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by quantified 1741 days ago
> The surprise was the ruining of the surprise instead of the surprise itself.

Not confused, surprised. A hallmark of a butler is discretion. I hope you didn’t read that I was contradicting you or disagreeing? “Don’t spoil the suprise by divulging the nature of the package to the intended recipient” is beyond Alexa’s programming. For a butler, it wouldn’t even be a checkbox option, it would go without saying.