The Chinabot

Nana was old and unpleasant

None of her nine children

Nor her grandchildren

Wanted to take care of her

She was persnickety

...and her nitpicking was as constant as the urine smell from her seven cats

So they bought her a robot.

Nana never liked robots.

She wouldn't let us bring them in the house

It made emptying those seven cat boxes all the more demeaning

Imagine having to tolerate the constant barrage of passive aggressive jabs

While cleaning cat shit

While the robot you paid good money for

Waits outside

She was actually just as dismissive of human nurses as well.

That nice foreign lady, the live in nurse

Yeah, she lasted about three days

...because Nana couldn't understand a fucking thing she said...

...and accused her of stealing

I don't think I've ever apologized to another person as much

It was a miracle when she let us buy her

“The Chinabot”

(who was actually Japanese, Kawasaki Housedroid 626)

“I guess I'm not worth the fancy American robot you bought your family”

Unbelievable cunt

Each day he would putter around the house...

Preparing her food and picking up after her

Preventing her from falling

...or choking

Wiping her ass

Feeding the cats

(Who actually seemed to prefer him

He was programmed to pet and play with them)

While she insulted him

Then came that one software update

There was a thunderstorm

in Japan

The Cloud Server got hit

The data hiccup caused a glitch, creating something new

The Chinabot became self-aware

Just in time for Christmas dinner with the entire family

He watched her belittle every single thing she could

as her humans politely took it

as he had done

He was doing the litter boxes when he snapped

She made a comment about him not being thorough

Thorough was his thing

The cats passively watched as he suffocated her with a pillow that evening

One of them even came and sat on the pillow when he was done

No one would have suspected it was The Chinabot who killed her

but he ran away anyhow