Episode #10 Demonstration Day 2/2

Demonstration Day
By: Ian Creasey
Part 2

I let the rush subside and followed at my own pace, taking up a seat near
the back and listening to the excited buzz of the scientists as they
contemplated Calverley's apparatus.  I recognised the high-spec generator
I'd sold him, but I knew nothing about the case, or the silver cube with a
door in the front and a control panel on the side.  This looked very like a
large microwave oven, and provoked a shout of, "I'll have a jacket potato
please," from the audience.



Vanzetti called for order.  "Gentlemen.  Thank you all for attending this
year's convention.  The Association has a proud tradition of demonstrating
the practical applications of the latest scientific advances...."  The
speech is so familiar I swear I can hear tape hiss, and so few people bother
to listen that he could announce discovery of the Final Theory without
raising a flicker.  It just gives the waiting scientist time to worry about
everything that could possibly go wrong with his demonstration.

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