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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: The Used People Lot - -Author: Irving Fang - -Release Date: October 21, 2019 [EBook #60545] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE USED PEOPLE LOT *** - - - - -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="350" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>The Used People Lot</h1> - -<h2>BY IRVING FANG</h2> - -<p class="ph1"><i>Faint car never won fair lady!...<br /> -Make</i> your <i>car proud of you!...<br /> -Grinning Gregory helps used people!</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1958.<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>It's had it. Finished. Done. My wonderful red Thunderflash, I thought -to myself, isn't worth the electricity to atomize it to Kingdom Come.</p> - -<p>Ever since that drunk in his two-seat Charioteer plowed into the rear -end with such force that even my radar repellant couldn't stop it, -my Thunderflash had been out of kilter. The specialists my garage -recommended worked over it for two days, but couldn't get it to -running the way it did new.</p> - -<p>And what was I supposed to do for an automobile now? I had signed the -customary 40-year pact for half my salary to pay for it. That meant I -would still be shelling out by 2117.</p> - -<p>Weeping over it wasn't going to do any good. It was stuck on the fifth -level expressway and that was that. I levered myself out (at least -the ejector still worked) then got behind the car and gave it a good -old-fashioned push to get it on an off-ramp, out of the stream of -traffic.</p> - -<p>After I parked I remembered I was heading for a date with Jenny. I -checked my wallet. No, not enough for a taxi there. I would just have -to phone her to cancel the date.</p> - -<p>Reluctantly I pushed the tip of my tongue against my tooth telephone.</p> - -<p>"Operator," said the operator.</p> - -<p>"Poplar 3104, please."</p> - -<p>"Thank you. One moment. I'll ache it for you."</p> - -<p>She dialed the number of the tooth telephone in Jenny's mouth, so the -two fine wires sent gentle electric currents into the nerve. On the -third ache Jenny clicked the receiver open with the tip of her tongue.</p> - -<p>"Hello?"</p> - -<p>"Jenny, this is Arnold. I won't be able to come over this evening."</p> - -<p>"But we had a date," Jenny said in a petulant voice.</p> - -<p>"I know, but my car broke down."</p> - -<p>"Again?"</p> - -<p>"Yes, honey."</p> - -<p>"Why don't you do something about it?" Jenny complained.</p> - -<p>"But baby, what can I do? I've been to the garage. I've been to the -specialists. I'm so broke on account of these repair bills I've been -living on macaroni concentrate for the last couple of weeks."</p> - -<p>Jenny, my beautiful sweetheart, was distinctly unhappy. "Don't come to -me with your troubles," she replied. "In fact, you don't have to come -to me at all until you can come like a gentleman."</p> - -<p>"Aw, listen just a minute, Jenny," I started to plead. But it was too -late. Jenny had clicked off.</p> - -<p>A fine thermokettle of fish! A month ago I had a shiny lifetime car and -was romancing the best looking girl in town. Then one drunk comes along -and my car is next to useless and my girl is mad at me.</p> - -<p>Feeling in a distinctly blue mood I moved my tongue to the other side -of my mouth and shoved on my tooth radio. I rolled the tongue over the -bottom of the tooth until I got a program with some blues music. Just -the way I felt. The blues. I sat in the front seat of my Thunderflash -and listened to the music echoing against my tonsils.</p> - -<p>After the song came the inevitable commercial. Only this was a new one. -The announcer said:</p> - -<p>"Here's some big, big, big news from Grinning Gregory, your largest -volume dealer in lifetime cars. Gregory announced today that his used -people lots are nearly empty. Yes, Grinning Gregory's used people lots -are nearly empty. And that means good, good, good news for you car -owners with lifetime contracts who would like new cars.</p> - -<p>"Grinning Gregory has added to his stocks of new Orions, -Thunderflashes, Galaxies, Solars, Charioteers, Protons and Fords. For -the first time in two years, yes, the first time in two years, he has -more new cars than new people to sell them to.</p> - -<p>"So he is offering a limited number of them to used people, you folks -who have had cars, on his conveniently located used people lots. Come -on down and let some of Grinning Gregory's new cars look you over. -Be sure and bring photostats of your credit ratings and official car -histories. Hurry, hurry, hurry and avoid the rush to Grinning Gregory's -used people lots."</p> - -<p>The commercial ended and was replaced by music.</p> - -<p>Gosh, that was exciting news. Ever since the accident I had given up -hope of ever owning a decent running car again, automobile prices and -government restrictions being what they were.