So this morning I was to vacuum the house. I started out in the first bedroom and before even a minute has passed, I’ve sucked up a sock that was lying around. I’m like no problem, turn off the vacuum, open it, take out the vacuum dust bag (or whatever it’s called) but the sock isn’t there. Shit. So then I detach the long pipe (again I don’t know the anatomy of a vacuum cleaner so please bare with me) and what I see is the sock stuck at the very end of pipe near where it is inserted into the vacuum cleaner itself. Unfortunately, the opening decreases in size when it reaches this end and the sock is stuck too far from reach of my hand. Although I have an extremely skinny hand it’s just no skinny enough. Well that sucks but I had to get that damn sock out. So I tried connecting the pipe again and turning it on but the sock wouldn’t budge and I was afraid I’d break the vacuum cleaner or something because it wasn’t sucking well. I thought about getting some really long object to try and push the sock out the way it came in and then realized I have nothing that long since a tape-measure just wouldn’t do. I felt stumped.
And then I realized just how stupid I had been. I could try sucking the sock out by sticking the pipe the other way in. Obviously the other end didn’t fit into the hole in the vacuum cleaner but I tried as best I could. It worked – sort of. I now had the sock in the other end of the pipe but still a tad too far from my hand’s reach. So I go into the bathroom and get a pair of tweezers and tug the sock out. Phew, what a relief. Anyway, I better go back to vacuuming now. Sorry for boring you with something so silly but this may help you if you ever have such an experience when you’re vacuuming.
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