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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: Road Stop - -Author: David Mason - -Release Date: February 3, 2020 [EBook #61309] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROAD STOP *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="368" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>ROAD STOP</h1> - -<h2>by David Mason</h2> - -<p class="ph1">It was like any other car on the road. It<br /> -was automatic, self-contained—and eternal!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1963.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The highway stretched away in ruler-straight perspective toward both -horizons, black and shining in the sun like a river of ink. Beside -it, the bright pastel buildings of Rest Stop 25 stood among the green -trees. Occasionally a car shot past, a flash of metal and a hiss of -split wind; but the road was one which was used more often at night, -and was nearly empty in the afternoon.</p> - -<p>Sam was the only attendant on duty. Stop 25 needed only two human -attendants, even at its busiest hours. He sat, staring out at the -highway, his elbows on the lunch counter, his round face blank, but -his mouth set tightly. The phone at his elbow emitted a small grunting -noise.</p> - -<p>"You still there?" the phone voice said inquiringly.</p> - -<p>"Yeah." Sam said, still staring at the highway.</p> - -<p>"Well...." The voice paused. "Look, it might not come your way. It -usually turns west at the New Britain intersection."</p> - -<p>"Not always." Sam said. "It went by here once before."</p> - -<p>"It almost never stops, anyway," the voice said firmly. "It won't stop."</p> - -<p>"Some times it does," Sam said.</p> - -<p>"It doesn't have to."</p> - -<p>Sam shrugged and said nothing.</p> - -<p>"Okay, then," the voice said. "I called you about it, anyway."</p> - -<p>"Thanks."</p> - -<p>Sam turned away, still watching the road.</p> - -<p>Far off a speck of metal gleamed, growing larger. The distant high -sound of brakes began, as a car decelerated, coming toward the Stop.</p> - -<p>It was just an ordinary car, Sam told himself. That other car was -still hundreds of miles away. But his hands were damp as he watched it -grow larger.</p> - -<p>It was an ordinary Talman sedan, with two people in it. It swung into -the Stop's parking area, and its doors slid open smoothly. A small red -light flashed on its arched front. The repair signal. In response the -doors of the Repair shop opened. The Talman waited, as a man and a -woman emerged from its padded interior and moved slowly into the Repair -shop. The doors closed behind it.</p> - -<p>The couple came toward the restaurant, where Sam stood waiting.</p> - -<p>"Hi," the man said to Sam.</p> - -<p>"Afternoon." Sam moved to the counter. "Something to eat while you're -waiting, folks?"</p> - -<p>The tall, dark girl glanced out at the closed doors of the Repair shop.</p> - -<p>"How long's that car going to take?" she asked in a tired voice. "I -wanted to get home tonight."</p> - -<p>"Not long," Sam said. "It didn't look like anything complicated."</p> - -<p>"How can you tell?" the man asked, sitting down. "It could take all -night."</p> - -<p>"Like something to eat while you're waiting?" Sam asked.</p> - -<p>The woman stared at the lunch racks critically.</p> - -<p>"I never like these places to eat in," the woman said, curling her lip. -"You never know how long the food's been stored in the robot."</p> - -<p>"Oh, hell, Grace," the man said wearily. To Sam he gave an apologetic -shrug. "Just coffee."</p> - -<p>"Well, you don't know," the woman insisted. "I mean...." She watched -Sam drawing the coffee into a cup. "I used to cook a lot, by hand, till -Jack had the autokitchen put in. He never had any stomach trouble till -then. It's getting so everything's ... oh, I don't know. It's all out -of reach. You don't know what's happening any more. Like the car."</p> - -<p>"I wish I knew what she's talking about half the time," Jack said, -blowing on his coffee. Sam leaned on the counter, looking past the -couple toward the empty road.</p> - -<p>"I know what the lady means," Sam said, almost to himself. "You get -to thinking ... well, I can remember when people used to drive their -own cars. Themselves. Steering and everything, except on the biggest -highways. And everything got done with people. People made things, and -cooked food, and grew plants. Everybody was busy all the time. It was -better then."</p> - -<p>The man called Jack shrugged. "Sure, sure. Everybody always talks about -the good old days. But I don't see many of 'em going to live in the -woods. Like Grace—she says she doesn't like the autokitchen, but she -uses it."</p> - -<p>"It saves time," Grace said. "I guess I will have coffee, too, mister."</p> - -<p>"It saves time, she says," Jack said. "For what? She's got too much -time now."