Verb Tenses Are What Really Give Me Headaches

"The problem with being a robotic time traveller," she said, "Is that it's so hard to find parking in San Francisco."

"Actually," I replied, "That happens to everyone, whether they're a robotic time traveller or not. In this context, you're nothing special."

"That possibility is too awful for me to contemplate," she said, and she shut town and time travelled back to a time when the city had more parking. Then she reactivated and had coffee with Emperor Norton instead of me.

Yay Emperor Norton!