We have a new Dyson - a small version to cleanup daily messes in our kitchen. Wife uses it the other day in the living room and then comes in because ‘it stopped working and it told her to rinse the filter’. Ok, odd as it’s brand new and our house isn’t that dirty. Fine. Maybe that’s normal.
Walk in to the living room and am hit with an overpowering perfume stench. When asked what she did, she said she used this Arm&Hammer rug deodorizer. So, that baking powder overloaded the Dyson.
After using our usual canister vacuum the room still reeks so strongly I cannot sit in there. The next day I change out the canister bag and am trying again with the vacuum. She admits she ‘went heavier than normal’ with this stuff.
I move a piece of furniture and tip over a small bowl of liquid. It smells like vinegar. Walking into the kitchen to get towels to clean up the mess I ask her about it - ‘that’s what they said to do’. Never mind who they are. Not sure how a static bowl of liquid is going to fix this stench. Ok. Dry up the spill and keep working.
Move a chair and, you guessed it, knock over another bowl of vinegar.
‘Goddamn it! Are they any other bowl in here I need to know about?’
She comes in and removes two more which I surely would have knocked over. Why this thought did not occur to her before…