</p> - -<p>"I wonder what it must have been like in the old days, here," Grace -said vaguely, staring around the lunchroom. "Everybody running in and -out. All the drivers—trucks, with men in them, the way you read about -it in the historical novels. Men that drove their own cars, in all -kinds of weather ... gee."</p> - -<p>"Just like on TV," Sam said, grinning.</p> - -<p>"I hope we get the car out of there pretty soon," Jack said anxiously. -He glanced out toward the silent garage. "I always wonder what would -happen if the machinery stuck, or something. How would you ever get -your car out?"</p> - -<p>"It doesn't get stuck," Sam said. A peculiar look crossed his face as -he added, "Not any more."</p> - -<p>"Did it ever?"</p> - -<p>Sam shrugged. "Oh, well, you know twenty or thirty years ago all this -automatic stuff wasn't quite so good as it is now. Cars, repair -shops ... things went wrong, sometimes. Like ... like the Traveler."</p> - -<p>"The Traveler?" The woman looked up. "Oh, that's just a ghost story. -Like the Flying Dutchman. Isn't it?"</p> - -<p>The lunchroom was completely silent. Sam was no longer paying any -attention to the couple sitting at the counter. He was close to the -big window, standing stiffly, feet apart, like an admiral on a ship's -bridge, his eyes studying the empty horizon. There, where the lines -of the road met with the precision of a drawing-board exercise in -perspective, he thought he saw a fleck of light.</p> - -<p>"It isn't when it goes past," Sam said, in a quiet tight voice. He -talked at the window, his back to the other two, his words meant -mostly for himself.</p> - -<p>"It's not its going by. That doesn't bother me," he repeated. "It came -by my old place five or six times, I remember. That's why I finally -asked to be transferred out here, where it hardly ever goes by. But I -could have gotten used to it. I mean, you don't have to look at it, or -anything. It's just another car. Old, sure, but there's no difference. -A car goes by, that's all. Only...."</p> - -<p>"You mean it's real?" the woman asked, in a low voice.</p> - -<p>Her husband's eyes were looking out, toward the empty road, following -Sam's look.</p> - -<p>"The Traveler," he said, without looking at his wife. "Sure, it's real. -Why'd you think they don't make that model of car any more? It's real. -I knew somebody who saw it, once."</p> - -<p>"There might even be two or three Travelers," Sam said, watching the -distant glitter of light. There was certainly a car coming. Just a -car ... although it was still too far away to tell for sure.</p> - -<p>"A haunted car!" the woman said, her eyes wider. "Gee!"</p> - -<p>"It isn't a haunted car," her husband said. "It's just one of the -earliest makes of automatic highway cars. Everything automatic, -steering, destination set ... just like any car is, nowadays. Only it -wasn't quite perfect, somehow."</p> - -<p>"They got into their car," Sam said, his eyes picking out distant, -microscopic details. The high flaring fins, the double headlamps ... -lit up, although it was broad daylight on the road. He knew what the -rest would be. It was moving so slowly. But it always moved slowly, -barely thirty miles an hour. As if somebody wanted you to look and -see....</p> - -<p>"They just got in, the way anybody would do," Sam said. "They set a -destination, and the windows closed up, and the airconditioner went on, -and the car went out on the road."</p> - -<p>"Only it never got there," the other man said. "Wherever it was going -to go."</p> - -<p>"But ..." the woman looked puzzled. "Wouldn't anybody stop it? I mean, -wouldn't it run out of fuel, or ... well, how did the people in it get -out?"</p> - -<p>"It does just what any car does," her husband told her. "It gets fuel -when it needs it. You can't just stop a robot control device. Not till -it's good and ready."</p> - -<p>"But the people in it," she said. "They'd starve, or something...."</p> - -<p>The car called the Traveler, rolling at the stately thirty miles an -hour it always held, was coming down the road now, and the two men -stood, watching. The woman, a little behind them, watched too, her face -growing whiter. No one said anything as the old fashioned car rolled -by, straight and steady down the highway, holding the center of the -lane as sharply as it always did.</p> - -<p>There was a film of dust inside the windows, though the Traveler was -clean and shining outside. But the film did hide the white bone faces, -the despairing hands that had long ago stopped trying to break through -those closed windows.</p> - -<p>"They never did get out," the man named Jack said, as the Traveler -rolled on, growing smaller along the endless road.</p> - -<p>"I don't mind it when it goes past," Sam said, his voice thinner edged. -"I really don't. It's just a car. Things like that used to happen. I -mean, it's a car. Even when it stops to get gas, I don't have to pay -any attention."</p> - -<p>He looked at the couple, his mouth loose. "As long as it just goes on. -That's all right. But I keep thinking some day it'll stop. And the door -will open. And maybe ... maybe they'll want lunch."</p> - -<p>He giggled uncontrollably, and then choked it back.