So, last night I’m on my computer in the middle of my WoW raid when suddenly I hear an ominous “crash!” from the kitchen. Fortunately the kitchen is right behind me, so I turn around and…
Oh, shit…
One of my cats has knocked a teflon skillet off the stove…complete with its glass lid. Which is now shattered all over the floor.
Quickly telling my raidmates that I had a small emergency and I’d be gone for a bit, I hurried out there, carefully shooed the cat out (along with the two other cats who’d come to investigate the sound), grabbed a brush and a dustpan and started scooping up the glass.
Glass gets everywhere. This stuff shattered like safety glass so there were no scary shards, but the pieces didn’t stay together so I had to move everything and track them down (occasionally chasing down a cat who decided a single piece of glass made a great toy and had batted it out of the kitchen).
Took me about 20 minutes to be pretty sure I’d gotten it all. Threw it away outside and went back to the raid.
10 minutes or so later the spouse gets home. I ask him to please check that all the glass is gone. He pulls out the vacuum cleaner and proceeds to vacuum the entire kitchen. When I have a break I tell him what I did with the brush and dustpan, and he says, “You should have just gotten out the vacuum cleaner and sucked it all up.”
“You can’t do that!” I protested. “It would ruin the vacuum!” (Note that I wasn’t talking about the little bit he did–he said he didn’t actually see any glass and that I’d most likely gotten it all).
“It will not,” he tells me.
So…what say you guys? Am I right, or is he? Is it safe to suck up large quantities of glass with a vac, or will it mess up the innards? If it matters, our vac is one of those Dyson Pet things. I personally hate it–it sucks well, but it’s a pain in the neck to hustle around. But it has no bag, just a hopper thing.