I got something from Amazon the other day. When you track your package there, it shows you where it is on a map and how many delivery stops away the driver is. This reminded me of when I was a child and on Christmas Eve the local TV news would show Santa Claus's route. The broadcaster doing this was usually the weather guy (they were always men back then, the early 1960s) and he'd act very serious about it. Serious, that is, to a five-year-old.
Later the same day that I thought this my mood shifted and the tracking took on a more sinister view. I thought of it as an approaching disaster. An inescapable lava flow. A killer robot heading my way. A tsunami, a flood, a storm. Death.
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