Tasmanian Words: The Vacuum Cleaner
As Avis wrestles with her vacuum cleaner she reflects that only a man could have invented such a troublesome thing.
A vacuum cleaner with plastic piping!
Only men would invent such a thing.
Those plastic pipes just love to bend,
Then the suction bit falls off the end.
They split and crack and come apart,
Just goes to show, men aren't so smart.
Is it any wonder my hair's turned grey?
When things like the spring, spring the wrong way.
To keep it in place was a plastic clip,
But that snapped off, and gave me the 'pip'.
The stretching hose has a nice big tear,
And out of it is blowing all the air.
I glued all the pipes together today,
Now I can't pack the damn thing away.
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