When you don't have a pet, inanimate objects can be ascribed personalities. How often do you hear of people who have a name for their car? In France, I have created personalities for two very favorite inanimate objects. Or, one could argue, they have defined their personalities for themselves. The first is lovely Oscar. Oscar is a rather willful pool robot who goes where he wants, when he wants. He scours the bottom of the pool just as my old Roomba vaccuum did the carpets at home (before a chronic battery problem sent Roomba off to the next dimension). And by just the same, I mean in some random, peculiar pattern that seems to insist on going over some ground repeatedly and some never at all. The theory is one drops gently Oscar into the shallow
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