John Cally was bored. He was stuck in the backseat of the car on a long six hour drive to the outer banks where his parents had rented a beach house for the upcoming week.
He stared out the window and watched the rolling countryside fly past the car as they zoomed down the highway. He was sandwiched between the car seat holding his four year old sister and his older brother. His sister kept bugging him and his brother ignored him.
He started playing around with his phone and noticed an app he had downloaded recently. It promised to change one thing about anything. John figures it was one of those apps that took a picture and showed you what a person looked like if they were older or a different race. It seemed fun enough. He started it up and read the instructions.
A map came up and allowed him to select people or objects in his immediate vicinity. He decided to select his brother. The phone prompted him “generate description?”
John chose yes.
The phone displayed a sentence. “A sixteen year old boy named Thomas with acne.”
John giggles and changed “Thomas” to “Fartface”. The app asked him if he wanted to confirm the change. Nothing happened.
This was boring. He shook his head. Then his mother spoke from the front.
“Fartface,” she said flatly.
“Yeah?” answered John’s brother.
“Will you roll up your window?”
John was shocked. “Fartface?” He said tentatively?
“What twerp?”
“Nothing.”
“Leave me alone then.”
John looked back at the app. Did this thing really work? He still had his brother selected. It offered “generate new sentence?” John clicked yes.
The screen displayed a sentence: “An annoyed 16 year old boy named Thomas with brown hair.”
John giggled and changed “annoyed” to “girly.” He confirmed the change and glanced at his brother.
His brother looked mostly the same, but thinner and a bit paler. He now had carefully manicured fingernails and professionally done long hair with pink highlights. John also noted that his brother was wearing tight low rise jeans and a pink halter top.
John laughed uproariously. This was awesome.