</p> - -<p>"Please let me through. I'm her mother."</p> - -<p>A young woman in the front rank drawled over her powder-sprayed -shoulder, "I'll get her for you," and slithered out on six-inch -platform shoes. "Run away, children," she said nonchalantly. Lifting -her arms behind her head, she pirouetted slowly before Robie to show -how much she did for her bolero half-jacket and her form-fitting slacks -that melted into skylon just above the knees. The little girl glared at -her. She ended the pirouette in profile.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="370" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>At this age-level, Robie's reference silhouettes permitted him to -distinguish sex, though with occasional amusing and embarrassing -miscalls. He whistled admiringly. The crowd cheered.</p> - -<p>Someone remarked critically to a friend, "It would go over better if he -was built more like a real robot. You know, like a man."</p> - -<p>The friend shook his head. "This way it's subtler."</p> - -<p>No one in the crowd was watching the newscript overhead as it -scribbled, "Ice Pack for Hot Truce? Vanadin hints Russ may yield on -Pakistan."</p> - -<p>Robie was saying, "... in the savage new glamor-tint we have christened -Mars Blood, complete with spray applicator and fit-all fingerstalls -that mask each finger completely except for the nail. Just give me five -dollars—uncrumpled bills may be fed into the revolving rollers you see -beside my arm—and within five seconds—"</p> - -<p>"No, thanks, Robie," the young woman yawned.</p> - -<p>"Remember," Robie persisted, "for three more weeks, seductivizing Mars -Blood will be unobtainable from any other robot or human vendor."</p> - -<p>"No, thanks."</p> - -<p>Robie scanned the crowd resourcefully. "Is there any gentleman -here ..." he began just as a woman elbowed her way through the front -rank.</p> - -<p>"I told you to come back!" she snapped at the little girl.</p> - -<p>"But I didn't get my polly-lop!"</p> - -<p>"... who would care to...."</p> - -<p>"Rita!"</p> - -<p>"Robie cheated. Ow!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Meanwhile, the young woman in the half bolero had scanned the nearby -gentlemen on her own. Deciding that there was less than a fifty per -cent chance of any of them accepting the proposition Robie seemed about -to make, she took advantage of the scuffle to slither gracefully back -into the ranks. Once again the path was clear before Robie.</p> - -<p>He paused, however, for a brief recapitulation of the more magical -properties of Mars Blood, including a telling phrase about "the -passionate claws of a Martian sunrise."</p> - -<p>But no one bought. It wasn't quite time. Soon enough silver coins would -be clinking, bills going through the rollers faster than laundry, and -five hundred people struggling for the privilege of having their money -taken away from them by America's first mobile sales robot.</p> - -<p>But there were still some tricks that Robie had to do free, and one -certainly should enjoy those before starting the more expensive fun.</p> - -<p>So Robie moved on until he reached the curb. The variation in level was -instantly sensed by his under-scanners. He stopped. His head began to -swivel. The crowd watched in eager silence. This was Robie's best trick.</p> - -<p>Robie's head stopped swiveling. His scanners had found the traffic -light. It was green. Robie edged forward. But then the light turned -red. Robie stopped again, still on the curb. The crowd softly <i>ahhed</i> -its delight.</p> - -<p>It was wonderful to be alive and watching Robie on such an exciting -day. Alive and amused in the fresh, weather-controlled air between the -lines of bright skyscrapers with their winking windows and under a sky -so blue you could almost call it dark.</p> - -<p>(But way, way up, where the crowd could not see, the sky was darker -still. Purple-dark, with stars showing. And in that purple-dark, a -silver-green something, the color of a bud, plunged down at better than -three miles a second. The silver-green was a newly developed paint that -foiled radar.)</p> - -<p>Robie was saying, "While we wait for the light, there's time for -you youngsters to enjoy a nice refreshing Poppy Pop. Or for you -adults—only those over five feet tall are eligible to buy—to enjoy -an exciting Poppy Pop fizz. Just give me a quarter or—in the case of -adults, one dollar and a quarter; I'm licensed to dispense intoxicating -liquors—and within five seconds...."</p> - -<p>But that was not cutting it quite fine enough. Just three seconds -later, the silver-green bud bloomed above Manhattan into a globular -orange flower. The skyscrapers grew brighter and brighter still, the -brightness of the inside of the Sun. The windows winked blossoming -white fire-flowers.