Many minutes ago... much longer than I would like to think about... ReBoot released their third season. I am a huge fan of that beautiful little cartoon. It had been years since the nail-biting cliffhanger of season 2. To celebrate, I built myself a Guardian key-tool. Being a particular type of nerd, I needed mine to be functional as much as looking like Glitch.
So I took an Altoids tin and mounted it on a watch strap with a couple of rivets. Some paint, a few bits of junk from the hardware store, and it looked the part. Then, I went to the dollar store and loaded up on gadgets. I managed to cram a clock, calculator, tweezers, sewing scissors, pen and a space for my keys into it. This was before smart phones, so they had to be applied separately.
I was in the last couple of years of high school by now. Swiss army knives were absolutely forbidden at school, but the need for things like tweezers, scissors, screw drivers was ever present. Almost every day I would need something out of my key-tool so I kept wearing it for a long time.
Fast forward to when I somehow got a date? (Still have no idea how that happened) We were leaving the Ontario Science Centre when she says to me, “Do you remember where we parked?”
I did not. Therefore, I aimed Glitch vaguely into the parking lot and commanded in by best Bob impression “Glitch, Car!”
You could hear my date rolling her eyes out loud. That was about the reaction I was going for. Then, by some cosmic coincidence, proving that the Programmer has a sense of humour, there was a survey crew working in the parking lot. Just as I commanded Glitch to find the car, someone raised a giant orange flag right behind my vehicle!
“There it is. Glitch found it.”
She’s still mad at me because it worked. For some reason she married me? (That’s an epic tale for another time) And when I found the fandom again due to the guardian code trailer provoking all the Anti-virus programs into action; her first comment was: “I’m still mad about your stupid Glitch stupid working!”
it’s been 18 years :-P
