An office in the not too distant future.
An ageless and timeless copier scenario plays out a few years in the future!
Hopefully you'll enjoy.
Mary and Bob had been celebrating the Holiday Season with a few too many drinks at their company party in Boston. Bob thought of getting a color image of himself and Mary on the new 3D printer/scanner and emailing it to himself so he could have the image of a lifetime! Thus with Boones Farm wine in each hand, both Bob and Mary swayed arm and arm over to the Genesis 3995.Bob had been fascinated with the Genesis 3995 since the new system was delivered a few weeks ago. Bob you see is an aficionado of 3D printing, a few years back he had purchased a 3D printer at a trade show in Boston.
What really fascinated Bob about the Genesis 3995 is that the new system was capable of 3D scanning! Woohoo for me he thought, now I can scan anything in the office & reproduce it at home! Yea, if you're thinking Bob is a little of his rocker, I'm thinking the same.
Now that they were swaying arm and arm in front of the Genesis 3995, Bob being the ever so weird office worked raised the lid of the 3D scanner for Mary. Mary being on the petite size was no problemfor Bob to lift her onto the Genesis 3995, however Bob (they all called him BIG Weird BOB aka BWB) had a much harder time saddling up on the system. Bob keyed in the email addresses, with an outstretched finger he managed to press the 3D scan key for the Genesis 3993. A flashing strobe green & red strobe light, a few whines of the imaging laser and just as the 3D scanner finished the Plexiglass (oh, let me explain, glass was not an option as a platen anymore since the system is capable of 3D scanning objects, manufacturers had to make an adjustment for extra weight of objects that would be scanned, also scanner area was increased from 11x18 to 22x36 for those oversized objects) caved in on the Genesis 3995 and both Mary and Bob fell into the printer butts first!
They both struggled to get themselves out, however with Bob's feet in the air and Mary’s foot in the paper bank, yeah.....they were down real deep! There was not much they could do to remove themselves from the Genesis 3995 system.
After a few minutes of struggling, Bob the always-thinking BWB realized that he could access the "TECH STAR” key. The "TECH STAR” was developed a few years ago by Genesis Corp. and was basically "copied” from the GM support called "ON STAR". Bob stretched out his arm as far as he could, all he had to do was just overstretch his index finger a little more and he would be able to "tap" the "TECH STAR" key, and he got it !
Bob knew that in a few moments they would have the help of "TECH STAR" to get them out of this. As they waited for the connection Bob, managed to shift his frame a little to the left thus allowing Mary to remove her foot from his from the paper tray. A few tweedles and a beep and they were connected to "TECH STAR"! A picture and voice was displayed on the 3D printers large TV like LCD Display. In an accent unknown to Bob and Mary. The "Tech Star" representative announced his presence."Teke Starrr" des iz Rajat, call me Rick, hough I hep youz? After hearing the voice Bob aka BWB had realized that he was in deep dodo. Bob was able to eek out to Rajat/Rick that he and Mary were stuck in the Genesis 3995 and that they were in risk of getting electrocuted! HELP!
Now as much as Bob had a hard time understanding Rajat, Rajat also was not that familiar with Bob's heavy Bostonian accent and euphemisms. Rajat thought he heard Bob say he was stuck making a 3D print of an electrician’s tool. Rajat as the ever-courteous support person was trying to convey how to access the 3D print head and adjust the partial space limiter...... Bob aka BWB being very knowledgeable about the Genesis 3995 knew he was not getting the proper help he needed, heck he could hardly understand what the "TECH STAR" rep was saying.
HE NEEDED HELP! For a moment he reminisced about his first day at the office and his first HR meeting that focused on “The office dos and don'ts and this was definitely a DON'T!! Almost fifteen minutes had passed since Rajat had answered his "Tech Star" request. Mary's hair weave was now caught in the scanner and as she was struggled to moved both her and Bob were falling deeper and deeper in to the abyss of the Genesis 3995.
Bob knew his only recourse was to try and rock the Genesis 3995 off its feet if he was to save him and Mary from being caught. So as Bob aka BWB struggled to move his frame left to right, back and forth, left to right and back to forth. He was getting there, the Genesis 3995 was rockin and really working it. As the Genesis 3995 was violently rocking back and forth and side to side. Did we forget about Rajat, he could hear the Genesis 3995 be shaken apart; his computer sensors told him that there was a seismic event happening at Genesis 3995. Rajat thought quickly, called his superior and they then placed a call to 911 in the US.
Some time later, the Genesis 3395 was on its side. Both Bob and Mary had been removed mangled plastic at the scene, the 911 call had alerted rescue to the terrible Holiday nightmare. Both Bob & Mary never got their 3D image of themselves, but they did get the opportunity to find new employment,
-=Good Selling=-
Yeah, I know it's weird but I had fun writing it!
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lease explain how you accomplished the scan to email with the macs.ThanxArt
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