</p> - -<p>The crowd around Robie bloomed, too. Their clothes puffed into petals -of flame. Their heads of hair were torches.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The orange flower grew, stem and blossom. The blast came. The winking -windows shattered tier by tier, became black holes. The walls bent, -rocked, cracked. A stony dandruff flaked from their cornices. The -flaming flowers on the sidewalk were all leveled at once. Robie was -shoved ten feet. His metal hoopskirt dimpled, regained its shape.</p> - -<p>The blast ended. The orange flower, grown vast, vanished overhead -on its huge, magic beanstalk. It grew dark and very still. The -cornice-dandruff pattered down. A few small fragments rebounded from -the metal hoopskirt.</p> - -<p>Robie made some small, uncertain movements, as if feeling for broken -bones. He was hunting for the traffic light, but it no longer shone -either red or green.</p> - -<p>He slowly scanned a full circle. There was nothing anywhere to -interest his reference silhouettes. Yet whenever he tried to move, his -under-scanners warned him of low obstructions. It was very puzzling.</p> - -<p>The silence was disturbed by moans and a crackling sound, as faint at -first as the scampering of distant rats.</p> - -<p>A seared man, his charred clothes fuming where the blast had blown out -the fire, rose from the curb. Robie scanned him.</p> - -<p>"Good day, sir," Robie said. "Would you care for a smoke? A truly cool -smoke? Now I have here a yet-unmarketed brand...."</p> - -<p>But the customer had run away, screaming, and Robie never ran after -customers, though he could follow them at a medium brisk roll. He -worked his way along the curb where the man had sprawled, carefully -keeping his distance from the low obstructions, some of which writhed -now and then, forcing him to jog. Shortly he reached a fire hydrant. -He scanned it. His electronic vision, though it still worked, had been -somewhat blurred by the blast.</p> - -<p>"Hello, youngster," Robie said. Then, after a long pause, "Cat got your -tongue? Well, I have a little present for you. A nice, lovely polly-lop.</p> - -<p>"Take it, youngster," he said after another pause. "It's for you. Don't -be afraid."</p> - -<p>His attention was distracted by other customers, who began to rise -up oddly here and there, twisting forms that confused his reference -silhouettes and would not stay to be scanned properly. One cried, -"Water," but no quarter clinked in Robie's claws when he caught the -word and suggested, "How about a nice refreshing drink of Poppy Pop?"</p> - -<p>The rat-crackling of the flames had become a jungle muttering. The -blind windows began to wink fire again.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A little girl marched, stepping neatly over arms and legs she did -not look at. A white dress and the once taller bodies around her had -shielded her from the brilliance and the blast. Her eyes were fixed on -Robie. In them was the same imperious confidence, though none of the -delight, with which she had watched him earlier.</p> - -<p>"Help me, Robie," she said. "I want my mother."</p> - -<p>"Hello, youngster," Robie said. "What would you like? Comics? Candy?"</p> - -<p>"Where is she, Robie? Take me to her."</p> - -<p>"Balloons? Would you like to watch me blow up a balloon?"</p> - -<p>The little girl began to cry. The sound triggered off another of -Robie's novelty circuits, a service feature that had brought in a lot -of favorable publicity.</p> - -<p>"Is something wrong?" he asked. "Are you in trouble? Are you lost?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, Robie. Take me to my mother."</p> - -<p>"Stay right here," Robie said reassuringly, "and don't be frightened. -I will call a policeman." He whistled shrilly, twice.</p> - -<p>Time passed. Robie whistled again. The windows flared and roared. The -little girl begged, "Take me away, Robie," and jumped onto a little -step in his hoopskirt.</p> - -<p>"Give me a dime," Robie said.</p> - -<p>The little girl found one in her pocket and put it in his claws.</p> - -<p>"Your weight," Robie said, "is fifty-four and one-half pounds."</p> - -<p>"Have you seen my daughter, have you seen her?" a woman was -crying somewhere. "I left her watching that thing while I stepped -inside—<i>Rita!</i>"</p> - -<p>"Robie helped me," the little girl began babbling at her. "He knew I -was lost. He even called the police, but they didn't come. He weighed -me, too. Didn't you, Robie?"</p> - -<p>But Robie had gone off to peddle Poppy Pop to the members of a rescue -squad which had just come around the corner, more robotlike in their -asbestos suits than he in his metal skin.