| After years
of service and hundreds of hours of cleaning up after my messes, the
robot quit working. I do not blame it. It had performed well
above and beyond the call of vacuuming It had done a lot of nasty work,
because I am a man and men are messy. I had gotten my money out of it. When a
Roomba goes kaput, its not spectacular. There are no death throws.
The robot does not go crazy and attack humans. There is no smoke, nor
explosions. It is uneventful quiteness.
Even though the robot is dead, the robot will
tell you why it is dead. Yes, it can communicate from the grave. It
can communicate via beeps and flashing lights. My robot was telling me
through a slow pulsing red light, that it needed help.
I called IRobot the manufacturer of the Roomba.
The support personnel at IRobot are quick and professional. They
diagnosis the problem to failure of the main battery or maybe worse. My
Roomba that had served me faithfully for years was gone. The control
panel on top, that once illuminated a happy green was pulsing a dreary
red.
The pulsing red light was a signal for the robot
equivalent of the grim reaper to come and reap my vacuum.
What was I to do? The frugal gene in me makes it
very very difficult to spend money, but I need this vacuum. Yes, I need
this vacuum, because Roomba's are amazing. |
