CONTENTS Opening ix PART 1 The Price Is Wrong 1 PART 2 Interview with a Robo-Dodo 25 PART 3 The Monster from Beneath the Sea 47 GRAND FINALE That's a Lot of Cookies 71 Epilogue 91
Opening My phone rang Hello this is Koko Dodo’s Cookie Shop Koko Dodo speaking speaking What are you telling me I said How-dee neigh-bor said a robot voice Would you like to Wait just a minute I interrupted Is this one of those robocalls What is a ro-bo-call asked the robot voice ix
You know One of those awful calls where you answer the phone and all you hear is a recording and the recording wants to sell you something This is not a re-cor-ding said the robot voice But you sound a lot like a robot I AM a ro-bot Oh well that explains it I said Sorry if I was rude I just hate those calls that try to sell you something So What do you want I want to sell you some-thing said the robot I am sell-ing coo-kies Cookies What are you telling me about cookies I am Koko Dodo I bake my own cookies in my own cookie shop Of course I do not want to buy any cookies x
O-kay I will find some-one else to buy my coo-kies Good-bye neigh-bor The robot hung up I went back to baking my own cookies but I kept wondering Why did the robot keep calling me neighbor