The Little Black Book

He liked the idea of space.
The final frontier.
Smoking stars on Saturn's rings.
Yeah, that would do it.
The five o’clock rush was a b***h.
The eight a.m. rush was a double b***h.
B***h, b***h, b***h.
People on phones.
Wanting to know how their shares were performing.
The wife trying on outfits.
That’s a performance.
Your shares, Titanic comes to mind.
Yes sir, your shares are performing just as i told you they would.
They’re somewhere in between my lies, and my imagination.
They say we’ll be driving driverless cars soon.
The five o’clock rush is now down to just a b***h.
The eight a.m. b***h, b***h.
Two driverless cars were caught at a strange hotel.
The court ruling found in favour of the drivers, Mr X, and Mrs X.
Blaming software problems.
The judge put that into his little black book.
Yes sir, not only would i put my life savings into that company, i would remortgage my house.
Nice little island in the sun, no phones.
The crash was blamed on driverless cars.
No one at the helm.
The judge was having none of it.
Subpoenas were flying in all directions.
Mr and Mrs X had fled the country.
It was all in the little black book.

Reviews

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

"The Little Black Book" of horrors here! Rat-Race supreme..."B***h, b***h"- yup that's about the way it goes 8am to 4-Ever...stocks tanked...driverless cars crash...Is anybody out there???

[Paul Bell]

We're all out to lunch, permanently. lol

[Marina]

I can feel the irony for when he'll be traveling to Saturn on an automatic rocket ship.
Sometimes I feel lucky I don't have a 8 to 5 job. Other times, I feel like I'm left behind while the rest of my circle complains about it. lol

[Paul Bell]

Complaining about the old nine till five. What is wrong with people. You can complain not doing nine till five. That must be worth five b*****s. lol

[Marina]

hahaha I will definitely give it a try, but something tells me that I might end up dead from a driverless car.
Hint: most greeks behind the wheel equal to driverless cars

[Paul Bell]

Killed by a robot car. What an epitaph.
Killed by a Greek driver. Does that sound the same.

[Marina]

It sounds like it came out from a B-cut movie that never made it into production. lol

[Paul Bell]

Stop digressing Marina. Get something up. lol

[Marina]

You know me too well.

[Lydia Shutter]

LOVE this....driverless cars taking Mr. and Mrs. Jones to the No Tell Motel. Paul, your description of the workaday world is spot on. Great work. Lydi**

[Paul Bell]

Must be the same the world over now.

[emmajoy]

'Yes sir, your shares are performing just as i told you they would. ~ ~ They’re somewhere in between my lies, and my imagination.'

Seems Man is taken to count for everything merely.. perhaps, who knows, maybe.. because he's not in charge any more. Past plans made have gone to the wall. Techno and all has taken its heartless over ever-heating brain to extremes never imagined. Bit like the first arrow, the first tank, the first world war.. worse and worse and so forth.

You raise a question, perhaps smiling a little but surely, at the end of that questions is a ginormous great pair of sightless eyes.

[Paul Bell]

Yeah you don't need to rob banks anymore. Couple of clicks on the button. Full bank account. Cyber attacks are the new age war now. How we've progressed.

[emmajoy]

They are and - we're at the point of a gun. So let's barter!

[Paul Bell]

America, China, Russia. We may need to barter on their behalf.

[emmajoy]

Did you say batter? Seems they need their heads seeing to - whilst they still have them.

[Paul Bell]

Big heads, big ego's.

[The Iron Horseman]

That's one that gives me the screaming horrors - driverless cars! Death by software error! AArgh! And don't get me started on air traffic control systems or auto-pilots.

[Paul Bell]

Robots will be running the world soon. You see it everyday now.

[The Iron Horseman]

Have you seen that video of the Mercedes production line? Not a human in sight!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

sometimes i want to flee...to somewhere stripped of all the technology that is running us into the ground as humans...
someone has to be at the helm...has to be.

[Paul Bell]

We're definitely becoming a redundant species.