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The new and improved story thread, ho boy!

Alright, so this board has already seen a lot of story threads, but as time passed on, the stories which they fathered all deteriorated in quality, and the original idea (creating a STORY, not just a string of random words) got buried. Hence I'm proposing the solution of introducing two simple rules:

Every participant writes a whole sentence, which must follow continuity of the presented plot, and ...
Discussion and even the alteration of previous entries is encouraged!

tl;dr: Everybody takes turns to write a complete sentence. But make your part count in the context of the story, don't just spew random words.

Jerry had to run errands for his sickly aunt. The first task on his list was to pick up the goods already packed for him at the grocery store.

[The themes of this story will be:
1. A clash of new and old mindsets towards technology in society
2. The necessary rationalisation of daily life due to the strict ways in which computers interpret signals and actions
3. Technological change in general, in the near-future]
Jerry had to run errands for his sickly aunt. The first task on his list was to pick up the goods already packed for him at the grocery store. So, he used Uber to get a ride downtown.
Jerry had to run errands for his sickly aunt. The first task was to pick up the goods already packed for him at the grocery store. So he used Uber to get a ride downtown. Little did he know that the Uber was shutdown due to chemical leaks.
Jerry had to run errands for his sickly aunt. The first task was to pick up the goods already packed for him at the grocery store. So he used Uber to get a ride downtown. Traffic was getting increasingly worse over the afternoon, and Jerry kept wondering what the cause could be for his cozy hometown to be overflown with visitors like this.

(As you can see, I erased TheIceManV's last post. Why? I didn't like it. And it makes no sense that it was shut down when the previous sentence states that he used it ... Everyone has the right to do that, for the sake of quality of the text.)
Jerry had to run errands for his sickly aunt. The first task was to pick up the goods already packed for him at the grocery store. So he used Uber to get a ride downtown. Traffic was getting increasingly worse over the afternoon, and Jerry kept wondering what the cause could be for his cozy hometown to be overflown with visitors like this.

"I should just buy my own car", Jerry mused.
Jerry had to run errands for his sickly aunt. The first task was to pick up the goods already packed for him at the grocery store. So he used Uber to get a ride downtown. Traffic was getting increasingly worse over the afternoon, and Jerry kept wondering what the cause could be for his cozy hometown to be overflown with visitors like this.

"All these people...I wonder why they're in town." thought Jerry.
Jerry had to run errands for his sickly aunt. The first task was to pick up the goods already packed for him at the grocery store. So he used Uber to get a ride downtown. Traffic was getting increasingly worse over the afternoon, and Jerry kept wondering what the cause could be for his cozy hometown to be overflown with visitors like this.

"All these people...I wonder why they're in town." thought Jerry. On the pavement, the streets, they were all teeming with exotic looking folk!
____ Jerry had to run errands for his sickly aunt. The first task was to pick up the goods already packed for him at the grocery store. So he used Uber to get a ride downtown. Traffic was getting increasingly worse over the afternoon, and Jerry kept wondering what the cause could be for his cozy hometown to be overflowing with visitors.
____ "All these people...I wonder why they're in town." thought Jerry. Jerry was unaware that there was a covert convention of hackers in the area....

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