video / un: DocHolliday

[ihavecharacter]

[At first it's just an eyebrow with some muttering about stupid contraptions.] How does this thing work?

[He pulls it closer, but there's an eye now. You wanted to see an eye, right?] And just how are you supposed to tell if it is working?

[He sighs before holding it a little farther away.] Well, I do not know if it is working. This thing is unusual at best. I suppose I might as well make an introduction. Hello. [He goes to tip the hat that is not there before making an annoyed expression and moving on.] My name is John Henry, but you may call me Doc. If anyone is better with these things, I believe I may be in need of some instruction.

Unless I am talking to myself. [This is said softer and meant to be mostly to himself.] Perhaps I ought to stop this before I make even more of a fool of myself.

Comments

[willtheunwise]

I wouldn’t necessarily call this thing a phone but I guess that’s some future thing. Phones when I’m from are a lot bigger and they have cables and you can only make calls with them. I thought this thing was a really weird calculator at first.

[ihavecharacter]

There are not really phones where I am from, but that is perhaps another matter. But Waverly says these are, in fact, telephones. What, pray tell, is a calculator?

[willtheunwise]

Yeah I had a hard time with the idea these things are actually telephones too.
A calculator is a small machine that does maths for you.