I'm a little sad today. A dream has ended. A little dream I like to call....Scooby.
It all started a week or so ago when I was perusing Amazon's Friday Sale. I do this most Fridays (for fun - but that's another blog) and I came across this thing called a Scooba. It's a kissin' cousin of the famous irobot "Roomba", the robotic vacuum that takes care of the floors while you sleep, work, watch Food Network...whatever. The geniuses at iRobot finally realized that vacuuming is not the bane of most women's existence....it's mopping. So, they invented the Scooba, which is a robot that WASHES and SCRUBS your floors for you! It is (hold on, I don't want to overstate this) THE BEST INVENTION EVER. I shared this exciting discovery with Spencer and we continued to read up on it(we had never heard of it) and at some point that evening, Spencer's brain was overtaken by an alien evidenced by the next phrase out of his mouth, "Let's get it."
After much anticipation and daydreaming about coming home from errands and finding freshly scrubbed floors, we received it. I about bowled over the poor UPS guy. We charged it and let it loose the next day. What happened next was heartwrenching. Poor Scooba. It wasn't made for our thick, Mexican tile with deep grout areas. It was continually getting stuck, although it makes such a cute "uh-oh" sound that it was hard to be too mad. I had to rescue it (by tapping it) about 10 times as it made its way around our dining room/kitchen. It tried. It spun its wheels, went over extra dirty areas, tried and tried again. But our floor would not relent.
It has taken me a 5 days to let go of the dream I didn't even know existed 2 weeks ago. The only comfort I take is that Scooby is going to a good home. I let the Bennages borrow it, since they seem to have the ideal flooring situation for it. They decided to take him in and give him a good home. Don't worry...I told Ellie he went to nice family with a big farm out in the country where he could wash and scrub free without getting stuck.
I'm going to write the iRobot people and tell them it's time for an AWD Scooba. (Sigh....)
