Roomba’s Are Usually A Great Way To Clean, Unless They Run Over Poop
In today’s modern society, technology has seemingly taken over everything in our lives. Our interactions, the way we shop and even the way we pay bills has been changed forever due to technology. And the crazy thing is, this is only the beginning.
Who knows, in the next few decades or so, we could have full sized robot butlers who tend to our every need and clean our messes. But if you want something to clean your home for you (and don’t want to pay a maid service), your best bet is a Roomba.
If you are unfamiliar with what a Roomba is, let me explain. A Roomba is a robotic, autonomous mini vacuum cleaner that will automatically crawl along your floors and clean them, without any input from you. Now that you are familiar, let me tell you about the harrowing tale that a family in Arkansas faced.
The Newton family live a happy life in Arkansas. There are Kelly and Jesse, along with their son Evan and their dog, Evie, who just happens to be the star of the story.
The family absolutely adores their Roomba that they purchased a while back as it is a lifesaver in dealing with the puppy hair and the crumbs their son can leave around the house. Now, instead of running all day and getting in people’s way, you can actually program a Roomba to take its cleaning course automatically.
And that is exactly what the Newton’s do. Every early morning at 1:30 AM, their Roomba goes, and cleans. But (in a Facebook post that has now gone viral with hundreds of thousands of shares), Jesse explained how one of its routine cleaning trips, wasn’t very routine at all.
The trip will forever be known as the “pooptastrophe”. That is because, right before the Roomba was scheduled to clean up, their beloved puppy Evie had a little accident on the floor. However, the Roomba didn’t stop at the poop, it rolled over it and traced a “poop trail” for around 25 feet. Here is the text of the post he made:
Do not, under circumstances, let your Roomba run over dog poop. Because if it happens, it will spread the dog poop over every conceivable surface within its reach, resulting in a home that closely resembles a Jackson Pollock poop painting.
And while that on it’s own paints a pretty good picture of what happened, Jesse was sure to insert his own illustration of the disaster so everyone could see how awful and huge it was.
Jesse then spent the next three hours in the middle of the night cleaning the horrific mess. Finally, it was clean and he could go back to bed.
And while Jesse did indeed get made at the dog (and the Roomba) at first, he realizes it is no one’s fault but his own. This just goes to show you that we shouldn’t let technology take over every part of our lives, or we may end up with poop all over the floor.
