Challenge 704 - Food for thought
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m_findlowTitle: Food for thought
Character: Jack, Suzie
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 704 - Switch at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
torchwood100
torchwood100Summary: Suzie is confounded by alien tech. A double drabble.
Suzie leaned her elbows on the desk and frowned at the object.
'Problem, Suzie Costello?' Jack asked, intrigued by the confused expression on her face.
'Obviously,' she said, scowling at the item on her desk. She'd thought that having Tosh off sick would mean she'd get first dibs on all the interesting alien technology, but their latest find was just driving her crazy. 'It's just a lump of metal. No buttons, no switches. Nothing!'
Jack leaned his hip against the desk. 'Ah, the old human tactile fallacy.'
'The what?'
'Humans. We assume everything has to operate using touch. We like pressing buttons, flicking switches, swiping left and right, pulling, pushing, squeezing, stroking…'
'Mind out of the gutter, Jack,' Suzie chastised. 'What's your actual point? Well, what else is there?'
Jack tapped his temples. 'Mind control. Neural interface technology. Using your thoughts to operate technology. You've been so busy thinking "why won't you work?" without realising that it was working just fine. You were just thinking the wrong thing.' Without a word spoken it suddenly lit up and switched itself on, humming happily.
Suzie scowled at him. 'Bloody show off.'
'Not really. You still get to figure out what it does.'
Suzie leaned her elbows on the desk and frowned at the object.
'Problem, Suzie Costello?' Jack asked, intrigued by the confused expression on her face.
'Obviously,' she said, scowling at the item on her desk. She'd thought that having Tosh off sick would mean she'd get first dibs on all the interesting alien technology, but their latest find was just driving her crazy. 'It's just a lump of metal. No buttons, no switches. Nothing!'
Jack leaned his hip against the desk. 'Ah, the old human tactile fallacy.'
'The what?'
'Humans. We assume everything has to operate using touch. We like pressing buttons, flicking switches, swiping left and right, pulling, pushing, squeezing, stroking…'
'Mind out of the gutter, Jack,' Suzie chastised. 'What's your actual point? Well, what else is there?'
Jack tapped his temples. 'Mind control. Neural interface technology. Using your thoughts to operate technology. You've been so busy thinking "why won't you work?" without realising that it was working just fine. You were just thinking the wrong thing.' Without a word spoken it suddenly lit up and switched itself on, humming happily.
Suzie scowled at him. 'Bloody show off.'
'Not really. You still get to figure out what it does.'
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