Dearly Devoted Rubie

I knew I had read it somewhere before. But where?? I remember a cartoon like illustration in the book and I remember Rodrigo Cardenas criticizing it, that means it must have been in grade school, but in what book? I have browsed the 5 reading books I still own, meaning that the story should be in the one I don't have. What a shame.

While reading Fahrenheit 451 I spotted the word "Pedestrian" and I immediately remembered. Can you imagine I was already reading Bradbury at grade school? Would you think that it had something to do with who am I today?

"The Pedestrian" is a short story where Ray Bradbury tells us about Leonard, a guy who lives in any given city in the year 2053 (dystopian future, of course). Crime is reduced and there's only the need for one police car, a robotic one. Norman takes a stroll at night, a thing he does regularly but he is spotted by the robotic patrol and since it doesn't understand the purpose of being a pedestrian arrests him.

They passed one house on one street a moment later, one house in an entire city of houses that were dark, but this one particular house had all of its electric lights brightly lit, every window a loud yellow illumination, square and warm in the cool darkness.
'That's my house,' said Leonard Mead.
No one answered him.

I remember that I used to drive all along Periferico, all around MX City when I was feeling down, for air, to see, just like Leonard.

If you'd like to read the story, take a look at this site.