"Don't you think it's high time we hired some help around this place?" Mogey inquired.
"What, like a live-in plumber?" Smush suggested.
"I was thinking about something more like this," Mogey said, holding up a glossy brochure titled Cuisine Machine 4.0.
"The lunch-cooking robot?" Smush scoffed. "No way... trust me. I've looked at all of 'em: Cuisine Machine 4.0, the Automatoton, even the Flandroid 5000. I crunched the numbers, and it'll never work."
"Now I know it's a big investment, but I think the Cuisine Machine 4.0 will pay for itself in a mere twenty to thirty years."
"No, no, no, I'm not talking about the dollars and cents," Smush clarified. "I mean I crunched the numbers on whether the Cuisine Machine can actually keep up!" He snatched the brochure from Mogey's hands and pointed to the fine print. "See here: the Cuisine Machine 4.0 requires refueling every 50 ham sandwiches, and a full oil change every 200 ducks a l'orange. We'll be so busy managing his fluids every day that we'll end up eating even less than we do now!"
"I suppose you're right," Mogey admitted, looking sadly at the Cuisine Machine's half dozen fully-articulating arms and shiny ceramic chef's hat. "Perhaps by Cuisine Machine 5.0 he'll be able to l'orange those ducks at a rate that makes sense for our lifestyle."
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