01-21-2007, 07:16 AM
Here's a "contest" where everyone can participate...unfortunately. As a certain theory says, inanimate objects have rebelled against humankind, to get us to our knees, and ultimately defeat us. Those objects that supposedly have no life, but they act as if they did, and were hostile to humankind. It's easy: Tell about the greatest junk you've had.
In my case, here are my contestants:
-A correction pen whose contents started thickening almost immediately, and clogged for good about five hours after I bought it. It was useful only for correcting about four pages.
-Most Bic biros I've had stopped working after a few lines. I also have a handful of Chinese pens that are able to write about a line and then they stop. But if you grab them the next day again, they write another line. However, if you leave them ten days alone, they will write one line alone as well. (Must be an ancient Chinese spell).
-A digital diary that was completely thrashed. It never worked; it had to be exchanged. All it did was to display a whole lot of crazy numbers that blinked, but didn't change no matter what button you pushed.
-An electronic piano with the same traits as the digital diary.
-An incredible offer of glue pens from a shop that was closing...with a twist. I bought lots of them, and delayed a lot to open the blue capped ones, mostly because I don't like the color. And...surprise! All the blue capped ones had been opened, and part of what they had inside was water. Of course, there was no more shop to go and complain.
-An university bag whose handles broke the third time I wore it. Inspecting it, I realized it was sewn with a single file of thread. Now that I've had that experience, I check the sewing in every bag I'm interested in buying....only to discover that all of them share the same disposition. What good is a double sewn bottom when the handles get ripped off?
-A lovely, small black T-shirt with Japanese letters, whose armpits became gray the first time I wore it, light gray the third, and broke (both) the fifth. I still think of cutting the beautiful letters and sew it somewhere else, but the T-shirt itself is impossible to mend.
And now, please introduce your own contestants.
In my case, here are my contestants:
-A correction pen whose contents started thickening almost immediately, and clogged for good about five hours after I bought it. It was useful only for correcting about four pages.
-Most Bic biros I've had stopped working after a few lines. I also have a handful of Chinese pens that are able to write about a line and then they stop. But if you grab them the next day again, they write another line. However, if you leave them ten days alone, they will write one line alone as well. (Must be an ancient Chinese spell).
-A digital diary that was completely thrashed. It never worked; it had to be exchanged. All it did was to display a whole lot of crazy numbers that blinked, but didn't change no matter what button you pushed.
-An electronic piano with the same traits as the digital diary.
-An incredible offer of glue pens from a shop that was closing...with a twist. I bought lots of them, and delayed a lot to open the blue capped ones, mostly because I don't like the color. And...surprise! All the blue capped ones had been opened, and part of what they had inside was water. Of course, there was no more shop to go and complain.
-An university bag whose handles broke the third time I wore it. Inspecting it, I realized it was sewn with a single file of thread. Now that I've had that experience, I check the sewing in every bag I'm interested in buying....only to discover that all of them share the same disposition. What good is a double sewn bottom when the handles get ripped off?
-A lovely, small black T-shirt with Japanese letters, whose armpits became gray the first time I wore it, light gray the third, and broke (both) the fifth. I still think of cutting the beautiful letters and sew it somewhere else, but the T-shirt itself is impossible to mend.
And now, please introduce your own contestants.