My Tuesday started off with a trip to the ENT where I had a little bitty camera on a stick stuffed up my nose so the doc could look down my throat. If I said it was a totally whack feeling to know something has been stuck in my head through an orifice that can barely accommodate finger, would you fault me for shuddering a bit once it was removed? No worries I survived my moment of being creeped out. The doc laughed when I told I couldn't keep my eyes open while he was working that camera since it just felt too weird knowing what he was doing. He gave me some samples and a script and sent me on my way.
Due to the efficiency of my ENTs office I was in and out of there so fast I still had some time to kill before work so I headed home to indulge in more coffee, peruse the net and I found myself a surprise. I stumbled across an article about a TV recall and thought ours was on that list. We have a 32" TV we bought about 2 years ago to replace the old monster of a set I'd had for about 15 years. The old set was still working when we brought the new one home so we stuck it in a corner of one of the bedrooms. Why we didn't just can it then I don't know. I guess we were guarding against the trend in televisions and other electronics made since the late 80's that are basically built to crap out, though they somehow manage to last just long enough to run out the warranty. Back in the day a television set was kind of a big deal purchase and if you found a good one you hung on to it until it blew up. When I bought the old set I didn't expect it to last as long as it did. I hated to move it. It was one of the picture tube models that had you reaching down to tuck your nuts in your socks after you had to pick it up and carry it somewhere. After biting the bullet to get satellite we decided to finally retire the beast and upgrade to something a tad bit newer. We bought it because the price was right and it definitely was an upgrade to the old set.
So here I am just piddling around online when I come across a recall article that mentions 32" Coby TVs. Cue the blue air,apparently the sets in the recall have shown a propensity to catch fire. Lovely, I've had this fucking thing in my house for two years with no trouble but did I have a sleeping monster in my living room? I grabbed my trusty penlight and tip-toed to the TV. Underneath the dust on the back I found both the serial number and model number on our set didn't match the ones mentioned in the recall. Yay for that. The thought of having to fiddle fart around with Fry's or stick a crowbar in my wallet to buy a replacement didn't exactly fill me with dread, though I surely wasn't skipping. The retailers who sold them are handling the recall replacements since company has gone out of business, big surprise there. One little sigh of relief here, though wisdom says keep our options open at this point. I guess I'll need to keep my crowbar handy.
Some other recalled stuff
I decided to include the list even though some of these have been around a while.
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