It's currently 4AM in the morning, and I had a day planned. One of grocery shopping, my lesson, some driving… but right now, I'm struggling not to pull my hair out.
I went to plug in my vacuum cleaner and saw bite marks all over the cable and even where it plugs into the machine.
Now… Let's be up front. I have four vacuum cleaners, and they all serve different purposes.
My old Black+Decker is the third or so vacuum I'd purchased and unlike the ones that went to the dump, it worked. I still have it, but it's handheld so… yeah. My other Black+Decker is to literally rake cat fur out of carpeting.
I bought a Bissel carpet cleaner for the pets too… and ended up using it on my bed first, as my new kitten at the time was so excited to be in the room with me that she peed all over me. In my bed.
I had to replace my Dyson because the old one was getting to the point of feeling like it was on fire after about three minutes of use. The new vacuum is over twice the weight. Hauling a 7 ½ pound vacuum up to clear the stairs sounds way better than dragging a 16lb vacuum cleaner to do the same thing.
My latest one is named "Taylor Sweep," and does a fantastic job on the floor all on her lonesome. She's a Shark Robotic Vacuum.
… It's funny in a way. I used to think using a robotic vacuum was incredibly lazy, and what am I now doing?
Yeah.
It takes so much pressure off me working on the downstairs area. That thing cleaned my kitchen floors off so well, my head was in a tailspin.
Now… the cable that my lovely new boy-cat chewed on was for the Dyson.
You would think any other cables, maybe even to the Shark.
No, he had to pick the power cable of the most expensive vacuum cleaner that I own.
For reference, even with a $250 deductible, that vacuum was still over $500.
So…
I just stood there and stared at him… while he tried to appear innocent. The long black hair in the bitten areas betrayed who the culprit was.
So far, since he's been here… he has now chewed up a power cable, defecated on my cream-colored shrug… and I'm seriously debating just throwing it out and buying a new one because I'm horrified the poop stains will remain.
He also vomited in two spots in a three-minute span upstairs. At least… I hope it's vomit.
Not that I am a novice at cleaning poop off hard wood floors. Do I like it? Absolutely not, but when I remember who that back room used to be covered in carpet… Ugh.
~J. Lyst
I have ordered what I hope is an appropriate replacement from Amazon.com, so we'll see how it does. For now though? I slapped a lot of electrician's tape on the original cable and hope it holds until the new plug shows up.
Did I plug in my ridiculously expensive vacuum up to a severely damaged cable?
Yes…
… I do have fire alarms, so if something happens, I can jump out the upstairs window. But hopefully it all works, and I can get that vacuum back to 100%. I'm getting used to wielding it now, so I'm building upper body strength.
Now?
I'm going to post this up at what's currently 4:43AM in the morning and attempt to get up around 7am.
And do everything else I needed to do.
Am I going to check the vacuum before I go to sleep?
Yep.
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