[CrazyIvan]

This brought back a distant memory. When I was grade school age there was a kid we called Fritz in the neighborhood who was “different”. Not sure if they even diagnosed autism back then but in retrospect he very well could have been. Rumor at school was that he had asked for and gotten a vacuum cleaner for a present. This was bizarre to a bunch of guys who wanted bikes and BB guns. I wonder what the appeal of vacuum cleaners is.

[wbill]

I can see the appeal.

It's repetitive, easy to take apart and fix, simple to use, and has an understandable function. And, it has an immediate, and visible reward for its use - there's dirt on the floor you want gone, so you run the vacuum over it, and "poof!" there's no more dirt.

How many times has your vacuum not gotten something up....so you bend over, pick the thing up, and throw it in front of the vacuum to try and get it again? Would be a lot easier to put the bit of whatever in the trash, but no.... I catch myself doing this, occasionally.

[Daffynition]

Depends on who does the asking...