Automated Wrapping Paper Traps Gifters
When decorative paper that could wrap itself around an object hit the market in 2150, it changed the culture of gift-giving forever and made even the most clutzy gift giver look like a pro.
The flexible thin paper-like material embedded with programmable nanobots was also a hit among environmentalists for its reusable nature. It even had a tearing mode in which it could either tear itself up on behalf of a gift receiver or it would allow the receiver to tear it up on their own, before mending its form back for reuse.
But a new edition of the auto-wrap paper we have come to love has gone full paper rock scissors on us, wrapping several gift-givers in a bundle of “Joy”. For Toto Lark it took hours to break free from his nephew's Super Mario decorated paper.
Ally Rivers was even less lucky, as she hopped out of her apartment in her snuggly wrapped body, the odd cocoon switched it’s programmable pattern from a simple floral design to a mildly offensive design meant for a bachelorette party. Needless to say, people were not in a hurry to help an oddly shaped gift with male genitalia on it, shouting, “Unwrap me please!”
We hope this new line of rogue auto-wrap paper will be handled, or these winter holidays might look very different.
By Wolf Gnat