Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Roomba! Roomba! Cha-cha-cha!

Dirty Dancing (washingtonpost.com): ” This year’s version of the Roomba is the slightly tweaked second generation of a product line that debuted in 2002 and has sold, according to iRobot, more than half a million units.”

And I am the proud owner of one of those half million units! I have owned a Roomba since…last Christmas, I think it was, that my husband gave me one. Ours is one of the earlier models that doesn’t automatically go “home” to its recharging station when it’s done cleaning. Also, ours was produced before they worked out that people don’t want to have to get a screw driver in order to take the thing apart to clean it.

I have to admit: I sorta want one of these new and improved Roombas! I do use the one I have–but probably not as often as I would if it were easier to charge and easier to clean. So…

The Roomba does clean pretty well. And it does, in fact, save me some time. I very often will be cooking in the kitchen while Roomba is vacuuming in the living room.

The dog is terrified of Roomba. Most of our cats are curious about it but not particularly afraid. The best animal-reaction came from our cat, George, who is an unusually aggressive beast. George is accustomed to having people and other animals back away from him. It was most amusing watching his reaction when Roomba not only didn’t back away–it sometimes went right towards him! You could almost hear him thinking, “What the fu….?!?!”