Having Fun on a Friday Night

Ah, Friday night. The picture says it all: Heather is cleaning her car (sheesh, all I did was drive it to work and back..), Isabelle is pushing Aubree around in the stroller with Nala in the bottom. The trunk is open because I got my shiny new lawn mower out and started mowing (sure, girls have fun, boys do all the work). The vacuum Heather is holding in her hand is my "Rhino" vac, not to be confused with the super duper "Tiger Shark" vacuum one would pay for in an infomercial. Anyway, I take great pride in my Rhino Vac as I found it with Dad one day while perousing Home Depot and payed a whopping 9 bucks for it. What a steal!! So Heather is cleaning her car with my Rhino and all the while she is complaining how it doesn't suck very good (what?! This is the super-sucking Rhino Vac, she must be mistaken!) and after about 20 min or so I walk over to her and she can't get it to turn on anymore (hmmm, maybe my Rhino is just sleeping a bit?). So I ask her when she emptied the vac last and got a disturbing answer "huh? nope, didn't do that yet". I then emptied vast quantities of car dust out of my vac and found the filter was completely clogged (Mr Dyson would have been proud of this clogged filter). I showed Heather the warning on the back of the Rhino which states "Do NOT run the Vac for longer than 3 min with a clogged filter!" alas, it is too late. The Rhino is DEAD now... sigh. What a lousy waste of 9 bucks. Moral here: You get what you pay for, or; Don't let Heather operate a clogged Rhino.


Having fun outdoors on a Friday night