"Really? You're the second girl I met lately who's into it. Your family doesn't run a professional bakery, does it?" Because that really would be a coincidence.

The previews had begun, and onscreen a human skull was crushed under the foot of a skeletal-looking robot shooting lasers and stalking past a store display. On its elbow, the robot carried several large paper shopping bags.

"Chopping Mall," the narrator was saying. "Where shopping costs you an arm and a leg!"