</p> - -<p>I clicked on my tooth telephone and ached my garage mechanic to come -by and pick up my car. Then I took my credit rating and official car -history from the glove compartment and caught a helibus to the nearest -of Grinning Gregory's used people lots.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A lot of guys were already there before me, most of them in the same -fix I was. They had been in accidents or they were divorced and their -wives got custody of the car, although they still had to pay for it.</p> - -<p>Some of them had been on the lot for some time and looked a little -shopworn under the lights and fluttering pennants, but they hadn't -found a car yet that would take them. We were all classified as used -people, a lot less desirable than people who hadn't signed for cars yet.</p> - -<p>One of Grinning Gregory's contract brokers lined us up in a row facing -the path the cars would come by robot direction. The fellow to my right -slicked his hair down neatly and began shining his shoe-tops on the -backs of his trouser legs.</p> - -<p>"Sure hope I get selected," he whispered nervously to me. "Boy, don't -you sometimes wish you were living a couple of hundred years ago when -cars were cheap enough so that people were doing the picking?"</p> - -<p>"Not me," I told him. "Drive that junk? I'll admit you didn't have to -swear but a couple of years of your life away. But look at all you get -now in a car."</p> - -<p>"Mmm, I suppose you're right," he said. "My Orion was stolen a year ago -when I accidentally cut off the burglar photocell. The police never did -find it and I've been trying ever since to get another one."</p> - -<p>"This is the first time I've tried," I said. "My car...."</p> - -<p>"Ssh," he interrupted. "Here they come."</p> - -<p>A procession of new cars, led by a beautiful green Solar convertible, -inched its way along the row of hopeful buyers, all of us with our -credit ratings and car histories pinned to our lapels.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="650" height="459" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Each car's robot mechanism recorded our statistics, took our pictures, -noted our heights, weights and appearances, then began to correlate the -data.</p> - -<p>By government order the robot mechanism was directed to select its -most promising future owner. A sobersides bank president, for example, -might dearly love to change his big black Galaxy sedan for a low-slung -Charioteer sports car, but sports cars were planned with crew-cutted -college boys in mind, so the bank president would be likely to end up -with another big Galaxy. Of course, the payment rate was fixed and the -contracts were almost always for 40 years. A tie salesman might want a -Galaxy to make an impression on his neighbors, but he'd probably wind -up with a Proton or a Thunderflash like I had. I was a tie salesman.</p> - -<p>The Solar came abreast of me. I stood straight and smiling as it began -to note my statistics. It flashed a 23 when it was done.</p> - -<p>Not so good. That put me in the 23 percentile rank of its desirability. -The next car, a rhinestone Ford, gave me a 28. I was rated 22, 31, 14 -(by a Galaxy), 27, 35 and 30 by the next six cars. That was the way it -went for the whole procession. I received the highest rating, 58, from -an experimental model Proton that was no longer in production, but I -knew it was rating everybody higher and I was pretty gloomy.</p> - -<p>Imagine my surprise when my name was called out as one of the possible -choices. I went into the broker's office and was told the Proton would -select me if I would get rid of all but ten years of my Thunderflash -contract. That meant I had to find someone to take my car and 27 years -of my contract, since I had been paying for three years of the 40. The -price of the Proton, the broker told me, was scaled down to a 30-year -contract because it was an off-model.</p> - -<p>But who would take my heap with a 27-year contract attached to it? The -broker said Grinning Gregory might go for five years, just out of the -goodness of his big, big, big heart. I wouldn't get that kind of a deal -anywhere else, the broker said.</p> - -<p>Maybe I wouldn't, but that didn't do me much good. I needed someone to -take 27 years.</p> - -<p>Harry! Why didn't I think of Harry before? He didn't have a car yet. -Skinflint Harry didn't want to sign the standard 40-year contract for a -car and he had been shopping around for second-hand cars. Besides, good -old Harry knew how crazy I was about Jenny. He had even taken her out a -couple of times.</p> - -<p>I gave Harry an ache on the telephone and told him I'd be right over. -Then I ached the garage and the mechanic told me he could get my -Thunderflash in pretty good running condition again, even though he -couldn't promise anything permanent. I caught a helibus to my friend's -apartment.</p> - -<p>"Harry, old pal, I've got the chance of a lifetime for both of us."</p> - -<p>Harry eyed me suspiciously. "How's that?