</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Bad Day for Sales, by Fritz Leiber - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BAD DAY FOR SALES *** - -***** This file should be named 50819-h.htm or 50819-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/8/1/50819/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: A Bad Day for Sales - -Author: Fritz Leiber - -Release Date: January 1, 2016 [EBook #50819] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BAD DAY FOR SALES *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - A BAD DAY FOR SALES - - By FRITZ LEIBER - - Illustrated by EMSH - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Science Fiction July 1953. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - Don't wait to "Get 'em while they're hot." - By then, it is too late to get them of all! - - -The big bright doors of the office building parted with a pneumatic -_whoosh_ and Robie glided onto Times Square. The crowd that had been -watching the fifty-foot-tall girl on the clothing billboard get -dressed, or reading the latest news about the Hot Truce scrawl itself -in yard-high script, hurried to look. - -Robie was still a novelty. Robie was fun. For a little while yet, he -could steal the show. But the attention did not make Robie proud. He -had no more emotions than the pink plastic giantess, who dressed and -undressed endlessly whether there was a crowd or the street was empty, -and who never once blinked her blue mechanical eyes. But she merely -drew business while Robie went out after it. - -For Robie was the logical conclusion of the development of vending -machines. All the earlier ones had stood in one place, on a floor or -hanging on a wall, and blankly delivered merchandise in return for -coins, whereas Robie searched for customers. He was the demonstration -model of a line of sales robots to be manufactured by Shuler Vending -Machines, provided the public invested enough in stocks to give the -company capital to go into mass production. - -The publicity Robie drew stimulated investments handsomely. It was -amusing to see the TV and newspaper coverage of Robie selling, but not -a fraction as much fun as being approached personally by him. Those -who were usually bought anywhere from one to five hundred shares, if -they had any money and foresight enough to see that sales robots would -eventually be on every street and highway in the country. - - * * * * * - -Robie radared the crowd, found that it surrounded him solidly, and -stopped. With a carefully built-in sense of timing, he waited for the -tension and expectation to mount before he began talking. - -"Say, Ma, he doesn't look like a robot at all," a child said. "He looks -like a turtle." - -Which was not completely inaccurate. The lower part of Robie's body was -a metal hemisphere hemmed with sponge rubber and not quite touching the -sidewalk. The upper was a metal box with black holes in it. The box -could swivel and duck. - -A chromium-bright hoopskirt with a turret on top. - -"Reminds me too much of the Little Joe Paratanks," a legless veteran -of the Persian War muttered, and rapidly rolled himself away on wheels -rather like Robie's. - -His departure made it easier for some of those who knew about Robie to -open a path in the crowd. Robie headed straight for the gap. The crowd -whooped. - -Robie glided very slowly down the path, deftly jogging aside whenever -he got too close to ankles in skylon or sockassins. The rubber buffer -on his hoopskirt was merely an added safeguard. - -The boy who had called Robie a turtle jumped in the middle of the path -and stood his ground, grinning foxily. - -Robie stopped two feet short of him. The turret ducked. The crowd got -quiet. - -"Hello, youngster," Robie said in a voice that was smooth as that of a -TV star, and was, in fact, a recording of one. - -The boy stopped smiling. "Hello," he whispered. - -"How old are you?" Robie asked. - -"Nine. No, eight." - -"That's nice," Robie observed. A metal arm shot down from his neck, -stopped just short of the boy. - -The boy jerked back. - -"For you," Robie said. - -The boy gingerly took the red polly-lop from the neatly fashioned blunt -metal claws, and began to unwrap it. - -"Nothing to say?" asked Robie. - -"Uh--thank you." - -After a suitable pause, Robie continued. "And how about a nice -refreshing drink of Poppy Pop to go with your polly-lop?" The boy -lifted his eyes, but didn't stop licking the candy. Robie waggled his -claws slightly. "Just give me a quarter and within five seconds--" - -A little girl wriggled out of the forest of legs. "Give me a polly-lop, -too, Robie," she demanded. - -"Rita, come back here!" a woman in the third rank of the crowd called -angrily. - -Robie scanned the newcomer gravely. His reference silhouettes were not -good enough to let him distinguish the sex of children, so he merely -repeated, "Hello, youngster." - -"Rita!" - -"Give me a polly-lop!" - -Disregarding both remarks, for a good salesman is single-minded and -does not waste