Walking up to the house, Johnny could hardly contain the thrill that was running rampant through him right now. If this works, world peace will be possible, he thought. And I'll be a billionaire! The very idea put a smile on his face.
Hopping up the steps on the deck, he entered his home through the back door.
"Moooommmmm!" He hollered through the house.
"I'm down here, honey," she replied from the basement.
Johnny jog-walked to the door leading to the basement and slid down the banister, hopping off at the last second and landed gracefully on his feet. He turned the corner and saw his mother dutifully folding laundry.
"Mom, you're not going to believe it. It's going to work. It has to work. I've done all the calculations, crunched the numbers a thousand times. This is it. This is the real deal," Johnny said hurriedly.
"Hold your horses. What is going to work this time? The Razr phone that actually shaves your face while you talk," she quipped.
"Look, that would've worked. It isn't my fault the first person to try it out had a huge beard," Johnny said defensively.
"That poor man... he would have never gotten that phone out of his beard if it wasn't for the barber shop down the street."
Johnny could tell her skepticism wasn't going to play well with his in-the-moment enthusiasm.
"Look, mom. This is the last time. I promise. I made a machine that condenses a person's experience and transfers their understanding to another subject. In other words, this machine creates empathy."
Mom looked at Johnny through her glasses, arms folded, with one eyebrow raised. "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."
"Five minutes, mom. That's all I'm asking," said Johnny, hoping to get his mom to give him one more favor. "This is a chance for people to understand one another more completely. With this machine, I could understand why you're so frustrated with my inventing blunders."
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