Dateline: Lunchtime.
In response to a request for additional toast, I insert two slices of granary into the slots of our recently acquired Tesco® Value® Toaster and push the lever down. I start to move away. Flash! Sput! The toaster does a November the 5th impression.
Now, gentle reader, more than a few of you will have been party to one of my little talks about how future archaeologists are going to refer to the period we are now in as the Cheap Plastic Shit Era on account of the thick layer of crap that is going to be left behind by all the not-fit-for-purpose junk and how cheap and good value are not necessarily the same thing and very often are not.
Well, anyway, far be it from me to miss an opportunity like this to say…
Jax, I told you so.
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“The toaster does a November the 5th impression.”
What, you mean it attempted to wipe its mummy out during its birth? Or am i obsessing a little???
That would be the reason I refuse to use your toaster. Get a new one!
It *is* a new one!
The only time I ever had a toaster that exploded, there wasn’t even any toast in it, it seemed to just go fut spontaneously. In retrospect, I’m fairly sure it short-circuited by a slug, as we had rather a lot in that house.
jan - yuk and yet more yuk!
urgh jan!
Well, I suppose if it just goes fut every few weks you just get anew one under warranty - bit of a pain when you want your morning toast though.
My favourite slug story is the time when I lived in very damp basment flat (the wooden spoons in the drawer grew mould…) One morning found a slug nibbling at a left over chip on the floor. You could even see the chip moving
I’m not even going to read these slug stories!!! Oops…
Slugs on toast, anyone?
It’s that V word that got me the most
*I* could have told you so as a value toaster did the same to us a few months back. Needless to say we exchanged it for one that was more expensive but much better value.