I'm afraid this time around, the story didn't pull at my heart-strings as much as Resnick's last work with the paper tiger; the experience was much more tangible with feeling like an outcast, reconciling yourself with your mother. However, I must say that I did like how the story shifted gears at the end, how it resolved, how the main character came to realizations about himself.
The moral to this tail: When you're in a robotic factory and the power goes out, if you don't have a light, just sit down where you are and wait it out. (Of course, that wouldn't have made nearly as interesting a story, would it?)