Pickles & Dimes

Come in, Control Tower. I repeat, come in Control Tower.

This is Control Tower. What is your situation?

We’ve got a non-functioning right orbital lens cover.

That can’t be! It’s brand new.

It is brand new, sir. But I assure you it is depositing a grainy substance onto the retinal surface.

Sonofabitch.

The visionary photographs we are attempting to upload to the central brain repository are blurry.

Have you attempted to uninstall the lens cover and reboot?

Affirmative. Repeated installations have proven unsuccessful. What other options are available for utilization?

There is still the manual lens cover.

Aw, Christ.

Even though it’s bulky and the peripheral vision capacity will be severely limited, it is your only hope if you want to complete your mission.

{long pause} Then that’s what we’ll do.

Godspeed, gentlemen.

(In other words, my contacts suck.)