Chapter II: A different story, with somewhat similar consequences, but very puzzling this time.

For many years Bo's little factory was working very well and 'things" were moving nicely.






Until one day, total Chaos took over Jo's nice little factory.

Bo gave his orders just as before. But, sometimes they worked very well and other times with no good reason nothing happened or "things" were moving but very inefficiently.

Bo remembered, that his friend Jo's factory was once attacked by aliens who abducted some of the Ao's. He remembered that Jo told him of his excellent idea-making the magic pieces of paper last longer.

So, even those this was a little different, Bo now did the same. And this little trick seemed to work, but to his surprise sometimes it worked very well (just like it did for Jo) but other times instead of all the Mos working together there was total Chaos. Some would work very hard while others would just rest doing nothing. And then "things" hardly moved despite the Mo's putting a lot of energy. And then the Mo's which worked were so tired that the few who could still work could really do nothing.






Bo decided that this is the time to call the police, because he can't do much on his own.

The police came on a very good day, in which everything went smoothly. They were angry at Joe for calling them and explained that they are busy taking care of important problems and don't have time to fool around.

But Bo didn't give up. He knew there were days in which things weren't moving as they should, so after a while he called them back again. This time they too could see the chaos. They did some investigations and told Bo that they could not find any problem. None of the Ao's were missing, so there was no reason for things not to work properly.

We are sorry, they said, we thought it could be another case of abduction by aliens, but we were wrong. You will have to figure it out on your own. Maybe you just didn't train your Ao's properly. You have to better organize your factory. People here seem to be very lazy.

And Bo had to admit that they were right. Most of the Mo's were sleeping most of the time. For a short while, it would seem that all is in order again. His orders went through. The Ao's passed them to the Co's and those put fuel in the little machines and the Mo's did their work.

Sometimes making the magic papers last longer seemed to make the work more efficient, but other times it seemed to do the opposite. It seemed as if the Ao's were abducted by aliens for a very brief period and then put back again in their place. So, when they were missing the longer lasting magic papers worked very well, but then when they suddenly came back it created enormous chaos because too many Ao's were working at the same time, leading to disorganized orders to the poor Co's (who didn't have time to rest) and the poor Mo's who were so exhausted by now that they could hardly do their work any more.

Bo knew that he had an excellent team of workers. He was not ready to accept the police's criticism. He knew they were very obedient and never lazy. In fact they even won a prize a few years before.

He called the policeman again. By now they were impatient and angry, as "things" were moving even if a bit more slowly than they should. Look, they said-stop wasting our time. We told you before there is noting wrong. You just have lazy and in-obedient people working for you. If you bother us one more time with your nuisance we will file a complaint against you for interfering with police work.