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"Well, here's the deal. You know my real fine Thunderflash? You said -it was a sharp car. It is. It's a first class car. But ever since that -slight accident, I've had just a wee bit of trouble with it. Not much, -you understand, but it's niggling enough to annoy my girl, Jenny. You -remember Jenny, the girl you used to go with before I cut you out? Ha! -Ha! Anyhow, Jenny wants me to get another car. A newer one."</p> - -<p>"But how can you?" Harry asked. "You already have one."</p> - -<p>"That's just it, old buddy," I replied. "Grinning Gregory has one of -those experimental model Protons. It's a beauty, shimmering orange with -purple wheels and bearskin upholstery. You'd love it. They'll let me -have it on a 30-year contract if I can sell 27 years of my Thunderflash -contract. So here's what I'm going to do for you, pal. I'll keep ten -years of the contract and let you have the Thunderflash for the rest. -You'll be getting a three-year-old car with 13 years of the contract -taken care of. Now is that a deal or is that a deal!"</p> - -<p>Harry wasn't convinced. "What's wrong with your car?"</p> - -<p>"Oh, hardly anything."</p> - -<p>"What's hardly anything?"</p> - -<p>"Not even worth mentioning."</p> - -<p>"What's not worth mentioning?"</p> - -<p>"To tell the truth, the frame is just the least trifle out of line and -every once in a great while it makes the rear wheel twist sideways."</p> - -<p>"I don't know," said Harry.</p> - -<p>"Good old cautious, hard-headed Harry," I told him. "You are getting -the deal of a lifetime and doing a good, loyal friend a big favor -besides."</p> - -<p>"I still don't know, Arnold," said Harry.</p> - -<p>"All right. When will you know?"</p> - -<p>"Let me sleep on it tonight."</p> - -<p>"OK, Harry."</p> - -<p>I went home in high spirits. I knew Harry would come through for me and -take that wreck off my hands. He always was a man with an eye out for a -deal.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I slept late the next morning, but by afternoon I was over to the used -people lot to tell them to hold the Proton for me for another day. -Instead, they tapped me over the head with the news that someone came -in that morning and bought it. And they didn't have another one like it -that would accept me.</p> - -<p>Another hope gone astray! I caught a helibus to the garage and picked -up my Thunderflash after paying a whopping repair bill. I drove to -Jenny's house to convince her it was just as good as new.</p> - -<p>Jenny's mother met me at the door.</p> - -<p>"Hello, Arnold," she said with the big smile of greeting she always -gave me. "I'm glad to see you and I hope you'll keep dropping over to -see me, but Jenny isn't here any more."</p> - -<p>"Not here?"</p> - -<p>"I'm afraid not."</p> - -<p>"Where is she?"</p> - -<p>"She eloped less than an hour ago. You remember the boy she used to -go with, Harry? He came by in a beautiful new car. It was shimmering -orange with purple wheels and bearskin upholstery and...."</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Used People Lot, by Irving Fang - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE USED PEOPLE LOT *** - -***** This file should be named 60545-h.htm or 60545-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/0/5/4/60545/ - -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: The Used People Lot - -Author: Irving Fang - -Release Date: October 21, 2019 [EBook #60545] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE USED PEOPLE LOT *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - The Used People Lot - - BY IRVING FANG - - _Faint car never won fair lady!... - Make_ your _car proud of you!... - Grinning Gregory helps used people!_ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1958. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -It's had it. Finished. Done. My wonderful red Thunderflash, I thought -to myself, isn't worth the electricity to atomize it to Kingdom Come. - -Ever since that drunk in his two-seat Charioteer plowed into the rear -end with such force that even my radar repellant couldn't stop it, -my Thunderflash had been out of kilter. The specialists my garage -recommended worked over it for two days, but couldn't get it to -running the way it did new. - -And what was I supposed to do for an automobile now? I had signed the -customary 40-year pact for half my salary to pay for it. That meant I -would still be shelling out by 2117. - -Weeping over it wasn't going to do any good. It was stuck on the fifth -level expressway and that was that. I levered myself out (at least -the ejector still worked) then got behind the car and gave it a good -old-fashioned push to get it on an off-ramp, out of the stream of -traffic. - -After I parked I remembered I was heading for a date with Jenny. I -checked my wallet. No, not enough for a taxi there. I would just have -to phone her to cancel the date. - -Reluctantly I pushed the tip of my tongue against my tooth telephone. - -"Operator," said the operator. - -"Poplar 3104, please." - -"Thank you. One moment. I'll ache it for you." - -She dialed the number of the tooth telephone in Jenny's mouth, so the -two fine wires sent gentle electric currents into the nerve. On the -third ache Jenny