Everybody has chores that they have to do. If you live by yourself, your motivation for those chores is just whatever you can muster up. If you have a significant other, the chores may not always be of your own choosing. Sometimes, there are tasks that are ‘woman’s work’, and sometimes tasks that involve trips to the local Lowe’s before completion. But not everything fits into such a nice little stereotype. Today’s Quixotic Quantum Quandary is a task related item, one of a fairly stable technology, but one that at my house does not fit into any sort of neat stereotype. See if the small clue above gives it away, then tell us what sort of things society tells you that you should be the master of, but in reality you steer clear of for fear of abject failure.
As always, here is a bit of a hint.
If any of you friendly frequenters of the Quandary have some ponderable particulars that you would care to share, a little tidbit of forgotten technology, please send some photos my way! Just email HycoSpeed@gmail.com and throw Q³ in the subject line so I’ll see it.
Well… it's an iron, but what kind, I don't know.
I agree.
A steam iron that's been used with hard water, no less. I'll guess that it's a GE brand. Two prong plug, cloth-wrapped cord with a stress relief spring at the back of the iron. Hurts if you drop it on your foot.
/that's all I can come up with
Also, it's a bad idea to keep it plugged in next to the phone.
Yes, yes that is indeed a very bad idea, however it is a mistake that most people only make once.
Brand and wattage or it doesn't count!!
Very nicely done, clearly you do as much 'women work' as I do. I wonder if there is any room for innovation in the iron market.
Of course there's room for innovation for clothing irons, but you won't get it from me , by the gods! Bah! Luddites!
I suppose I should just be grateful I don't have to put it back in the fire to warm it.
Innovation in wrinkle free clothing has, to a great extent, short-circuited innovation in irons.
I think I am buying the wrong clothes.
Would it be a cheese grater?
Do a lot of cooking, do you?
Not really. Is it that obvious?
Looks like one of those portable triangular bacon grills to me. Never understood why they put the handle on the back side – I have to prop mine up or the bacon slips off. I do appreciate the little holes for the grease drippings, though.
Apparently 422 so-called "people" like Atomic Toasters. But does anyone love a steam iron? I mean, what a great name, but such a horrible thing. You say the words 'steam' and 'iron' in a sentence and it calls up images of locomotives, egregious mustaches, women with a whale's bones propping up their by-gollys and a high, loud, long whistle sounding the knell of horse droppings as part of everyday life. Adding steam to iron, that was progress!
When you say the two words consecutively, though, you just call to mind the everyday life part. Drudgery without ambition.
Maybe without ambition, but with neatly pressed clothes!
That's just because the Atomic Steam Iron hasn't been invented yet. get to it!