I like hoovering/vacuming.

strobe · 17-09-2011 1:11am #1

So I was operating a vacuum cleaner earlier. Voluntarily. I get the impression that people don't like to hoover (from here on in vacuuming will be called hoovering, 'cause I'm just retro like that).

Why though? Hoovering is great. You can make all kinds of cool stuff out of the process (not to say the process it's self isn't cool). I mean first of all you get to control a lot of cool machines. I was working one a few days ago that had this special kind of swivel action. It was like skating on ice with skates made of soft butter. I'm talking slick, slick movement.

But also you can have so much fun. Like sometimes I pretend that controlling the hoover is a new futuristic mechanical sport. The object is that you have to clear a room of debris in as quick a time as possible. But the trick is you can't hit any of the obstacles, like chair legs, or stray floor lighters, or that thing below the mantle piece but out from the fireplace, ye know the thing? That thing yeah, you can't hit that. Otherwise it takes a score off you. Or maybe it blows up your hoover 'cause it's rigged with mines.

So you are holding the hoover waiting to go into the next room. Then you can hear the future sport commentator going all "Well he has been a good competitor so far. No one can deny him that. But since the injury, in the last universal championships, when his rig blew up...."

"He was the youngest hoover champ contender we have seen in a long long time... Of course his rival Zilo Starvac insisted the rig blow out was a result of Strobe equipping his hoover rig with dangerous unapproved upgrades. Strobe has denied this of course. But the rumours still remain.

So here we go ladies and gentleman! It's now or never for the outlander to prove once and for all if he has what it takes."

"Silence in the arena!!!! "

Start the hoover!!!!!

"It all comes down to this. One room, one man, one Hoov. The time he needs is 1:12. The current world record is 1:51. It can't be done... Can it?

Start!........... Your!................ Hoover!!!!!!

*VRooooooommmmmmm!!!!*

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So, to the point.

Is their anything most people don't like to do (like hoovering) that you think is kind of fun?