District eight

The courier got an order for district eight. The city has seven, and past the ring road there is fresh asphalt and light in the windows.

Lines: 32 · about 104 s of video · Ghost town

1. YouI got an order for district eight
2. ThemWe have seven
3. YouThat is what I thought
4. There is an address, a building, a pin on the map
5. ThemSend me a screenshot
6. YouSent
7. pause 1.5 s
8. ThemThat is past the ring road. It is a field
9. YouThe map says building 4, entrance 2, flat 33
10. ThemCancel it
11. YouCancelling costs me three hundred
12. ThemCancel it anyway
13. pause 1.2 s
14. YouI am already driving. The road is fine
15. Fresh asphalt
16. ThemThere is no asphalt past the ring road
17. YouThere is now
18. pause 1.8 s
19. ThemWhat can you see
20. YouBuildings. Five of them. Lights in the windows
21. There is a radio playing in the yard
22. ThemWhat radio
23. YouI do not know. An old song
24. pause 1.5 s
25. I went up. Flat 33
26. They opened at once, as if they had been at the peephole
27. ThemWho opened
28. pause 1.2 s
29. YouA woman. She said "at last"
30. She took the order and signed the receipt
31. ThemThen drive off
32. YouDriving
33. pause 1.8 s
34. Listen, the app still shows the order as undelivered
35. ThemIt happens. Sync
36. YouIt says "courier did not arrive"
37. pause 1.5 s
38. And the order date: 14 June 2009
39. Tony, I cannot get out of this courtyard

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