Lifetime Guarantee

[donutsweeper]

Title: Lifetime Guarantee
Pairing/Warning/Rating: none, rated G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Jack gets a new wrist computer.

The strap on his wrist computer finally gave out somewhere around its seventh century.  Since some of the mechanisms still worked he had a case constructed so he could carry it around in his pocket.  Two thousand years later, when every circuit had fried, he relegated it to a spot on the mantelpiece.

Eventually, in the 51st Century again, he bought himself a new one.  Even though it was the same make and model as his first, he found it terribly uncomfortable to wear. He had no idea why; it was the same and he was the same, wasn’t he?



Author's Note: There is an accompanying meta piece about the writing of this drabble here. 

Comments

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Thanks for those - expect comments later when I still can't settle... I have seen you mention The Old Man *G*

In my mind it was on the forehead
Which didn't even occur to me despite the fact I use forehead touching quite a bit - I blame Star Trek: Next Generation and Teyla!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

(Old Man's become the bane of my existence, I never should have continued in the verse *sigh*)

Which didn't even occur to me that's why I love writing, unlike film/tv the reader is left to fill in all the details and usually they create a picture in their own mind that is more detailed and works better for them than I could ever hope to