A crossing guard.
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If one side has one, the other side has to get one. Once launched, they cannot be recalled. When they land, they screw up everything forever.
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It said Nah, I'm traveling light.
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Two… one to tell the engineer to do it, the other to say "I don't know, what do you think?"
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To prevent clients from being billed twice for essentially the same service.
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