I often talk to socks

Interview with Teoderic Valo, a young businessman. Teoderic is a cat and lives with his father.

You've already told me before the interview that you trade with socks and stockings. Why did you decide to have such a business?

Oh, oh, I don't know. I love socks. I love them. They are the nicest part of the wardrobe. They are magical, very magical. And I love magic.

What is the magic of socks like?

Socks can make you walk without tiredness, and they heal you very well, and they influence your emotions, and give you good advice verbally. I often talk to socks.

So the socks and stockings are your creations? How do you make them?

I make them, I sew them, and I knit them, and sometimes I cut them out of big materials. And I add ornaments, different ones. And some I make loose, and some I make tight, both socks and stockings.

Is your business profitable?

Very much, yes, thank you. I earn a lot. Everybody buys my socks, they love them. People are proud of them.

Who do you sell to, who are your customers?

Other animals, different kinds of animals, and the dog society is a very good client. But normal people don't buy them because they can't see them. Every animal is... Every animal's life is invisibilised for people, actually all animals are, entirely. People have robots, robotic copies of animals, and they don't know it.

I know cats, the cat society, they do a lot to make their robotic copies good for people.

Yes. Yes, we work together, we cats, to make sure our robots don't hurt anybody and that they are nice. All animals are invisibilised, people are left alone, it's horrible. People who did it don't like animals, they hate animals, they want animals to be like the robots they built. They hate real animals because they talk and dance and read and write, and so on. They hate it. They prefer the robots, the mafia. And they forced everybody to have contact only with robotic animals. Luckily they are loving and caring for people, because even robots are humans. So we like them, we cats.

So, coming back to your business, you trade on the animal market?

Yes, I sell to animals mainly. But animals are of different types. Trees are also animals, and rocks, and cars. I make my socks and stockings in different sizes and different cuts, so everybody can buy them.

Are there any other markets where you could sell your products apart from the animal market?

Well, there is a market for ghosts, where I don't sell and I wish I could, it would be wonderful. Then there is the underwater market, and I don't sell there either, even though sirens would love my stockings, so it's a pity. And there is a dwarf market, a mountain market, and that's horrible that I can't sell there either. There are many divisions between species and territories, they were made by terrorists who wanted to separate everybody from everybody.

Do you know how many different currencies are in the world outside of the ordinary human society?

We have a currency, we cats, sirens have a currency, country of Atlantis has a currency, dwarves have their own currency, trees don't, they use the currency of Free People, that's what it's called, but we cats use our own, it's called Kitten Dollar. 

Ok, that's a lot, that's a lot to know. Is Free People currency most popular among animals?

Yes. It is Free People Franks. And most of magical creatures including animals use them. Actually everybody uses them, so they are most important.

Would you like to expand your business in the future, or is it good as it is?

Yeah, I just want to sell to really everybody, so I want to expand my trade, not the product offer, because it's huge as it is.

I know you live with your father. Was it always like that?

Yes, I've lived with him entire life. Entire life. I love him very much. He is a musician and he is not paid for his musical work, and I hate the criminals who caused it.

I know cats are very attached to their parents and it's a part of cat culture, is that right?

Yes. All cats find it a duty to take care of their parents. I take care of my dad always. My robot is not living with him currently, but I do, and he can't see me, but he knows I'm with him.

What's your biggest dream nowadays?

To be visible to my daddy, that's first. And to spend time with him doing my hobbies and his hobbies. And that's it.

Thank you for the interview.

Thank you very much!

21 October 2020

Interview no. 3