bait, Robie said winningly, "I'll bet you read _Junior -Space Killers_. Now I have here--" - -"Uh-uh, I'm a girl. _He_ got a polly-lop." - - * * * * * - -At the word "girl," Robie broke off. Rather ponderously, he said, "I'll -bet you read _Gee-Gee Jones, Space Stripper_. Now I have here the -latest issue of that thrilling comic, not yet in the stationary vending -machines. Just give me fifty cents and within five--" - -"Please let me through. I'm her mother." - -A young woman in the front rank drawled over her powder-sprayed -shoulder, "I'll get her for you," and slithered out on six-inch -platform shoes. "Run away, children," she said nonchalantly. Lifting -her arms behind her head, she pirouetted slowly before Robie to show -how much she did for her bolero half-jacket and her form-fitting slacks -that melted into skylon just above the knees. The little girl glared at -her. She ended the pirouette in profile. - -At this age-level, Robie's reference silhouettes permitted him to -distinguish sex, though with occasional amusing and embarrassing -miscalls. He whistled admiringly. The crowd cheered. - -Someone remarked critically to a friend, "It would go over better if he -was built more like a real robot. You know, like a man." - -The friend shook his head. "This way it's subtler." - -No one in the crowd was watching the newscript overhead as it -scribbled, "Ice Pack for Hot Truce? Vanadin hints Russ may yield on -Pakistan." - -Robie was saying, "... in the savage new glamor-tint we have christened -Mars Blood, complete with spray applicator and fit-all fingerstalls -that mask each finger completely except for the nail. Just give me five -dollars--uncrumpled bills may be fed into the revolving rollers you see -beside my arm--and within five seconds--" - -"No, thanks, Robie," the young woman yawned. - -"Remember," Robie persisted, "for three more weeks, seductivizing Mars -Blood will be unobtainable from any other robot or human vendor." - -"No, thanks." - -Robie scanned the crowd resourcefully. "Is there any gentleman -here ..." he began just as a woman elbowed her way through the front -rank. - -"I told you to come back!" she snapped at the little girl. - -"But I didn't get my polly-lop!" - -"... who would care to...." - -"Rita!" - -"Robie cheated. Ow!" - - * * * * * - -Meanwhile, the young woman in the half bolero had scanned the nearby -gentlemen on her own. Deciding that there was less than a fifty per -cent chance of any of them accepting the proposition Robie seemed about -to make, she took advantage of the scuffle to slither gracefully back -into the ranks. Once again the path was clear before Robie. - -He paused, however, for a brief recapitulation of the more magical -properties of Mars Blood, including a telling phrase about "the -passionate claws of a Martian sunrise." - -But no one bought. It wasn't quite time. Soon enough silver coins would -be clinking, bills going through the rollers faster than laundry, and -five hundred people struggling for the privilege of having their money -taken away from them by America's first mobile sales robot. - -But there were still some tricks that Robie had to do free, and one -certainly should enjoy those before starting the more expensive fun. - -So Robie moved on until he reached the curb. The variation in level was -instantly sensed by his under-scanners. He stopped. His head began to -swivel. The crowd watched in eager silence. This was Robie's best trick. - -Robie's head stopped swiveling. His scanners had found the traffic -light. It was green. Robie edged forward. But then the light turned -red. Robie stopped again, still on the curb. The crowd softly _ahhed_ -its delight. - -It was wonderful to be alive and watching Robie on such an exciting -day. Alive and amused in the fresh, weather-controlled air between the -lines of bright skyscrapers with their winking windows and under a sky -so blue you could almost call it dark. - -(But way, way up, where the crowd could not see, the sky was darker -still. Purple-dark, with stars showing. And in that purple-dark, a -silver-green something, the color of a bud, plunged down at better than -three miles a second. The silver-green was a newly developed paint that -foiled radar.) - -Robie was saying, "While we wait for the light, there's time for -you youngsters to enjoy a nice refreshing Poppy Pop. Or for you -adults--only those over five feet tall are eligible to buy--to enjoy -an exciting Poppy Pop fizz. Just give me a quarter or--in the case of -adults, one dollar and a quarter; I'm licensed to dispense intoxicating -liquors--and within five seconds...." - -But that was not cutting it quite fine enough. Just three seconds -later, the silver-green bud bloomed above Manhattan into a globular -orange flower. The skyscrapers grew brighter and brighter still, the -brightness of