A Detour Is Not an Error
■ The question had nowhere to go inside a single task Hakobukun escorts a newly admitted patient to his room along a registered route. Partway there he asks where the restroom is. The reply is the same line, twice over. The guidance task was one unbroken line, with no slot for anything else.
■ People do not move in straight lines A stop at the shop, a washroom, a neighbor met in passing. Small interruptions arrive constantly between departure and arrival. Guidance that assumes none of them collapses at the first detour, because it was designed around a map line, not a walk.
■ Conclusion: Pausing is a precondition for finishing He found it himself; the robot waited in place, unable to say so. What the engineer had missed was something everyone does daily. Afterward, pause and resume entered the design. A route that forbids detours is not guidance. It is an escort.
