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I was making my morning breakfast drink, as is my custom this morning. As I was drinking it down I was also taking my vitamins. I had two vitamins in my mouth and was pouring the drink into my mouth, when I became aware of something else in my mouth. At first I thought it was a piece of unpuréed fruit. But as I rolled it around on my tongue, it felt long an smooth. Then I thought that maybe it was a shard of glass. I carefully removed it from my mouth and found that it was blade off my blender.
I thought to myself, "Good grief. Boy am I glad I didn't swallow that." I examined my blender and found where there used to be four blades there were now three. This was a from my Waring blender.
I did some search on the net and found that a replacement part would run me $30 to $60. I wasn't particularly impressed with my Waring blender.
Later in the day, we went to Wal-Mart and I bought a Hamilton Beach blender for about $24. That's less than the part from Waring would have cost me. I fired off a strong email to Waring, but doubt much will come of it. The blender had a one year limited warrantee and I had purchased the blender in February of last year.
Since this was Saturday, Karol and I went to Ocean City. We got there a little after 1700. We parked on 24th street and walked to a boardwalk restaurant on about 14th street. As we were eating, the sky got darker and darker. We finished and were walking up to the Dairy Queen, when the rain came down.
We took shelter in the 99 cent store. The fellow in the store immediately started hawking his plastic poncho's for $0.99. We stood around for about 15 minutes, and the rain let up, but did not completely relent. Everyone was oohing and ahhing about seeing the lightning strike the water off the coast. Personally, it made me feel like I should be further back in the store.
Did you know that in the United States more people are killed by lightning than all the tornados and hurricanes put together in any one year?
We bought poncho's and walked to the Dairy Queen and had our custards. From there we walked on down to the Music Peer at about 8th street. The rain continued to come down very lightly. We decided to call it a night and walked all the way through the rain back to the car and came home. Wet.
Posted by Ted at August 30, 2003 8:11 PM