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gadget man
February 01, 2010
Spent Saturday morning clearing off and clearing out the old fridge, so as to be ready when the delivery guys showed up. Fortunately, it was cold out--so we just loaded everything into storage totes and stuck it outside the back door. And after the truck came and went, and we had the groceries loaded into our shiny new Amana, we popped out to grab a bite of lunch at Culvers and run errands.
And since the new fridge, unlike the old one, has no water filter, Spouse decided he wanted to look into getting a new filter to fit onto the kitchen faucet. Since I was dead against it (I find them clunky, leaky, and always in one's way at the sink, and the replacement filters are expensive and inconvenient to purchase), of course he was just naturally burning to buy one.
Well, at least he got a nice one. It's an Insta-Pure, and the unit was only 14.99 at Menard's. And as these things go, the unit is pretty compact, it has a nice flow, the filter lasts a fair amount of time, and the replacement filters are fairly accessible and reasonably priced. I guess I can live with it.
I still think it's a waste, though�I may have felt the water needed filtering when we bought the place in 1993, and even back in 2002 when we purchased the old fridge�but the water quality has improved so much in the past few years that I really wasn't even bothering with the fridge filter for drinking water anymore.
And you would think that the new fridge and the new filter would have satisfied the gadget man�but you would be in error. There was one more gadget he just had to have: this soap dispenser.
Honestly. Why in the world does anybody need a ten-dollar soap dispenser that takes four double-AA batteries to operate, and only uses an overpriced, proprietary brand of hand soap which aggravates eczema and comes in three nasty, overpowering scents?
I wish he�d stop watching daytime television. He sees this shit and he just has to have it. He�s worse than Peg Bundy.
I think the slogan for this thing is "Never touch a germy soap pump again!"
Quite aside from the fact that "germy" isn't a real word,, can I just say that this appears to be a solution in search of a problem? If we were to truly examine the process, what would we find is the one thing pretty much everyone does after we pump the soap out of our filthy, disgusting, germy soap pump?
That�s right, boys and girls--we wash our hands.
Sigh. But as long as they can prey on the poor OCD types, or gadget-vulnerable buffoons like Spouse, I suppose we�ll keep seeing this kind of crap.
Reading: "Betty Gordon At Mountain Camp--Or, The Mystery Of Ida Bellethorne" by Alice B. Emerson. This is BG #5, and the last one I have. (copyright 1922)
Surfing: Ever since I was a little kid, rifling through Grandma's huge collection of old Reader's Digests, I've loved looking at old print ads.
Listening: Suzanne Vega, One Eskimo, Coldplay, Stephen Stills
At Random: click here
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