About Mr. and Mrs. Higgins
Mr. and Mrs. Higgins are examples of domobots--household
robots. They are fictional creations meant to
give us the ability to visualize what could be done
if we had robots in our homes today.
Mr. Higgins is a model 79B domobot. He is
quiet to a fault. The Smiths hardly notice
when he is in the house.
When
Mr. Higgins gets a day off, which is almost never,
he likes to take his new space ship, a Pissante
SquireBolt, for a spin around the planet.
There's not much to see, but, Mr. Higgins is content
to just stare out the window as the world goes by.
Mrs. Higgins is a model 82F domobot. Mrs.
Higgins is a newer, more capable domobot than Mr.
Higgins, but, she would never say that to her
husband.
Mr.
Higgins is useless when his pride is wounded.
One of the ways Mrs. Higgins keeps Mr. Higgins
working hard is by allowing him to buy the latest
model space craft every year. She thinks the
prices on these space craft are ridiculously high,
but likes the effect it has on Mr. Higgins.
When he gets back from a spin, he'll do just about
anything Mrs. Higgins asks him to do. It is
tragic how easily Mr. Higgins can be manipulated.
Mr. Higgins loves and cherishes Mrs. Higgins.
He has often wondered how he could of gotten this
far if Mrs. Higgins had not been by his side for all
these years. Mrs. Higgins knows he wouldn't have
gotten a darn thing done, but, well . . . you know
she would never tell him that to his face.
Together Mr. and Mrs. Higgins have built a pretty
good
life
together working for the Smiths. Once they had
the Smiths trained, the Smith family was a breeze to
take care of.
The only real problem the Higgins have with the
Smiths is that they own dogs. Not just one
dog, several dogs. The dogs leave dog hair
every where and growl whenever Mr. or Mrs. Higgins
yell at them to get off the furniture.
The Smiths only have two dogs now, but, Mrs.
Higgins has heard Mrs. Smith say when she is alone
that she looks forward to the day when she get
another three dogs and a personal dog-watcher
domobot.
