We're all going to die a slow and painful death...

No kidding. Gloom, Despair, and Agony on me! Wait, wait, let me back up about 12 hours. We should know better by now but we decided to put our names in some box at the fair where if we guessed the amount of money in a jar we'd win it. Needless to say, we "won" a vacation or $250 gift certificate. We'd just like to drop it by and while we're there demonstrate the Rainbow vacuum system.

After putting them off for well over a week I finally set a time with the nice lady on the phone. Needless to say, nice lady not the person that came to our house. Don't get me wrong, both gentlemen were extremely nice and polite......until we said that we weren't interested.

Honestly, if I had a suitcase full of money laying around, I'd have bought one. Last time I checked, I didn't carry $2500 tucked in my sock or anywhere else for that matter. We listened intently to the 3 hour (nope not kidding) demonstration. We tried it out and yes it does pick up lots of dirt. Yes, the water was Nasty (not just nasty, note the capital "N") that was in the chamber pot under the vacuum. Yes, the deoderizer / sanitizer they put in the water smelled nice. But, $2500. They did say that since we owned a house they could extend that out to a four year loan at around $70 a month. How nice of them.

When we got suckered into buying a Kirby shortly after we were married we said never again would we spend that kind of money on a vacuum. "Old Dusty" as the salesman called it will have to do for now. The way they made it sound, it'd be cleaner and healthier to sleep out in the yard than it is to sleep in my house. Every disease known to man lives in my carpet. If I'd have bought this vacuum, excuse me "air purification system" all of our illnesses would have just disappeared.

I think the part that got me was when they were packing their stuff up. The salesman said "Well, at least you've got one spot here on the carpet where it's safe for your children to play. At least for the next week or so." REEEEEAAAAALLLLLLYYYYYY! I'm surprised we've lived this long. What with all the dead skin and dust mite feces just piled up around the house.

The real kicker. The exact same setup that he was trying to sell me today is on eBay. The bid just minutes before he walked in, $250. When he saw that his little snide remarks weren't provoking us to change our mind he switched gears. "You know, you could make $300 - $500 a week working for Rainbow part time." It was all Melissa could do to keep from laughing. She finally had to leave the room to "take care of Renae" (I swear she pinched her to make her cry.)