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If I were a single parent I would want to drink all day and night.  I know I couldn’t because of safety and whatnot but I would still want to because single parents never have time for themselves.  Even doing simple stuff like bringing in the groceries is hard if the kids are very young.  I know I could make a fortune if I could build a robot that could help the parent and the kids.  The robot could lift heavy things and bring in stuff from the car and it could also do some home repairs.  It could entertain the kids too and play board games and sing songs.  I suppose a parent would be nervous about leaving their kids alone with the robot but it could still be a big help without being a babysitter.  It would have to look really friendly though or kids would find it scary.  Kids like stuffed toy animals but a huge stuffed animal would be creepy.  Even a huge animal that looked real, like a black bear, might scare kids even though it could do some good solid work on any burglars with its metal claws.  I think all kids like clocks though, so I would make a robot clock and then they would always love time.  I would call it Clocko because everybody would find Clocko to be a good and helpful friend.

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I thought it was a long tale but the ending came sooner than I expected

Clocks don’t do as much as they could, especially grandfather clocks. Nowadays people don’t think much about clocks but a long time ago people thought they were magic because they could measure time. I heard a guy say that time was like water pouring out of a faucet but I think it’s more like chunky gumbo because some parts are thicker than others. Anyway, clocks have hands and faces because people thought they were small gods. Now that the clockworks are simple they would fill the grandfather clock case with other stuff, like an electronic brain and eyes, and they could attach arms and legs. I’m thinking we could let prisoners on death row free and save a lot of money on prisons because each one would be followed by a walking grandfather clock with long arms that would watch over them and count their time down. No matter where they went or what they did that clock would follow them and keep ticking away. When their appeals were done the judge could push a button and the clock would come right after them with its long arms and then play a special song after it finished them off. It would backfire though because some people might get on death row just for the thrill of being followed around and hearing that clock tick.