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Instead of calling Aliza, the cell phone transported them back to their own time. Annie was about to call her sister again when she realized that Biz’s hand was a bigger problem. There was only one thing to do now: get Biz a robotic hand. Fortunately, she knew a guy.

Biz and Annie went down some dark alley into a small, plain room. There, a tall man sat playing poker with some robots. “I can guess what you’re here after,” said the man, “and I would gladly give it to you. For a price.”
“What price?” asked Biz.
“Oh, I require only the basic necessities of life, which you possess in abundance. I’m sure you have lakes full of it back at home, so there won’t be any trouble, will there?” answered the man.
“What do you want?” asked Biz.
“I’m sorry, was I not making myself clear? Or do you not want to make a deal? If so, don’t keep it bottled up.” the man answered again.
Biz was genuinely confused. The man, seeing his confusion, kept going.
“I see that you don’t think I was being very transparent, but that’s no reason to fall silent, let’s keep this conversation flowing.”
Biz was about to speak when Annie interrupted. “Enough!” she exclaimed. “Biz, he wants distilled water.”

The man nodded and began to show them some advanced robotics when Annie looked at Biz’s hand and observed that it had grown back. She whispered into his ear, “How did that happen with your hand?”

They excused themselves. “Annie, do you remember what I told you about my childhood?” Biz asked.
“Yes,” Annie replied. “You were raised by a couple of mad scientists who were later arrested for illegal experimentation on humans.”
“Well, there’s something else I might have forgotten to mention,” Biz replied. “I may have a teensy weensy bit of starfish DNA.”

They weren’t even kosher birds.

Oops, forgot to give credit to Reb Yidel Schwartz.

Meanwhile, Annie and Biz were at the zoo, looking at the rattlesnakes.
“See, Biz?” she pointed. “You can identify the snakes by their features. Now let’s go hunt one!”
They left the zoo and headed out to go rattlesnake hunting.

Thanks, mod.

Freddyfish, I was thinking the same thing, but the movie rights belong to YWN.

Characters:

Baruch: Male, mashgiach, prefers when his watch is in proper working order. A broken hand caused him some strange psychological symptoms, or is something else at play?
Dr. Panner: Male, works as a doctor, but also works secretly at the restaurant at which Baruch is an undercover mashgiach.
Two Chinese men: Might be a hallucination.
The doctor: Is an unnamed doctor who appears in the story. May or may not be the same person as Dr. Panner, but I’m assuming that not, because Baruch is suspicious of Dr. Panner.
Aliza: Female. Happily married to Baruch, but concerned about his health. Works as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Owns considerable illiquid assets.
Annie Sakanah: Female, Aliza’s sister, who lives on a ranch. Married to Biz. Has guns and a pet snake, and is the type of person who likes guns and snakes. Can treat a bullet wound while driving a car. Loving mother and wife, and a generally nice person.
Washington Business Sakanah: Male, Annie’s husband. Nice guy who can help anyone with a business related question, typically referred to as Biz. Has only one gun of his own. Caretaker to the snake. One-quarter Japanese, but unfortunately racist against Japanese people. Got involved in a messy mayoral race with O’Keefle, and had to do some mind control on a crony for the good of the town.
The baby: Annie’s and Biz’s baby, who doesn’t have a name because they couldn’t agree on one.
The other children: Annie and Biz have an unspecified number of children. They buy a stock from Aliza.
O’Keefle: Male, half Irish, Chinese, all mean. Running in a race against Biz, and playing dirty.
O’Keefle’s crony: A crony of O’Keefle who once threatened Aliza. Controlled by Biz using drugs.
Biz’s mother: Half Japanese, engages in Multi-Level Marketing and other despicable practices.
Biz’s Grandmother: One of Annie’s best friends, a Japanese woman who never told her grandson that she is Japanese.

