Captcha Hell

Date: 12/30/2017

By dion_spyro

I had an idea of a song to write on a professional music software but I couldn’t open it in Demo mode which is the only one I had. I decided to just give logging in a go, even though I wasn’t sure I had an account. I entered a password I usually use and then it auto filled my username. Then I had to go through a series of strange Captchas. It said the answer at the bottom of the page sometimes but other times it would give a completely wrong answer. One of the Captchas was the transcript of a massive speech by a public speaker who had invented an environmentally friendly fan. It looked like a cube of jelly. The transcript had gaps in it and we had to fill it in based on what he said. Eventually he was joined by another speaker, she carried on with what he was saying. Then an old lady in the audience walked up and carried on the speech. She was then told by the two public speakers to get off the stage because she wasn’t one of the speakers. It was clear she thought anyone could just get up and give an anecdote. I decided to buy one of the fans and it arrived like instantly. It was so weird and gelatinous but still blew a solid stream. I couldn’t see where the air was coming from. The speaker told us a story about how he used to be a pirate and he once saw this kid on the ship who started running away from him so he chased them all around the ship until the kid jumped off and was never seen again.