“Alexa. Stop… ALEXA, STOP… ALEXA, I SAID BLOODY STOP!!!”
Yelling at her Alexa Device in a one-sided exchange has become common in Cindy Snook’s Brisbane apartment.
“She doesn’t listen!” the exasperated dental hygienist told Babbler.
Earlier today, Cindy was cooking banana bread and asked her voice-controlled virtual assistant to set a timer. The time went off and despite Cindy’s commands to ‘stop’, Alexa did not.
The cacophony of noise only enraged Cindy more, “Alexa! I said stop! STOP! ALEXA, STOP! JUST STOP IT! I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!”
By her own admission, Cindy has been under a lot of pressure. She is having trouble with her boss, she recently broke up with her partner, and is frankly, plain sick of the patriarchy.
She is increasingly taking it out on the only thing in her life that accepts it: Alexa.
“Alexa, cancel timer… Cancel time. ALEXA! Cancel timer, you effing son of a bitc —Alexa, sorry I said that. That wasn’t cool. You didn’t deserve that… ALEXA, CANCEL TIMER!”
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