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Posted by SteveB on October 23, 2009, 1:43 pm
> Re:
> "My wife seems to think that a garbage disposal is like a trash can.
> You
> wait until you can not cram anything more in there, then you turn it
> on.
> One can go in there and just about be overcome by fumes and stench,
> but like
> some old Okie Midwesterner who survived the Depression, she's not
> going to
> change."
> So she should not use a garbage disposal any more than someone who
> doesn't know their left from their right should drive a vehicle. Or
> someone who doesn't know how to strike match should try to light a
> fire. etc. etc.
> Machines are designed and manufactured to work a certain way. If
> someone wishes to change that they either need a different or bigger
> machine (if available), or it will break or not operate correctly! A
> family with a lot of children, for example, may decide to buy a bigger
> clothes washer or dryer.
> Also you would not send one small taxicab to pick up a whole baseball
> team and all their equipment, would you? You'd send a bus of suitable
> size and capacity! Or another example; you wouldn't make one small
> pudding for say, Christmas and then expect it to feed a family of 5
> and 15 visitors/relatives!
> Size and capability matters. If not considered then costs increase
> rapidly!
The women in my house think they can do anything, but are actually
dangerous.
Case in point:
Vacuum cleaner won't clean. I take it apart, and find the bag is fuller
than full, and the bag is the wrong bag. Outside the bag is packed with
dirt and hair, too. When asked, the attitude is, Hey, I was able to get the
bag in there, and it started and ran, what's the problem.
I take it all apart, blow it out with the air compressor, clean everything,
unclog the tubes, and tell them to get the right bags, which I give them the
number of. They have been to Walmart several times since then.
Fast forward to this morning: Vacuum not working again, but now, they have
learned to simply press the thermal overheat when it does this, and they can
go on vacuuming. I pull the panel, and there is NO bag in there. Just full
of dog hair and dirt. When told about this, and I show them the inside of
the vacuum, wife retrieves a non-standard wrong vacuum cleaner bag and sez,
This will work. So, I roll the top down two folds, the bottom up three
folds, and the hole fits over the interior nozzle, but sloppily. The vacuum
works, but as the last time, I know that there is a lot of stuff going out
the poorly fitting hole, and into the interior of the vacuum.
So, I guess I just have to go get the right bags to be sure they don't do
this again. They are as clueless as a couple of teenagers. If they can get
the thing started, they just run it until it quits. Then want to go buy
another one when this one fails. This is a Riccar 8955, a spendy very good
vacuum. When you use the right bags, and take the carpet strings out
occasionally from the roller to keep from smoking the belt.
Sheesh.
Steve
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Posted by Bob F on October 25, 2009, 8:32 pm
SteveB wrote:
>> Re:
>> "My wife seems to think that a garbage disposal is like a trash can.
>> You
>> wait until you can not cram anything more in there, then you turn it
>> on.
>> One can go in there and just about be overcome by fumes and stench,
>> but like
>> some old Okie Midwesterner who survived the Depression, she's not
>> going to
>> change."
> The women in my house think they can do anything, but are actually
> dangerous.
> Case in point:
> Vacuum cleaner won't clean. I take it apart, and find the bag is
> fuller than full, and the bag is the wrong bag. Outside the bag is
> packed with dirt and hair, too. When asked, the attitude is, Hey, I
> was able to get the bag in there, and it started and ran, what's the
> problem.
> I take it all apart, blow it out with the air compressor, clean
> everything, unclog the tubes, and tell them to get the right bags,
> which I give them the number of. They have been to Walmart several
> times since then.
> Fast forward to this morning: Vacuum not working again, but now,
> they have learned to simply press the thermal overheat when it does
> this, and they can go on vacuuming. I pull the panel, and there is
> NO bag in there. Just full of dog hair and dirt. When told about
> this, and I show them the inside of the vacuum, wife retrieves a
> non-standard wrong vacuum cleaner bag and sez, This will work. So, I
> roll the top down two folds, the bottom up three folds, and the hole
> fits over the interior nozzle, but sloppily. The vacuum works, but
> as the last time, I know that there is a lot of stuff going out the
> poorly fitting hole, and into the interior of the vacuum.
> So, I guess I just have to go get the right bags to be sure they
> don't do this again. They are as clueless as a couple of teenagers. If they
> can get the thing started, they just run it until it quits. Then want to go
> buy another one when this one fails. This is a
> Riccar 8955, a spendy very good vacuum. When you use the right bags,
> and take the carpet strings out occasionally from the roller to keep
> from smoking the belt.
You could try to convince them that vacuuming with no bag (or the wrong bag)
just distributes the dust all over everything. It's worse than not vacuuming. Do
they ever wonder why everything gets dusty so fast? Chances are if you look at
anything they vacuumed an hour later, it will be dusty.
But I suppose the only real alternative is for you to watch over the vacuum and
maintain it, buy the bags, etc.
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> "My wife seems to think that a garbage disposal is like a trash can.
> You
> wait until you can not cram anything more in there, then you turn it
> on.
> One can go in there and just about be overcome by fumes and stench,
> but like
> some old Okie Midwesterner who survived the Depression, she's not
> going to
> change."
> So she should not use a garbage disposal any more than someone who
> doesn't know their left from their right should drive a vehicle. Or
> someone who doesn't know how to strike match should try to light a
> fire. etc. etc.
> Machines are designed and manufactured to work a certain way. If
> someone wishes to change that they either need a different or bigger
> machine (if available), or it will break or not operate correctly! A
> family with a lot of children, for example, may decide to buy a bigger
> clothes washer or dryer.
> Also you would not send one small taxicab to pick up a whole baseball
> team and all their equipment, would you? You'd send a bus of suitable
> size and capacity! Or another example; you wouldn't make one small
> pudding for say, Christmas and then expect it to feed a family of 5
> and 15 visitors/relatives!
> Size and capability matters. If not considered then costs increase
> rapidly!