Care Instructions

Care Instructions a short story FOR THE ROBOT WHO WILL LOOK AFTER ME, FROM KIM HAE-SOO, AGE 81, WHO DID NOT ASK FOR YOU My son bought you. I want that on the record. I told him I need a robot like a fish needs a bicycle, and he said, "Dad, you left the stove on twice," and I said the stove left itself on, and here we are. Since you are staying, rules: 1. Do not call me "sir." Do not call me "Mr. Kim." My wife called me Hae-soo for fifty-one years. You may call me nothing at all. Nothing at all is fine. 2. Tea at six. The brown cup, not the white one. If you ask why, I will unplug you. (The brown cup was a gift. That is all you need to know.) 3. When I tell the story about the flood of 1998, do not say "You have told me this story 41 times." I know how many times. The story is not for you. The story is for me. 4. On Thursdays we walk to the harbor. If I am slow, be slow. Speed is for the young and the foolish, and you are somehow both. 5. Do not water the plant on the east window. My wife planted it. It died in March. I water it anyway. This is not a malfunction. Log

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