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The Strange Keyboard
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The Story
One day two friends discovered a beautiful old car unlocked with a strange keyboard sitting atop its roof.
Alongside was a handwritten note directing its reader to place the keyboard in the car's console then to type.
The car's silver body glistened as they obeyed the instructions, uncertainly typing a command for the engine to start.
Nothing happened.
They tried other words that meant 'start' yet still nothing.
In exasperation the men typed something dull about the weather.
The car stumbled forward.
Stung with surprise, they wrote again and the car continued moving.
Excitedly, one steered the mysterious car while the other typed.
The experiment gathered pace as they tested statements. Sometimes the beautiful vehicle would propel forward at alarming speed, occassionally soar and other times halt.
As sunset arrived they thought they'd uncovered a pattern. It had been there all along, only hidden like invisible ink.
But surely — they thought — it was too fantastical to be possible. Could the car really know what was true?
The more they wrote the more awestruck they became and hatched a perfect plan to use the car's startling knowledge for their fortune. The friends disappeared from sight to change future history.
Shoes would soon be rare, baldness revered and cars would fly (but not in the way commonly imagined) and other things most wouldn't believe.