My cup runnith over..
Several months ago maybe a year ago, someone in the family entered a drawing. After all these past months, we were notified that we were one of the selected winners. Within a few day a package was delivered to our home. It was the latest item in kitchen appliances.
This thing was said to do anything and everything in the kitchen for you. It could make your coffee, at a selected time, any number of cups, strong or weak and add cream and sugar to you liking. It would toast you bread to any number of selection, butter and add peanut butter or jelly if desired. It would cook your eggs, any number, to the way you wanted them. It gave you a selection of bacon, sausage, ham and hash or hash browns. Yes indeed, it was a most welcome kitchen appliance.
According to the information provided, it would keep records, and automatically reorder foods to restock that which had been used. It would play music, AM & FM Tapes, Disks and make hourly reports on news and weather. It would announce when the food was ready to serve and keep it hot until it was called for.
Several months ago maybe a year ago, someone in the family entered a drawing. After all these past months, we were notified that we were one of the selected winners. Within a few day a package was delivered to our home. It was the latest item in kitchen appliances.
This thing was said to do anything and everything in the kitchen for you. It could make your coffee, at a selected time, any number of cups, strong or weak and add cream and sugar to you liking. It would toast you bread to any number of selection, butter and add peanut butter or jelly if desired. It would cook your eggs, any number, to the way you wanted them. It gave you a selection of bacon, sausage, ham and hash or hash browns. Yes indeed, it was a most welcome kitchen appliance.
According to the information provided, it would keep records, and automatically reorder foods to restock that which had been used. It would play music, AM & FM Tapes, Disks and make hourly reports on news and weather. It would announce when the food was ready to serve and keep it hot until it was called for.
The following morning, we had programmed it to prepare our breakfast while we showered, dressed and got ready to do some shopping. Breakfast was good and we enjoyed it and was soon on our way out the door.
Several hours later, we were returning home and notices a line of people going around the block and leading up to our front door. The were a couple of police cars with officers trying to control the crowd. It took a while to find a place to park the car and upon trying to enter our home, the crowd went into an uproar and was determined that we go to the end of the line. We finally gained entrance to the house, through a basement window and you would not believe what we found, once we were inside !
People where everywhere, setting on the floor with plates of food in hand. In the bedrooms, waiting their turn to use the bath rooms. There was nothing that had not already been broken or destroyed.
All the food in the house was used up and orders for more food had been delivered and used up. The fourth order was just being delivered as we gained entrance to the house. Upon learning what was going on, it took most of a hour to get to the garage and find a large sledge hammer and with two or three blows, the kitchen appliance spewed steam and a few grown were heard coming from within.
Several hours later, we were returning home and notices a line of people going around the block and leading up to our front door. The were a couple of police cars with officers trying to control the crowd. It took a while to find a place to park the car and upon trying to enter our home, the crowd went into an uproar and was determined that we go to the end of the line. We finally gained entrance to the house, through a basement window and you would not believe what we found, once we were inside !
People where everywhere, setting on the floor with plates of food in hand. In the bedrooms, waiting their turn to use the bath rooms. There was nothing that had not already been broken or destroyed.
All the food in the house was used up and orders for more food had been delivered and used up. The fourth order was just being delivered as we gained entrance to the house. Upon learning what was going on, it took most of a hour to get to the garage and find a large sledge hammer and with two or three blows, the kitchen appliance spewed steam and a few grown were heard coming from within.
This kitchen appliance, apparently had a faulty off switch and would not shut down. It would start the cycle over and over again and again.
The police called for assistance and in a few hours the crowd had been dispersed. We had to hire guards to watch over what was left of the house. We stayed in a local motel for the night, hoping we could decided what to do next. We had a choice of tearing the house down or salvaging what we could and rebuilding it.
The first thing we did, was to box up that kitchen appliance and send it back to the manufacture. But a few days later, the UPS was returning it to us. The manufacture would not accept it without a sales receipt.
Soon, bills were being sent to us for food services. The total was over four hundred thousand dollars. That included the house. The car was towed away because it had been parked in a private area. The charges was eighty five dollars for towing and twenty-five dollars a day, as long as it was in the pound.
Let yourselves be warned, never put your name in a box to win a prize. You are liable to get more than you want. We can’t do anything until the courts come to some decision they have a backlog of two to three years.
Unfortunately Yours: Her & Him
By; Ben Aug. 4 , 2008
The first thing we did, was to box up that kitchen appliance and send it back to the manufacture. But a few days later, the UPS was returning it to us. The manufacture would not accept it without a sales receipt.
Soon, bills were being sent to us for food services. The total was over four hundred thousand dollars. That included the house. The car was towed away because it had been parked in a private area. The charges was eighty five dollars for towing and twenty-five dollars a day, as long as it was in the pound.
Let yourselves be warned, never put your name in a box to win a prize. You are liable to get more than you want. We can’t do anything until the courts come to some decision they have a backlog of two to three years.
Unfortunately Yours: Her & Him
By; Ben Aug. 4 , 2008
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