Friday, April 18, 2008

Do it yourself?

So I rang the vacuum cleaner experts and inquired as to the cost of a service. "How much?" So picking myself back up off the floor I inquired as to the cost of a new super duper booster head. "HOW MUCH?" So I fessed up to accidentally sucking up my daughters MP3 player (tragic) causing an awful whirring sound and he adds a couple more obscene dollars to the 'Quote'. "Couldn't I buy a new cleaner for that much?" So I thanked him profusely, hung up the phone and grabbed a screwdriver. "How hard can this be?" So I was momentarily distracted from my power of rational reasoning. I am no fix it yourself queen. (Well, there was that one time when I was moving house and had to get the oven door all cleaned up. The double glass had slipped and grease was trapped on the inside. I manically unscrewed ever screw and pulled out every shelf and ledge and glass and scrubbed away. Then I held my breath and put it all back together again. What a clever fella I am!). So based on that one success and completely ignoring all the other disasters I unscrewed every screw, removed every tube, hose and thingy bobby and fiddled away.

BIG MISTAKE!

So one hour later I had somehow managed to put the screws back in place ( completely ignored the odd shape). So I plugged it in and........ NOTHING. Not even the whirring sound.

OOPS!

1 comment:

Linds said...

Um, Mary, I think we could need some help here! I would unscrew it all and try again. You have nothing to lose!