The Robots Vs Mrs Patel

Intro
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Verse 1
The D#Year Was 2020, And The HG#umans Weren’t Doing So WD#ell
For CmInstance A#Take The IG#nteresting Case Of MA#rs. Anjuli Patel
She D#Worked At The Easyday Supermarket, Which GG#ave Her No Special EnjD#oyment
It Was CmNot A Good A#Job, But IG#t Was A Job, And She Was Grateful To HA#ave The EmploD#yment

It Was A D#Wednesday But To Mrs. Patel It Was A WG#orkday Just Like Any OD#ther
She Was PreCmoccupied A#Thinking Of HG#ow She Felt Guilty About Not SA#pending Time With Her Mother
When She D#Arrived At Her Workplace She Stopped At The Sight Of SG#omething That Glittered And GD#leamed
In CmPlace Of Her A#Usual RG#egister Was A Shining Self-CA#heckout MachiD#ne

Then CmOut Of Her Normally GWell-Mannered Mouth Came Words Like Fucking And CmHell
And A#That Was The Start Of The TD#errible TaG#le Of The Robots Versus Mrs PateA#l
Of The A#Robots Versus Mrs PatD#el

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Verse 2
Well Her D#Boss Was A Pencil Moustache With A Pulse, His Eyes Traveled SG#outh Like Vasco Da GD#ama
And He CmLeered And He A#Jeered And He SG#aid With A Sneer “Mrs P, Let’s Not Have Any DA#rama,
This Is D#Secure Checkout Auto-Bot 1000, Scab 1G#000 If You PrefD#er
You’ll Be CmTraining Our A#Customers To UG#se It, And Dealing With Problems TA#hat May OccurD#”

Now D#Mrs. Patel Thought Of Strangling Him With The LG#anyard That Held Her ID#d Card
But She CmNeeded The A#Work Even MG#ore Since Her Husband Lost His Job As A Security GA#uard
And She Was D#Spending Her Evenings In Night School, Learning CG#oding And Programming SD#kills
One CmDay Soon A#Enough, She TG#hought To Herself, I’ll Get Off This Wage SA#lavery TreadmiD#ll

So She CmOpened Scab 1000’S GManual To Page One, And Thought To CmHerself:
We’ll A#See Who Will WD#in In This BaG#ttle I Call The Robots Vs. Mrs. PateA#l

The A#Robots Vs. Mrs. PatD#el

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Verse 3
Helping D#Customers Learn How To Use The Machines With WG#hich They Would Soon Be ReplD#aced
Was An CmIrony A#From Which MG#rs Patel And Her Colleagues Found They Just Could Not EscaA#pe
Some Plotted D#Sabotage, Some Dreamed Of A Union, But MG#rs Patel Knew The TD#ruth
When CmRobots And A#Bosses FG#ind Common Causes There Is Nothing Poor WA#orkers Can DoD#​

Or D#That’s What She Thought Until One Fateful Evening In Her LG#ate-Night Advanced Coding CD#lass
When She CmLearned About A#Strategies KG#nown To The Nerds As Adversarial AttaA#cks
So She D#Coded A Way To Trick The Machines To Check Out IG#tems That Didn’t ExisD#t
And To CmCharge The Fake A#Shopping To Her BG#oss’s Account Before He KA#new What He’d MiD#ssed

A Little CmAlgorithm Helped Her GBankrupt The System And The Rest Of The Franchise As CmWell
And In A A#Way You Could SD#ay That The RoG#bots Joined Forces With The Hero Called Mrs PateA#l
The A#Hero Called Mrs PatD#el

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Outro
Now She’s ReD#vered As A Binary Robin Hood ThroughoG#ut The SubcontineD#nt
The CmWorkers All A#Dance In CG#apital’s Ashes And Sing Of Her AccomplishmA#ents
And D#She And Her Team Of Rebellious Machines Are ReG#distributing The WD#ealth
All You CmBosses And A#Bankers Had BG#etter Beware Of The Robots And Mrs PA#atel
The G#Robots And Mrs PaD#tel