Within 12 hours of posting my complaint about the dearth of Hoover bags in Wandsworth, I’d had an email from a choreographer, and another from a systems analyst in Australia. The first just said ‘…John Lewis’, the second was a sympathetic tale of similar suction-woe down under.
I grudgingly considered the journey to John Lewis, but then I remembered a vacuum cleaner repair shop in Webb’s Road that seems to have been deposited by aliens from a kinder, more customer-friendly decade. And it’s more or less on the way to work. And it was open at 9.00am. And sure enough, the words ‘Telios 1700’ were hardly off my tongue before the man behind the counter produced the goods.
If only the man who invented USB ports could have advised the vacuum cleaner industry, the world would be a happier place. If you’ll forgive the truism, vacuum cleaners suck.
