Lorne Kates

Feb 2010

Bessy Keeps You Safe

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For some reason, Violet K. couldn't show her sex video to the class.

Though the YouTube-posted "Mammalian Reproduction Systems" had loaded for last period's grade 10 biology class, all that came up now was an all-too-familiar screen:


Passed Around

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Photo Credit: pheezy @ flickr The rejection had taken three months to arrive, and now somebody, somewhere, owed Luis K an explanation.

Why had a required feature been rejected? He couldn't tell from the cryptic jumble of control codes and received/forwarded stamps that overflowed the "office use only" box. The internal trouble-ticket system just showed "handled externally".