clicked the receiver open with the tip of her tongue. - -"Hello?" - -"Jenny, this is Arnold. I won't be able to come over this evening." - -"But we had a date," Jenny said in a petulant voice. - -"I know, but my car broke down." - -"Again?" - -"Yes, honey." - -"Why don't you do something about it?" Jenny complained. - -"But baby, what can I do? I've been to the garage. I've been to the -specialists. I'm so broke on account of these repair bills I've been -living on macaroni concentrate for the last couple of weeks." - -Jenny, my beautiful sweetheart, was distinctly unhappy. "Don't come to -me with your troubles," she replied. "In fact, you don't have to come -to me at all until you can come like a gentleman." - -"Aw, listen just a minute, Jenny," I started to plead. But it was too -late. Jenny had clicked off. - -A fine thermokettle of fish! A month ago I had a shiny lifetime car and -was romancing the best looking girl in town. Then one drunk comes along -and my car is next to useless and my girl is mad at me. - -Feeling in a distinctly blue mood I moved my tongue to the other side -of my mouth and shoved on my tooth radio. I rolled the tongue over the -bottom of the tooth until I got a program with some blues music. Just -the way I felt. The blues. I sat in the front seat of my Thunderflash -and listened to the music echoing against my tonsils. - -After the song came the inevitable commercial. Only this was a new one. -The announcer said: - -"Here's some big, big, big news from Grinning Gregory, your largest -volume dealer in lifetime cars. Gregory announced today that his used -people lots are nearly empty. Yes, Grinning Gregory's used people lots -are nearly empty. And that means good, good, good news for you car -owners with lifetime contracts who would like new cars. - -"Grinning Gregory has added to his stocks of new Orions, -Thunderflashes, Galaxies, Solars, Charioteers, Protons and Fords. For -the first time in two years, yes, the first time in two years, he has -more new cars than new people to sell them to. - -"So he is offering a limited number of them to used people, you folks -who have had cars, on his conveniently located used people lots. Come -on down and let some of Grinning Gregory's new cars look you over. -Be sure and bring photostats of your credit ratings and official car -histories. Hurry, hurry, hurry and avoid the rush to Grinning Gregory's -used people lots." - -The commercial ended and was replaced by music. - -Gosh, that was exciting news. Ever since the accident I had given up -hope of ever owning a decent running car again, automobile prices and -government restrictions being what they were. - -I clicked on my tooth telephone and ached my garage mechanic to come -by and pick up my car. Then I took my credit rating and official car -history from the glove compartment and caught a helibus to the nearest -of Grinning Gregory's used people lots. - - * * * * * - -A lot of guys were already there before me, most of them in the same -fix I was. They had been in accidents or they were divorced and their -wives got custody of the car, although they still had to pay for it. - -Some of them had been on the lot for some time and looked a little -shopworn under the lights and fluttering pennants, but they hadn't -found a car yet that would take them. We were all classified as used -people, a lot less desirable than people who hadn't signed for cars yet. - -One of Grinning Gregory's contract brokers lined us up in a row facing -the path the cars would come by robot direction. The fellow to my right -slicked his hair down neatly and began shining his shoe-tops on the -backs of his trouser legs. - -"Sure hope I get selected," he whispered nervously to me. "Boy, don't -you sometimes wish you were living a couple of hundred years ago when -cars were cheap enough so that people were doing the picking?" - -"Not me," I told him. "Drive that junk? I'll admit you didn't have to -swear but a couple of years of your life away. But look at all you get -now in a car." - -"Mmm, I suppose you're right," he said. "My Orion was stolen a year ago -when I accidentally cut off the burglar photocell. The police never did -find it and I've been trying ever since to get another one." - -"This is the first time I've tried," I said. "My car...." - -"Ssh," he interrupted. "Here they come." - -A procession of new cars, led by a beautiful green Solar convertible, -inched its way along the row of hopeful buyers, all of us with our -credit ratings and car histories pinned to our lapels. - -Each car's robot mechanism recorded our statistics, took our pictures, -noted our heights, weights and appearances, then began to correlate the -data. - -By government order the robot mechanism was directed to select its -most promising future owner. A sobersides bank president, for example, -might dearly love to change his big black Galaxy sedan for a low-slung -Charioteer sports car, but sports cars were planned with crew-cutted -college boys in mind, so the bank president would be likely to end up -with another big Galaxy. Of course, the payment rate