</p> - -<p>Outside, the big hangar doors of the repair shop opened. The car that -had been inside appeared; it moved out and stopped, its doors open -invitingly.</p> - -<p>"Your car's ready now," Sam told the couple. "So long, folks. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: Road Stop - -Author: David Mason - -Release Date: February 3, 2020 [EBook #61309] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROAD STOP *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - ROAD STOP - - by David Mason - - It was like any other car on the road. It - was automatic, self-contained--and eternal! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1963. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -The highway stretched away in ruler-straight perspective toward both -horizons, black and shining in the sun like a river of ink. Beside -it, the bright pastel buildings of Rest Stop 25 stood among the green -trees. Occasionally a car shot past, a flash of metal and a hiss of -split wind; but the road was one which was used more often at night, -and was nearly empty in the afternoon. - -Sam was the only attendant on duty. Stop 25 needed only two human -attendants, even at its busiest hours. He sat, staring out at the -highway, his elbows on the lunch counter, his round face blank, but -his mouth set tightly. The phone at his elbow emitted a small grunting -noise. - -"You still there?" the phone voice said inquiringly. - -"Yeah." Sam said, still staring at the highway. - -"Well...." The voice paused. "Look, it might not come your way. It -usually turns west at the New Britain intersection." - -"Not always." Sam said. "It went by here once before." - -"It almost never stops, anyway," the voice said firmly. "It won't stop." - -"Some times it does," Sam said. - -"It doesn't have to." - -Sam shrugged and said nothing. - -"Okay, then," the voice said. "I called you about it, anyway." - -"Thanks." - -Sam turned away, still watching the road. - -Far off a speck of metal gleamed, growing larger. The distant high -sound of brakes began, as a car decelerated, coming toward the Stop. - -It was just an ordinary car, Sam told himself. That other car was -still hundreds of miles away. But his hands were damp as he watched it -grow larger. - -It was an ordinary Talman sedan, with two people in it. It swung into -the Stop's parking area, and its doors slid open smoothly. A small red -light flashed on its arched front. The repair signal. In response the -doors of the Repair shop opened. The Talman waited, as a man and a -woman emerged from its padded interior and moved slowly into the Repair -shop. The doors closed behind it. - -The couple came toward the restaurant, where Sam stood waiting. - -"Hi," the man said to Sam. - -"Afternoon." Sam moved to the counter. "Something to eat while you're -waiting, folks?" - -The tall, dark girl glanced out at the closed doors of the Repair shop. - -"How long's that car going to take?" she asked in a tired voice. "I -wanted to get home tonight." - -"Not long," Sam said. "It didn't look like anything complicated." - -"How can you tell?" the man asked, sitting down. "It could take all -night." - -"Like something to eat while you're waiting?" Sam asked. - -The woman stared at the lunch racks critically. - -"I never like these places to eat in," the woman said, curling her lip. -"You never know how long the food's been stored in the robot." - -"Oh, hell, Grace," the man said wearily. To Sam he gave an apologetic -shrug. "Just coffee." - -"Well, you don't know," the woman insisted. "I mean...." She watched -Sam drawing the coffee into a cup. "I used to cook a lot, by hand, till -Jack had the autokitchen put in. He never had any stomach trouble till -then. It's getting so everything's ... oh, I don't know. It's all out -of reach. You don't know what's happening any more. Like the car." - -"I wish I knew what she's talking about half the time," Jack said, -blowing on his coffee. Sam leaned on the counter, looking past the -couple toward the empty road. - -"I know what the lady means," Sam said, almost to himself. "You get -to thinking ... well, I can remember when people used to drive their -own cars. Themselves. Steering and everything, except on the biggest -highways. And everything got done with people. People made things, and -cooked food, and grew plants. Everybody was busy all the time. It was -better then." - -The man called Jack shrugged. "Sure, sure. Everybody always talks about -the good old days. But I don't see many of 'em going to live in the -woods. Like Grace--she says she doesn't like the autokitchen, but she -uses it." - -"It saves time," Grace said. "I guess I will have coffee, too, mister." - -"It saves time, she says," Jack said. "For what? She's got too much -time now." - -"I wonder what it must have been like in the old days, here," Grace -said vaguely, staring around the lunchroom. "Everybody running in and -out. All the drivers--trucks, with men in them, the way you read about -it in the historical