Back in the rear offices, back beyond the unused old vending machines, and the stacks of cut-up boxes for recycling, the folks at prompt central have quietly gone on strike. That’s right, today is February fifth, and the prompt for the day is exactly the same as it was last year at the same time.
Maybe they are getting the annual St. Valentine’s Day party going early. Or perhaps they are holding a job action, and producing no new prompts until they get an upgrade on the coffeemaker. I do not know, but somebody is lying down on the job. How about picking the prompt from 2023 or 2022? Most of us would not have looked at it with suspicion, ” Say, that looks awfully familiar?”
Perhaps their old punch card-fed computer glitched, and the master program began to flash the bright red ERROR sign. I can see it now, their ideal day…airing the old offices of the smoke, getting the retired computer techs out of retirement to attempt to fit “Ole Bessy” up again. Then, of course, the hurried search for Post-it notes to begin to scrawl next week’s prompts.
Lucille to the Rescue!
Luckily, Lucille is still part of the team. Lucille was the one who came up with the “spicy prompts a few years ago. You know, “What’s your favorite illicit activity?” ” Which celebrity would you most like to spend a lost weekend with?” Lucille almost got you guys shut down with the prompt about…well I blush to think about that one, and it takes a lot to make me blush. Go, Lucille!!!!
Me? Well, I’m a bit upset. My answer from last year still stands as my answer for the prompt. Even I can’t endlessly come up with twisted variations on a theme. I mean, Holy Moley, WordPress, this is an emergency!
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Maybe your “most” ideal day is the day when the prompt isn’t a repetition? Do you want to come prompt for RDP? I believe we’re short-handed.
I have no Idea of how it works, but you can coach me!
Really? There’s nothing to it. I’ll get the full instructions and you can take one of my days or Heather’s. Once you’re connected, you just post a “blog” on your “day” just like that, just like any other blog. The part I can’t remember is how you join, but I’ll find out.
I’ve complained to WordPress numerous times about their repeated prompts. I don’t think it would be quite so bad if they repeated every 10 years, by which time you may have forgotten what you wrote before, but repeating so soon (and at around the same time of year) is unacceptable, especially in this age of AI when it wouldn’t be that hard to generate a new prompt every day forever. Complain! If more of us do, maybe they’ll do something!
Bring on Lucille!
Absolutely! The sort of prompter for you and me!