# Misread thread titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093 "2017-09-11T22:38:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1843
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093/1843 "2026-01-12T21:13:44Z")
Not quite a thread _title_, but over in the “Stupidest product designs…” thread, in my coffee deprived state this morning I misread the first sentence of @echoreply’s recent post as “I recently bought a floor sanding humidifier…” I was racking my brain trying to understand why one would want to combine a floor sander with a humidifier. Does the humidity help control the dust or something? Then I realized what is actually said. > [@Stupidest product design you’ve experienced](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-product-design-you-ve-experienced/981621/1851): > > I recently bought a floor standing humidifier, because the humidity can easily drop below 20% here in the winter, and it’s not possible to add a humidifier to the furnace. I have no complaints about its performance. However, it does not have anything to indicate how much water is left in the tank. I can understand even a simple floating plastic bead in a tube would make the tank more complex and likely to leak, so I guess forgivable. What it does do is show a letter on a seven segment LED disp… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misread-thread-titles/796093)._