Posted by noa on February 3, 2004, at 13:02:45
In reply to Re: Laziness is unbecoming » noa, posted by allisonm on February 2, 2004, at 14:04:15
>Today I am in a quandary. I have a Snapple cap on my desk that says that it is a "Real Fact" that licking a stamp burns 10 calories. Yet, when I went halfway around a round on the exercise machine, it said I'd only burned 38 calories. How could that be when licking four stamps would not make me so terribly out of breath? Somebody is lying here... I hope it is the exercise machine.
ROFL!!!!
>I started being more descriminating in what I shredded because I got tired of having to keep emptying the stupid bin. (Talk about lazy...)
Not lazy...emptying the bin is actually a skilled task! It's not just emptying like emptying any old bin. You have to try to get it in the bag without having the little shreds fly all over the room! After I emptied it the other day, my floor was a mess!
It's kind of like trying to clean the filter on the vacuum cleaner. I mean, someone in vacuum cleaner design business has a sadistic streak about them, don't you think? OK, so you take the filter out of the cannister. Empty the cannister into the garbage bag--ok, so far so good. But then, have a look at the filter and all its little crenelations and folds and all and how the dust is now not just dust but rather a more CLINGY substance that seems to have taken up in the folds like some kind of colony of living creatures or something, so now you have to actually BANG the filter to loosen the dust colonies, but of course, you have to try to hold the filter inside the trash bag while trying to hold the mouth of the bag closed in order to seal in the dust. OK, so it's like a three-hander, this task, but I only got two, right. OK, so bang bang. Loose dust is a determined little creature and it finds the little crack in the opening of the bag--oh, and did I mention that in order to do this maneuver, one's own hand and half of one's arm need to be INSIDE the trash bag? But little dust particles--they manage to find the hole in the seal, they do. So dust comes FLYING out into my face and all over the room that I just vacuumed! Then, to make matters worse, I check the filter and see that not only is my forearm covered in clingly dust particles, but the amount of dust colony that got loosened from the filter is highly negligible!! And what makes all of this rather flabbergasting is that the vacuum companies' advertisements seem to accentuate the fact that these vacuum cleaner models are "bag-free"!!! I never did the bag type of cleaner, so maybe it has its own drawbacks (I seem to have vague childhood memories of my mother wrestling with the vacuum bag), but I gotta tell you, the bag free version isn't so great, either.....
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