My friends Jessica and Alan are getting married Friday. I'm really excited to bust out my new purple frock and dance the night away--and hopefully not wake up hungover in a nest of towels on the bathroom floor... a story for another time.
Anyhow, there has been much rumbling about one particular item on their registry. A $100 robotic trash can. Say it with me. WTF?
This little baby is "touch-free" and battery operated. It features an infrared sensor for "automatic, hands-free opening and closing." Ok. Go ahead. Slip into fantasy land and imagine how hassle-free it would be to throw away your egg shells with a robot looking out for you. Now come back to reality for a minute. Come back! Go look inside your archaic obsolete plastic trash can. Go ahead. I'll wait for you.
Did you see that? Food gunk? Maybe even some mold? I don't know about you, but I consider trash cans to be disposable. Give me a year with one and I will coat it in mysterious food goo that will turn your stomach.
This is why I will not be registering for a robotic trash can when the time comes for me to walk through Target with my little scanner registry thingymajigger.
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7 comments:
Hm. I think I'd get awfully impatient waiting for a garbage can to open on its own. Unless it's super spring loaded in which case, I'm on board.
you're a bitch! i hope this means you bought me the robotic trash can.
I <3 that the bride commented on this post. LOL
I know, Maxie. I am such an instigator. I actually sent her the link. ;)
A robotic trashcan just sounds creepy. I keep imagining one of those trashcans in Disney World that talk and follow you around.
OMG a robotic trash can is awesome. I might get impatient but the robot will win me over :)
I'm a technophobe to a point. I'll use the self Check outs, but I hate that they talk to me. You would see me at the end of the day at Disney with my arms filled with hotdog wrappers and empty water bottles.
A robot trashcan ... would it interact with the robot vacuum cleeaner?
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