Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for December 08, 2024

Lego secretly funded by the appliance repair association.

Repairs? I wish. Mostly they tell you that it is not worth it to fix it and that you should just buy new.

When it was still business, a local store had a small engine parts and repair section. On the wall was a collection of bent, some severely, lawnmower blades. With captions like “I know that stump is out here somewhere.” and “Where did I leave that pile of angle iron?”.

Employee in the “Everything Else” window: “I can help someone over here who doesn’t have Lego damage.”

Everyone in line (together): “SHUT UP, MEG!”

This gag would also work with a podiatrist.

Be glad he did not step on it!

Christmas Return Window boarded up for a couple more weeks!!

When we had 4 pets it was pet hair clogs.

Just yesterday I saw a meme where a guy (of course it’s men doing this) is bare foot, walking quickly, on a tread mill whilst his buddies are pouring Lego’s on the ramp. Just nuttier than a fruit cake.

UGH! Why is it so hard to pick up your LEGO pieces after you’re done playing with them?

Vacuum parts??? Went on the Shark website looking for a replacement dirt canister. Clicked on ‘Vacuums’, typed in model and clicked, clicked on ‘Parts and Accessories’ and found only accessories and no parts. Contacted customer service and asked about a replacement dirt canister. Was told they don’t sell parts, just accessoies. Asked why they have a ‘Parts and Accessories’ tab on their website. Silence preveiled for a while and then was told they only sell accessories.

The last panel seems like it doesn’t fit with the baby blues style.

We love Legos and we never had that problem. You just need to put a sheet down on the floor and when you’re done building, the sheet gathers any lose pieces. We also kept a few empty clear plastic candy boxes to use as sorting trays.

Legos are the foundation of any economic society. They keep appliance manufacturers, doctors (stepping on and swallowing), and plumbers (sinks and toilets plugged) forever busy.

Which is why we bought a vacuum cleaner with all metal roller construction. It would chew those Lego’s to bits so we could throw them out with the rest of the dust and dirt.

My freezer, purchased in 1963, is still going strong. Appliances were made to last back then.

I always picked up my Legos so my parents never had this happen.

A good vacuum should not break down from sucking up a Lego™ brick, and if you run one over a conglomeration of them, blame yourself.

At least he’s vacuuming, many men wouldn’t dare do that”women’s work.”

In my day it was Jacks. Tiny metal Caltrop looking things.

I had a Hoover before the current Shark which had a plastic part go South, no parts replacement from anywhere and the vacuum cleaner was 3 years old. No Hoover in my future, crossing my fingers on the Shark. I mentioned plastic parts and a blow up by date.

Better the vacuum than your feet, Darryl.

The “Everything Else” window is for helping criminals escape from Albuquerque.

Parent’s do not have their kids pick up the Legos or them selves, before vacuum?

I have taken apart every vacuum cleaner we owned. The first time one broke it was due to a q-tip. That one had the motor burned up, so there was no saving it. I used to have really long hair, so I learned to take apart and clean the innards. I have seen where the hair was singed on the shaft of the roller. For years I wanted a Dyson…and then we got one. Those are nearly impossible to take apart. They want to force you to go to them to fix it. It didn’t even do the job fantastically better. I went back to Bissell. They sell every part on-line, even for models that were discontinued years ago. The only reason I needed to replace my Bissell was due to taking too long to put it back together. I fell ill and it sat in pieces for so long that I kind of forgot what went where. It was easier just to get a new one. Unlike Dyson’s the Bissells don’t require a bloody bank loan.

At least they have few other problems.

As least he didn’t trip on any.

Hey,Legos are small.They should get sucked up easily

And designed to fail! We used to think Kenmore was something you could buy and keep. But they then they changed to doing the wiring by metal films on plastic, and using plastic that had its plasticizers evaporate so it got brittle. Plastic breaks, vacuum motor gets no power and live connections are exposed, and the company quit selling replacement parts.

Years ago when my father in law was in stock control for GE, any new design for something like a vacuum cleaner had to include from engineering a list of all the parts with anticipated lifetime and failure mode for each, and plans for what and how many replacements to stock for each part, for decades to come. (Of course they then installed a company leader whose only goal was keeping stock prices high, and all of that disappeared.)