On the occasion of their wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Jones invited me for dinner to make merry. I can’t pinpoint how but this supper would be a remembered one to me. It was an unexceptional supper anyone would take with his neighbor. Home made food, extra- clean house and a happy family, a family with three sons. Yes, three sons whose versatile careers made me go out of the ordinary. As soon as I was seated myself on the dining table, I just saw them and gave them a smile, but to my astonishment, none of them reacted. This gave me a feeling as if I am seated in front of three Robots, three emotionless Robots. Then Mr. Jones introduced me to his three sons, none other than , the three emotionless robots. Just to respond, I quizzed Mr. Jones about his sons’ careers.Now the thing that I am still unable to decipher is that, the moment he told me about their vocations, my mind hassled up with an idea, totally motivated by those stiff actions of three, that was completely bizarre. The first son was introduced as one of the Oakland Plumbers !Seeing him gave me an instant thought that his work was not to mend leaking taps but to collate and set the flow of dumb thoughts jutting out of the head, as if the molecules of H2O, I mean the molecules of water and send them back into the head so that they don’t flow like liquid. His second son, an Oakland Electricians , looked so still and expressionless that it gave me a sensation as if he is the culprit who has spoiled the wiring of minds of his two brothers with his different tools such as conduit benders, pliers, wire strippers, drills, ohmmeters, voltmeters, oscilloscopes. An illustration developed in my mind the way he must have opened brain, wired it and then plugged it again. Whoa! Then comes the last but not least, his youngest son, one of those most popular Oakland Roofers who show miracles through their work. But then I thought, how could this emotionless robot make those eye catchy scriptures on top of the roof. To me it seemed as if he could only fix the roof of brains and make them silent to the emotions and all, like his. Probably, it’s the emotion that makes the machine being titled as HUMANS….

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