Once upon a time, in a beautiful city, there lived a young woman. She resided with a dear friend in the house of a man she had never met, under the condition that the two women should keep the house spic and span and safe and sound in the hopes that one day the house should be sold.
And so, one bright sunny day in March, the two women were told that the very next day there would be an open house. This of course required the house be quite clean, prompting the young women to, over the course of two and a half hours in the early evening, attack the project with great vigor.
Our heroine, the younger of the two girls by a mere matter of approximately four months, charged herself with sweeping and vacuuming the floors. This task was by no means difficult, simply a chore to be done, and done with cheer. However, there was one small misfortune.
As the girl vacuumed, she noticed that very little was being achieved. This was quite irking, especially since the vacuum itself was of a highly respected brand, and such a well reputed device really ought to handle itself better. However, it did not, and as time went on, the young woman began to believe that perhaps the brand did not deserve such high praise as it received daily. Perhaps the spokesman for the brand should not so proudly promote his devices. For, according to its oft-stated affirmation, the machine did not "lose suction," it appeared never to have suction in the first place!
Growing ever more frustrated but determined to finish her task, the young woman continued to push the dratted device over the floors of two levels, doing very little apart from pushing small pieces of lint across the carpets. It wasn't until she was very nearly finished that she discovered something that should have been found when she first began the endeavor. The top of the vacuum popped off, and when she tried to secure it once more, it proved a useless effort. Curious, the young woman peered at the components inside, and found it to be a filter, easily removed. She turned the filter over and reinserted it, and found the top to close quite cleanly. When she restarted the vacuum, it ran perfectly, cleaning the floors in a manner that lived up to its high reputation.
Cheered and triumphant over her victory over the vacuum, the girl's mood darkened when she realized that this meant she would have to once again clean every carpet that she had already supposedly cleaned.
Nevertheless, after such trials and tribulations, the house shone and sparkled from the efforts of the two ladies, and they were confident that no real estate agent could find fault with them.
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