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The Underrated Power of a Vacuum Cleaner
I Guess We Can Learn a Lot From Buying An Appliance
9 min readFeb 16, 2021
My friend’s vacuum doesn’t work so she calls the only local shop that repairs her brand. On the phone the guy tells her that he also repairs laptops and collects antique coins, so if she has any of those she should bring them in. She asks me if I want to come with. I was going to stay home and write but this adventure strikes me as astonishingly more interesting than several hours alone with my thoughts and a blinking cursor. His…