Wed, 07 Jul 2004
Toilet humour
So of course, this morning I decided to do the monthly total litter
tray overhaul -- which consists of completely emptying out the
sievable litter tray and re-filling it with about
five kilos of expensive-but-worth-it premium clumping litter.
And half an hour later the doorbell
rings! Yes, you guessed it: it was the
Littermaid.
At first sight, the Littermaid looks weird, sort of like
a cross between a tank landing craft and a Robot Wars
also-ran -- the urge to paint red and yellow go-faster stripes
on its side is well-nigh irresistible. So far, the cats are treating it
with mild confusion ("help! Where'd the toilet go?") ... but
I'm sure they'll figure it out in time. Which has now got me
very worried indeed, for one very important reason: it sounds
like a tank landing craft with
lubrication difficulties making its way through a railway
stockyard. It is, not to put
too fine a point on it, deafening. And while this might work
okay in a huge mid-western split-level ranch-style house
sprawling across six acres of virgin desert, it's a lot
less okay in cramped old Blighty;
due to the lack of space in my flat, it's going to
have to live in the hall passage beside the
bathroom door, about fifteen feet from my right ear when I'm
lying
in bed.
When the cats
begin to use the Littermaid, my first warning will be a loud
rumbling, creaking noise accompanied by metalic squeaking and
a light artillery bombardment to soften up the beach-head -- at
about four o'clock in the morning.
I originally seeded comments about this gadget under "toys",
but I'm beginning to think "superfluous technology" would have
been a better place for it.
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