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From:  kantti |
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October 16th, 2006 06:42 pm (UTC)
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Not direct experience, no. I try and avoid vacuum cleaners. But I have related pressure cooker experience. Some time ago, rather before I was born, my mom bought a pressure cooker. At the same time she bought a replacement gasket for it, for when the original one died. My dad felt this was completely foolish and unnecessary, and I think they had a bit of an argument over it.
Some time later they got divorced. Not over the gasket, it must be added.
Then, some twenty five years later, the gasket on the pressure cooker wore out, and so my mom triumphantly got the spare one out of the cupboard and said "Ha! I was right and your father was wrong, I did need the replacement gasket." You can tell something about my mom from the fact she can find pressure cooker gaskets twenty five years after storing them away.
The sad end to the story, though, is that it was actually my dad who was right, because the new gasket was pretty much as deteorated as the old one. So, should you keep your vacuum belts for twenty five years, they'll be no use to you, take it from me.
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