I told you how excited I was about my new Roomba vacuum, right? Now I can go back to cleaning my floors more than once a week (just kidding, I really do clean more than once a week). But this new roomba has some “new and improved” features that I’m not so sure about.
I push the little start button, for example, and the roomba says to me (yes, it talks!) “Please remove and clean roomba’s brushes.”
Um, excuse me? You are a vacuum. A tool. I don’t want you telling me what to do, here, just get busy and clean the floor!
But what do I do? I remove and clean the brushes. I don’t want to make it mad at me and not do any work, now do I?
So I don’t know if I like the “talking back” feature. I get enough of that from my kids, for heaven’s sake. Next thing you know, I’ll push start to get it to vacuum, and it’ll start giving me wardrobe advice, “Are you really going to wear that shirt with those pants? Did you not have time to do your hair this morning?”
All right, already! Shut up and vacuum!
Just wait until it starts to roll its eyes at you… 🙄
Oh, yeah. That’s all we need–appliances that roll their eyes at us.
So, it talks in the third person – kinda like Bob Dole!
Just kidding. I get enough back talk from my kid (and the general public, come to think of it) – I don’t need it from an appliance!
Wow, that would be…weird. A talking vacuum. Who’da thought!