Is this a Blag, or an instruction manual?
In some ways it's life. I like to think of my Blag as sort of an instruction manual for life. A while ago, we had "Don't Be That Guy" Week, and occasionally we'll watch people doing stupid things, or read some stupid quotes. Today's takes a little extra work, but the payoff is terrific.
So where did this come from?
I bought a fan.
Well you certainly have no fans of your Blag, you HAD to get one somehow.
More specifically, I bought a window fan. It has a temperature sensor to decide how to control the temperature. It's a cute little feature, and makes things a bit more environmentally conscious. It also opens the door to a darker side of life: The people who think that a fan is a substitute for an air conditioner.
Today's Sametime Status comes from a sticker on the fan itself. I removed the sticker because I am not a moron. I have to think of just how that sticker came to be, and why it is now placed on every fan the company makes. Obviously, they got phone calls. They got letters and some returns and possibly an angry email from dissatisfied customers who thought, for some unknown reason, that the fan they just purchased was actually an air conditioner, and would provide cold air rather than circulation.
That's probably what happened.
Exactly. It's a pretty sad state of affairs, but it's a part of life. So I propose a homework assignment for his weekend to The Most Intelligent Readership In The World: Call up the manufacturer of whatever fan you have in your home. Ask them why it doesn't change the temperature of the air, and see what kind of response you get. We can join the whimsical webcomic xkcd in making the world a weirder place:
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