“May the force be with you.”
They were waiting for a shipment of woofer cones delayed from Germany and so Sonny was helping out in electronics that night. John, the tech, was working on dead amplifier boards and marking them appropriately for repair. This one board appeared beyond his abilities and so he was invoking this new old adage from Star Wars.
He was a fanatic and had already seen the film several times. Sonny was planning on seeing it for the first and only time that coming weekend, more because it had become a cultural phenomenon rather than the appeal of the movie itself. He was not a fan of science fiction. That summer he had devoured the entire Sherlock Holmes oeuvre and so had become a devotee to deductive reasoning.
John, though, loved every aspect of the movie, and especially the force. He tried to explain it to Sonny. “Like it’s all electricity, and you and I are just amplifier boards. One might blow, but the force is always there.”
Sonny paused. “Very Zenny, John, but why are the damned amps even here in the first place?”
John laughed. “Who knows? I’m just a tech.” He picked up the problem amplifier board and attached it to the scope again. “Maybe so this damned electricity can see itself,” he said in frustration.
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