was fixed and the -contracts were almost always for 40 years. A tie salesman might want a -Galaxy to make an impression on his neighbors, but he'd probably wind -up with a Proton or a Thunderflash like I had. I was a tie salesman. - -The Solar came abreast of me. I stood straight and smiling as it began -to note my statistics. It flashed a 23 when it was done. - -Not so good. That put me in the 23 percentile rank of its desirability. -The next car, a rhinestone Ford, gave me a 28. I was rated 22, 31, 14 -(by a Galaxy), 27, 35 and 30 by the next six cars. That was the way it -went for the whole procession. I received the highest rating, 58, from -an experimental model Proton that was no longer in production, but I -knew it was rating everybody higher and I was pretty gloomy. - -Imagine my surprise when my name was called out as one of the possible -choices. I went into the broker's office and was told the Proton would -select me if I would get rid of all but ten years of my Thunderflash -contract. That meant I had to find someone to take my car and 27 years -of my contract, since I had been paying for three years of the 40. The -price of the Proton, the broker told me, was scaled down to a 30-year -contract because it was an off-model. - -But who would take my heap with a 27-year contract attached to it? The -broker said Grinning Gregory might go for five years, just out of the -goodness of his big, big, big heart. I wouldn't get that kind of a deal -anywhere else, the broker said. - -Maybe I wouldn't, but that didn't do me much good. I needed someone to -take 27 years. - -Harry! Why didn't I think of Harry before? He didn't have a car yet. -Skinflint Harry didn't want to sign the standard 40-year contract for a -car and he had been shopping around for second-hand cars. Besides, good -old Harry knew how crazy I was about Jenny. He had even taken her out a -couple of times. - -I gave Harry an ache on the telephone and told him I'd be right over. -Then I ached the garage and the mechanic told me he could get my -Thunderflash in pretty good running condition again, even though he -couldn't promise anything permanent. I caught a helibus to my friend's -apartment. - -"Harry, old pal, I've got the chance of a lifetime for both of us." - -Harry eyed me suspiciously. "How's that?" he asked. - -"Well, here's the deal. You know my real fine Thunderflash? You said -it was a sharp car. It is. It's a first class car. But ever since that -slight accident, I've had just a wee bit of trouble with it. Not much, -you understand, but it's niggling enough to annoy my girl, Jenny. You -remember Jenny, the girl you used to go with before I cut you out? Ha! -Ha! Anyhow, Jenny wants me to get another car. A newer one." - -"But how can you?" Harry asked. "You already have one." - -"That's just it, old buddy," I replied. "Grinning Gregory has one of -those experimental model Protons. It's a beauty, shimmering orange with -purple wheels and bearskin upholstery. You'd love it. They'll let me -have it on a 30-year contract if I can sell 27 years of my Thunderflash -contract. So here's what I'm going to do for you, pal. I'll keep ten -years of the contract and let you have the Thunderflash for the rest. -You'll be getting a three-year-old car with 13 years of the contract -taken care of. Now is that a deal or is that a deal!" - -Harry wasn't convinced. "What's wrong with your car?" - -"Oh, hardly anything." - -"What's hardly anything?" - -"Not even worth mentioning." - -"What's not worth mentioning?" - -"To tell the truth, the frame is just the least trifle out of line and -every once in a great while it makes the rear wheel twist sideways." - -"I don't know," said Harry. - -"Good old cautious, hard-headed Harry," I told him. "You are getting -the deal of a lifetime and doing a good, loyal friend a big favor -besides." - -"I still don't know, Arnold," said Harry. - -"All right. When will you know?" - -"Let me sleep on it tonight." - -"OK, Harry." - -I went home in high spirits. I knew Harry would come through for me and -take that wreck off my hands. He always was a man with an eye out for a -deal. - - * * * * * - -I slept late the next morning, but by afternoon I was over to the used -people lot to tell them to hold the Proton for me for another day. -Instead, they tapped me over the head with the news that someone came -in that morning and bought it. And they didn't have another one like it -that would accept me. - -Another hope gone astray! I caught a helibus to the garage and picked -up my Thunderflash after paying a whopping repair bill. I drove to -Jenny's house to convince her it was just as good as new. - -Jenny's mother met me at the door. - -"Hello, Arnold," she said with the big smile of greeting she always -gave me. "I'm glad to see you and I hope you'll keep dropping over to -see me, but Jenny isn't here any more." - -"Not here?" - -"I'm afraid not." - -"Where is she?" - -"She eloped less than an hour ago. You remember the boy she used to -go with, Harry? He came by in a beautiful new car. 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