novels. Men that drove their own cars, in all -kinds of weather ... gee." - -"Just like on TV," Sam said, grinning. - -"I hope we get the car out of there pretty soon," Jack said anxiously. -He glanced out toward the silent garage. "I always wonder what would -happen if the machinery stuck, or something. How would you ever get -your car out?" - -"It doesn't get stuck," Sam said. A peculiar look crossed his face as -he added, "Not any more." - -"Did it ever?" - -Sam shrugged. "Oh, well, you know twenty or thirty years ago all this -automatic stuff wasn't quite so good as it is now. Cars, repair -shops ... things went wrong, sometimes. Like ... like the Traveler." - -"The Traveler?" The woman looked up. "Oh, that's just a ghost story. -Like the Flying Dutchman. Isn't it?" - -The lunchroom was completely silent. Sam was no longer paying any -attention to the couple sitting at the counter. He was close to the -big window, standing stiffly, feet apart, like an admiral on a ship's -bridge, his eyes studying the empty horizon. There, where the lines -of the road met with the precision of a drawing-board exercise in -perspective, he thought he saw a fleck of light. - -"It isn't when it goes past," Sam said, in a quiet tight voice. He -talked at the window, his back to the other two, his words meant -mostly for himself. - -"It's not its going by. That doesn't bother me," he repeated. "It came -by my old place five or six times, I remember. That's why I finally -asked to be transferred out here, where it hardly ever goes by. But I -could have gotten used to it. I mean, you don't have to look at it, or -anything. It's just another car. Old, sure, but there's no difference. -A car goes by, that's all. Only...." - -"You mean it's real?" the woman asked, in a low voice. - -Her husband's eyes were looking out, toward the empty road, following -Sam's look. - -"The Traveler," he said, without looking at his wife. "Sure, it's real. -Why'd you think they don't make that model of car any more? It's real. -I knew somebody who saw it, once." - -"There might even be two or three Travelers," Sam said, watching the -distant glitter of light. There was certainly a car coming. Just a -car ... although it was still too far away to tell for sure. - -"A haunted car!" the woman said, her eyes wider. "Gee!" - -"It isn't a haunted car," her husband said. "It's just one of the -earliest makes of automatic highway cars. Everything automatic, -steering, destination set ... just like any car is, nowadays. Only it -wasn't quite perfect, somehow." - -"They got into their car," Sam said, his eyes picking out distant, -microscopic details. The high flaring fins, the double headlamps ... -lit up, although it was broad daylight on the road. He knew what the -rest would be. It was moving so slowly. But it always moved slowly, -barely thirty miles an hour. As if somebody wanted you to look and -see.... - -"They just got in, the way anybody would do," Sam said. "They set a -destination, and the windows closed up, and the airconditioner went on, -and the car went out on the road." - -"Only it never got there," the other man said. "Wherever it was going -to go." - -"But ..." the woman looked puzzled. "Wouldn't anybody stop it? I mean, -wouldn't it run out of fuel, or ... well, how did the people in it get -out?" - -"It does just what any car does," her husband told her. "It gets fuel -when it needs it. You can't just stop a robot control device. Not till -it's good and ready." - -"But the people in it," she said. "They'd starve, or something...." - -The car called the Traveler, rolling at the stately thirty miles an -hour it always held, was coming down the road now, and the two men -stood, watching. The woman, a little behind them, watched too, her face -growing whiter. No one said anything as the old fashioned car rolled -by, straight and steady down the highway, holding the center of the -lane as sharply as it always did. - -There was a film of dust inside the windows, though the Traveler was -clean and shining outside. But the film did hide the white bone faces, -the despairing hands that had long ago stopped trying to break through -those closed windows. - -"They never did get out," the man named Jack said, as the Traveler -rolled on, growing smaller along the endless road. - -"I don't mind it when it goes past," Sam said, his voice thinner edged. -"I really don't. It's just a car. Things like that used to happen. I -mean, it's a car. Even when it stops to get gas, I don't have to pay -any attention." - -He looked at the couple, his mouth loose. "As long as it just goes on. -That's all right. But I keep thinking some day it'll stop. And the door -will open. And maybe ... maybe they'll want lunch." - -He giggled uncontrollably, and then choked it back. - -Outside, the big hangar doors of the repair shop opened. The car that -had been inside appeared; it moved out and stopped, its doors open -invitingly. - -"Your car's ready now," Sam told the couple. "So long, folks. 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