Sensitive people

KEY

girl → otter

crying → floating on the water

safe → dangerous

house → lakeshore

sensitive people → venomous flies

what hasn't been explained → apprehension

feel ashamed → think about the flies

STORY

The girl is crying. But crying is safe here. It's safe because the house is populated by sensitive people. Sensitive people can detect what hasn't been explained. They have a special set of antennae for that. Do not feel ashamed, girl. To feel ashamed while crying would threaten your happiness for the rest of your life. Crying, if you don't feel ashamed, can be good for you. But you do feel ashamed. You've gone and done it. The sensitive people are coming to you now.

Hardware

Stand in your garage and strike at the metal block with an axe until you have hacked off a small pile of shards. Do this with several conductive metals, such as copper and aluminum, until you've created a mulch. Lather the mulch with a silicon gel, and then transfer it to a bucket.

Smear the mixture over your dead electronics with a wire brush, or, if you must cover an especially great volume, connect it to a high-powered hose. Collect batteries of all types, and begin firing them into the mass. You may want to hire a pitcher.

After three to ten days, your dead equipment should begin to sizzle, and a vibration will emanate from the pile. At the first sign of this activity, no later and absolutely no sooner, drag your mulch in a heavy trail from the pile to your front door. Within a few weeks, you will awake to find the electronics lined up at your threshold, waiting for your instructions.