March 3, 2007...12:20 pm
HOOVERING UNTIL YOUR HANDS BLEED?
Ah joy it’s Saturday and the distant drone of next doors vacuum cleaner has being going now for over 40 minutes and is likely to continue for at least the same amount of time. It’s definitely hoovering as I can hear it hitting the skirting board with monotonous regularity. It intrigues me greatly as to how somebody can hoover a place as small as ours for such a length of time and every other day to boot. I mean if they’re an Asthma sufferer then maybe it’s understandable though you’d think it’d be out with the carpets time if it was a really serious condition. I’m asthmatic and hoovering itself soon brings on the coughing and wheezing.I’m having another clutter clear and just moving things around soon brings my airways to a grinding halt. Luckily the phone never goes when I’m in that state or it’d be a less than pleasant experience for the caller as I wheezed like a noisy draft at them .I really am surprised that the vacuum cleaner doesn’t just burn itself out from over use. Very strange.
I wish I bumped into them more so I could engage in chit chat and cunningly drop the subject of dust or hoovering into the conversation just to see if I got some kind of compulsive nervous twitch out of one of them. I could just see me saying “dust” and one of them would launch into an overzealous mime of rabid hoovering whilst the other one tried to calm them down. One day, one day.
4 Comments
March 5, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Do you know if they have a pet? …. clutching & straws .. I know
March 6, 2007 at 7:56 am
Nice idea. No pets to my knowledge and it’s rented property so it would be unlikely they’d be allowed to keep a pet. It’s probably just that one of them is excessively house proud or fear of losing their deposit if the slightest blemish is found though by the length of time the hoover’s on, you’d think it alone would be wearing the carpets out.
Intriguing though (in a mundane mystery way).
March 7, 2007 at 11:01 pm
OK so it’s confession time. I have been known, on occasion (actually it wasn’t so much on occasion, more like anytime I went to hoover in the last place I lived), to take the bottom part of the hoover off and use the pipe bit only.
It’s an extreme action, I know. I was driven to it by a combination of crap hoover and very old carpet that needed the force to actually get cleaned. I would never hoover as often as your neighbour does though because it took my back at least a week to recover from the hoovering hell.
Any chance they have a crap old hoover and a crappier old carpet .. I mean, should we start a collection?
March 8, 2007 at 7:52 am
Well I do that myself for the hard to shift stuff and on the stairs. I guess if they’re employing that method for the whole house (wah!) then maybe it would take a long time (er…duh!). Both our micro-houses are pretty much identical and it takes me 20-30 mins tops to do the lounge room, kitchen stairs and bedroom so it intrigues me as to what’s going on in there.I know it’s in immaculate condition so the carpet’s not excessively worn. A collection is a keen idea. If I could seek out the equivalent of a hoover with a silencer fitted ie: the quietest but most efficient cleaner outside of a non motorised one then I could leave it anonymously on the doorstep at Xmas or appropriate birthday. It does’t bother me too much, just sends my imagination racing (which is not always a good thing).
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