Funny Incidents With Robot Vacuum Cleaners

You might be the kind of person who likes to find the easiest and fastest way to get the job done. Why take an hour extra doing a job if you can finish it in less than half that time, right? People might call you lazy, but that’s just being smart. 

If there’s an easier way of doing something, why break your back for no reason?

Take vacuuming, for example. Vacuuming is a job most people don’t have any love for, and for a good reason. What’s there to enjoy about pushing around an annoying piece of machinery with one hand while you use the other to try to plug your ears from the god-awful noise? 

Sure, it beats traditional cleaning with a feather duster and stuff, but, again, if there’s an easier way of doing something, why break your back?

 Fortunately, there is an easier way: robot vacuum cleaners. You’ve probably already heard of them—they’re all the rage. And incredibly, they’re amazing. Probably, you even have a set or witnessed their awesomeness somewhere. 

That’s good; you should hold onto that image for the next part. It’ll make it all the more hilarious.

Vacuum Misadventures

Most people see robot vacuum cleaners as a godsend. And they are when you’re trying to get rid of those dust bunnies that seem to pop up everywhere; or when the carpet acquires a stain that bleach won’t solve.

When manual cleaning methods just won’t cut it, we send it to the robot. And that’s all well and good. But what happens when the robot vacuum does its job a little too well? 

Don’t understand what I mean? Here are a couple of stories of some Vacuum Misadventures:

When Shit Hits the Robot…Literally:

We’ve all had that kind of black-out nap where we’re dead to the world for a couple of hours. Ever notice that you always get woken up by a ridiculous thing whenever that happens? 

Well, check this out.

A guy’s in bed, snoozing away after a hard day at work or something when he perceives the smell of poop. He shrugs it off; weird things happen in dreams, right? The smell gets stronger and stronger until the guy can’t ignore it anymore and wakes up.

And the poor guy almost falls off the bed. His toddler is snuggled up to his side, the child’s whole body covered in poop. What the hell, right? Well, those were his thoughts exactly. The dude hops off the bed and follows the smell to its source (s): his robot vacuum cleaner and dog.

A little detective work reveals that his dog had made a doo-doo right when his vacuum cleaner woke up from charging. In a show of impeccable timing, the cleaner vacuums both poop and dirt together and zooms around the house, trailing its ‘contents.’

If that were all, this story would still be worth telling, but it gets better (or worse, depending). In another show of bad luck, your toddler chooses that moment to follow the trail of poop around the house before going to snuggle with his father.

From there, you can guess the father’s agony, having to clean first the child, then the robot, and then the house after discovering that robots and water don’t mix well.

Poor guy!

The One about Drunk Robot Cleaners

You’re probably asking yourself, “How in the world can robot vacuum cleaners get drunk?”

Well, it turns out the problem was from the manufacturers. As the story goes, the manufacturer pushed a software update to the “brains” of the robots. Maybe the in-house developers that did the update had a little too much to drink the night before because shortly after the update gets pushed, customers start complaining of robot vacuum cleaners acting drunk.

Again: how do vacuum cleaners behave drunk? Imagine your vacuum cleaner starts spinning on the spot, moves around in a zig-zag fashion, stops, moves, revolves around a bit, and then shuts down. 

I’m sure you get the picture. Have fun trying to get it out now.

Terrible Wake-up Calls:

This story is a classic example of when robot vacuum cleaners do their job too well. In this one, a lady decides to take a nap on her floor, completely innocent-like. After about half an hour, her vacuum cleaner, according to its program, activates and gets to work. 

Unfortunately, the robots aren’t so street smart as to differentiate between loose hair and, well … you know, a head of hair. 

In this way, the faithful robot works, sucking up the lady’s hair. Yikes. After a couple of minutes, she was able to wrestle the machine off and call for some help, but by then, she had a bald spot that would probably be a pain to cover up with traditional wigs.

There’s probably a lesson in there somewhere.

Anyway, aren’t you glad you held that image to your head now?

Of course, none of this means that robot vacuum cleaners are not the best thing since liquid soap. All these stories show that they’re so good at their job that they need to be toned down somewhat.

But it makes you think. If software updates could mess up robots and make them behave a certain way, what if they begin to spy on you tomorrow or join an army of other evil robots trying to take over the world from humankind?

Or what if…? Nah, it’s probably nonsense.

And even if it wasn’t, as long as they help you cut down what would typically be an hour of cleaning to quarter that; allow you the time to spend on more important stuff like your family, and still keep your house looking the best on the block, does it matter all that much?

All the Best!

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