I just posted this about five seconds ago in another thread, but that was just the first line. Here's the whole first paragraph.
Jim Gartner stared at a blank computer screen, wondering where science had gone wrong. Heart transplants, prosthetics, cars (in particular the 1953 Buick Special). It was all going so well. Then computers showed up. He looked down at the manual again.
Please insert Disk 1 into drive and press Return to continue.
"I put the disk in!" he grumbled, agitated. It was well into the evening and while this was his last task at the shop for the day, he still wanted to get home and watch some TV with a cold drink. "Why won't you work?"
"Talking to machines again?"
... I suppose that's more'n enough. I actually am trying fairly hard to make a good early hook. I hope it worked
