Everyone was tucking away as much of Mabel's menu as they could manage, along with either coffee or motor oil. Depending. Most of the talk that night was about the disappearance of four more Big Lug robots - from a construction site, this time. They just kept failing to show up for work.

The crowd at the Astro were full of stories about Lugs that'd gotten lost, or had walked downhill into a fenced yard and couldn't find their way out again. Because your Big Lug, unlike other robots we know - with a nod to Rusty - is maybe not as clever as it could be.

Mabel beeped twice and rolled back to the kitchen. Only Rusty knew what she meant, of course, but a silence fell over the crowd as they each tried to figure it out anyway.