Although Biz was convinced it was a setup, he had in fact traveled back to 1941. Coincidentally, O’Keefle had also attempted to prank him with the same at the same time. Annie realized this when she recognized her great grandfather in the background of a selfie, and she put it together from other details as well, but it did not seem to matter. Nothing could be done.
As she took the wheel of the car with her left hand, carefully treating Biz’s minor bullet wound, she decided to continue to pursue an all natural rattle for her baby. It would be fun, and it would distract Biz from the pain, since he refused to take opioids. She had no ethical concerns about her husband’s kidnapping and drugging of O’Keefle’s crony—-this was the same one who had once threatened her sister with a knife, and she was glad to see his mind taken over. But Aliza had rubbed off on her, and she was concerned about the psychological effects on her husband. A family vacation would be nice, and it would help them heal. Was now a good time to tell Biz that his mother was half Japanese?

Luckily, their phones were a link to 2018, and they were pretty sure that they would easily get back after completing an adventure in the year 1941.
After they drove down the road, having decided to look for a rattlesnake in the year 1941, Annie’s phone rang. It was Aliza.
“Hello!” Annie greeted her sister. “How are you?”
“I’m mostly fine, how are you?” Aliza replied.
“I’m actually in the year 1941, but my cell phone has the ability to reach you in 2018!” answered Annie. “I just hope I can keep using my car charger, and that nobody in 1941 Nevada notices the anachronism that I’m driving.”
“That’s super weird, and your sudden time travel raises a lot of WWII related moral obligations, but I actually have a question about business.” Aliza responded.
“If I can,” Annie replied, “But I don’t know if I’ll be able to answer. Should I put you on speaker phone so my husband can hear?”
“Might as well.”
Annie put Aliza on speaker phone.
Aliza recounted her problem. “Lately, my husband has been having some medical issues, both physical and psychological. It started when he broke his hand, and he fell unconscious. Now he says that he has stared into the void, and he had a vivid dream about being stared at by Chinese men, and he thought it was real, but if it were real, how would he know the man were Chinese? In my experience as a psychiatric nurse practitioner, I have never heard of a similar case to this where drugs weren’t involved.”
“That’s not a business question!” Annie exclaimed.
“The business question is this,” Aliza answered. “I believe that I can have Baruch tested for all possible drugs, even those that are currently being secretly tested by the Mossad. However, it will cost at least five thousand dollars. How can I put together that kind of money quickly and in a way that Baruch will be okay with?”
Annie’s husband spoke up. “I’m sure I can answer your business question if you give me more details. Business is my middle name! What kind of assets do you have?”
“As Annie already knows,” Aliza said softly, “Baruch and I are not poor, but we live a kollel lifestyle. That is to say, he and I both own considerable illiquid assets. We live this way on purpose, because we don’t want the struggles of being too rich.”
“In that case,” he replied, “We would gladly help out with a loan. Unfortunately, we are in the year 1941, and we cannot give you the loan directly. I’ll still help out, though. If Annie agrees, when we hang up the phone, we’ll call our older children and ask them to buy some of your stocks with the emergency funds that we left them in case of sudden time travel.”
“I agree!” exclaimed Annie.
“Thanks, Biz!” said Aliza. “Thank you, Annie, as well.”
“73. Goodbye, Aliza!” Annie and Biz said in unison, as they had rehearsed many times before in order to save time when making conference calls.
“Bye, thanks again!” Aliza answered.
Then Annie and Biz called their children to tell them to buy the stocks. The children immediately agreed and followed through. The baby started crying. As Annie rocked the baby, Biz tried to use his smartphone to send an email to his boss, who would be upset if he didn’t come to work without explanation.
John,

I had no intention of skipping work, but unfortunately, I may not be able to come to work for a while. I don’t know when I will be back. I am in my car, and the year for me is 1941. I hope to return, but if I do, how much time will have passed? There is no telling. I hope that when I return, I can resume my position. Please respond to this email because I need the confirmation that I am able to send and receive email to the future.
Sincerely,
Washington Business Sakanah

Biz just sat there for a while, his car still parked on the side of the road. He realized that they would need a place to stay. He was also nervous that his boss wouldn’t get his email, or that he wouldn’t believe it, so he took a picture to send to the future as well.

How is precious memory defined? If all your memories are bad, are you just ineligible for this exchange?