One of the last minute things that we do here at home before company arrives is to clean the kitty litter box and then vacuum the carpets. The dogs and cat tend to leave tufts of fur around the house and if we vacuum the day before company arrives, by the time they get here it looks dirty again.
So, last night we were expecting company for dinner; arriving around 5. So at 4pm my wife cleans the litter box (which even though she puts the box on top of newspaper always ends up with a little bit of litter on the rug) and then gets out the vacuum cleaner. Wouldn’t you know it, the vacuum cleaner died. Simply died. I took it apart for her, thinking that I could fix it, but the motor is burnt out.
So my wife was very unhappy about that – she likes having the place as clean as possible when company comes over. But she was a trooper and got the carpet as clean as she could and never mentioned it to our company (why point out the dirt – they might not care or notice if you don’t make a big deal about it!) And supper came and went and nobody died. But I will be taking the vacuum cleaner to the repair shop first thing on Monday!