OK, here's the deal. Today while i was vacuuming my living room, the belt to my vacuum cleaner came off. This is not the first time for this to happen. I really need to replace the damn vacuum.
Well, to fix this little problem, I have to take a fillips head screw driver and take off the plate on the bottom of the vacuum. Then I have to remove the roller that Is covered with bristles. The roller turns and the bristles brush the dirt and pet hair so the vacuum can clean more efficiently.
I successfully removed the roller, and replaced the belt to where It would make the roller turn again. All was going according to plan, when apparently my right hand hit the switch that turns the vacuum on. BIG MISTAKE! I had just finished putting the plate back on, and was actually finished putting it back together.
If you haven't noticed by now, I have some pretty long hair. Well, with the vacuum upside down and my hair hanging right in front of the damned thing, you can get a pretty good idea as to what happened next.
The roller caught the left side of my hair and just like that, my hair was rolled around the bristles, and my head was slammed into the bottom of the vacuum cleaner. I freaked out! Luckily I was able to not panic and turned the switch off pretty quickly.
The problem was with my head pinned to the bottom of the vacuum cleaner, I was having some trouble finding the screw driver that was on the floor. I yelled for my kids to come and help me. They found the screw driver, and I then got to the task of trying to put the screw driver head into the slot of the screws to take them out.
It took some time, and I had to resist the urge to simply pull my head away from the vacuum cleaner, since that would have surely caused me to lose a great deal of my hair. Once I had the plate off, I began unrolling my hair from it. It took nearly a half an hour to get It unrolled, but I managed to do it successfully.
Surprisingly, I didn't lose as much hair as I thought I would. The only real damage was in the form of a massive headache. My hair was pulled so hard that I felt as if I had tied It to a bumper of a car and was dragged behind It. But other than that I can see no physical difference In the appearance of It.
Now the next time the belt comes off, I will make sure to have my hair In a ponytail, and the vacuum cleaner unplugged...
