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. I don't have anything else."
"Regrettable. Would you be so kind as to consult your competitors and find
me a-"
"Senator, there is not a unit left for rent anywhere in Golden Rule. Morris
Garage, Lockheed-Volkswagen, Hertz, Interplan-et-we've all been querying each
other the past hour. No soap. No go. No units."
It was time to be philosophical. "In that case I had better drive a Volvo,
hadn't I, son?"
The Senator again got just a touch cranky when required to pony up full
list price on what was clearly a much-used car- I complained about dirty
ashtrays and demanded that they be vacuumed out... then I said not to bother
(when the terminal behind Dockweiler's head stopped talking about Ames and
Novak) and said, "Let's check me mass and available delta vee; I want to lift."
For a mass reading Budget Jets does not use a centrifuge but the newer,
faster, cheaper, much more convenient, elastic inertiometer-I just wonder if it
is as accurate. Dockweiler had us all get into the net at once (all but the
bonsai, which he shook and wrote down as two kilos-near enough, maybe), asked us
to hug each other with the Macy's package held firmly amongst us three, then
pulled the trigger on the elastic support-shook our teeth out, almost; then he
announced that our total mass for lift was 213.6 kilos.
A few minutes later we were strapping to the cushions and Dockweiler was
sealing the nose and then the inner door of the nest
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