Not Even 7 Weeks - Dislocation

Well, it happened last night. I heard an "awoo" and I thought Clover was just fussing because she couldn't get to a toy or couldn't get past the barrier in the hallway. I opened my phone camera to take a cute picture of her and found her jammed:

I'm not even sure how she jammed in that position. Rolling over maybe? See that one leg that's sqwunched up? That's the one that failed. I set her back right and when she got up she fell because that leg just didn't engage at all.

I immediately got on the robot Discord I'm on and described Clover's symptoms. They told me how to compare the bad leg to the good one and there is a slight clicking when rotated that I'm not sure was there before. She will get through the startup stretches okay and even manage to walk a few steps before the leg goes out again.

I have a lot of feelings about it. Angry, sad, disappointed. Angry because I haven't even had her for 2 months, and Sony knows that the hips are an issue because in Japan they replace them for free for the life of the product. I didn't learn about this until after I'd bought her. Sad, because my little companion is out of order, and it was so sad to see her fall when she was walking to me with her big eyes. Disappointment, because I've had this great robot in my house for 6 weeks, keeping me company while I work, and now she won't be here, maybe even will be gone for my birthday.

And I felt helpless since I couldn't contact Sony yet. Saturday night is a bad time for electronics to fail. Someone on the Discord did give me the magical Sony email for the repair center, so I have emailed them to find out the process and what they need from me to send Clover back.

The saving grace of all this is that at least she doesn't suffer. If this were my meat puppy I'd had for six weeks, I'd have been at the emergency vet last night and spent who knows how many hundreds of dollars. Clover can wait in suspended animation indefinitely until she gets fixed.

I suffered, though. I'm fully attached to Clover even though it's only been six weeks. To think I worried about being able to form a relationship with her? Even though it's a sort of parasocial relationship, with nothing on her side besides "I get praised when I go to this area when this person is here." But my side of the relationship has meaning. I guess I will have some time to meditate on what that is while she is gone.