the inside of the Sun. The windows winked blossoming -white fire-flowers. - -The crowd around Robie bloomed, too. Their clothes puffed into petals -of flame. Their heads of hair were torches. - - * * * * * - -The orange flower grew, stem and blossom. The blast came. The winking -windows shattered tier by tier, became black holes. The walls bent, -rocked, cracked. A stony dandruff flaked from their cornices. The -flaming flowers on the sidewalk were all leveled at once. Robie was -shoved ten feet. His metal hoopskirt dimpled, regained its shape. - -The blast ended. The orange flower, grown vast, vanished overhead -on its huge, magic beanstalk. It grew dark and very still. The -cornice-dandruff pattered down. A few small fragments rebounded from -the metal hoopskirt. - -Robie made some small, uncertain movements, as if feeling for broken -bones. He was hunting for the traffic light, but it no longer shone -either red or green. - -He slowly scanned a full circle. There was nothing anywhere to -interest his reference silhouettes. Yet whenever he tried to move, his -under-scanners warned him of low obstructions. It was very puzzling. - -The silence was disturbed by moans and a crackling sound, as faint at -first as the scampering of distant rats. - -A seared man, his charred clothes fuming where the blast had blown out -the fire, rose from the curb. Robie scanned him. - -"Good day, sir," Robie said. "Would you care for a smoke? A truly cool -smoke? Now I have here a yet-unmarketed brand...." - -But the customer had run away, screaming, and Robie never ran after -customers, though he could follow them at a medium brisk roll. He -worked his way along the curb where the man had sprawled, carefully -keeping his distance from the low obstructions, some of which writhed -now and then, forcing him to jog. Shortly he reached a fire hydrant. -He scanned it. His electronic vision, though it still worked, had been -somewhat blurred by the blast. - -"Hello, youngster," Robie said. Then, after a long pause, "Cat got your -tongue? Well, I have a little present for you. A nice, lovely polly-lop. - -"Take it, youngster," he said after another pause. "It's for you. Don't -be afraid." - -His attention was distracted by other customers, who began to rise -up oddly here and there, twisting forms that confused his reference -silhouettes and would not stay to be scanned properly. One cried, -"Water," but no quarter clinked in Robie's claws when he caught the -word and suggested, "How about a nice refreshing drink of Poppy Pop?" - -The rat-crackling of the flames had become a jungle muttering. The -blind windows began to wink fire again. - - * * * * * - -A little girl marched, stepping neatly over arms and legs she did -not look at. A white dress and the once taller bodies around her had -shielded her from the brilliance and the blast. Her eyes were fixed on -Robie. In them was the same imperious confidence, though none of the -delight, with which she had watched him earlier. - -"Help me, Robie," she said. "I want my mother." - -"Hello, youngster," Robie said. "What would you like? Comics? Candy?" - -"Where is she, Robie? Take me to her." - -"Balloons? Would you like to watch me blow up a balloon?" - -The little girl began to cry. The sound triggered off another of -Robie's novelty circuits, a service feature that had brought in a lot -of favorable publicity. - -"Is something wrong?" he asked. "Are you in trouble? Are you lost?" - -"Yes, Robie. Take me to my mother." - -"Stay right here," Robie said reassuringly, "and don't be frightened. -I will call a policeman." He whistled shrilly, twice. - -Time passed. Robie whistled again. The windows flared and roared. The -little girl begged, "Take me away, Robie," and jumped onto a little -step in his hoopskirt. - -"Give me a dime," Robie said. - -The little girl found one in her pocket and put it in his claws. - -"Your weight," Robie said, "is fifty-four and one-half pounds." - -"Have you seen my daughter, have you seen her?" a woman was -crying somewhere. "I left her watching that thing while I stepped -inside--_Rita!_" - -"Robie helped me," the little girl began babbling at her. "He knew I -was lost. He even called the police, but they didn't come. He weighed -me, too. Didn't you, Robie?" - -But Robie had gone off to peddle Poppy Pop to the members of a rescue -squad which had just come around the corner, more robotlike in their -asbestos suits than he in his metal skin. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Bad Day for Sales, by Fritz Leiber - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BAD DAY FOR SALES *** - -***** This file should be named 50819.txt or 50819.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/8/1/50819/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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