Yesterday was Prime Day on Amazon. At this point, I would
assume that every person in the entire civilized world is an Amazon Prime
member, so you no doubt knew that.
The first item that caught my attention was a 9” tall, 5”
diameter white metal cylinder with the title “Furbo Dog Camera.”
At first I thought it was like a dog toy, where you could
teach your dog to carry it around and take pictures of interesting stuff, like other
dogs’ butts and holes in the lawn. But on further investigation, it turns out
it’s supposed to just sit on the shelf or counter and act as a canine baby
monitor.
All the features and other reasons why I should buy it were
very confusing, but there was a handy video to explain everything.
The video featured Cha Cha, a Husky-looking dog,
approximately 40-60 pounds, who lives in an apartment with a single woman who
leaves him at home to head off to work for the day.
When he’s barking at the door in the middle of the day, she receives
a “Cha Cha is barking” alert on her Furbo smartphone app, and she is able to talk
to him to calm him down via the two-way microphone and speaker communication
system. Her office mates look at her with the appropriate amount of distain.
Later in the day, after an important meeting where she is no
doubt ridiculed behind her back by her coworkers for talking to her dog on her phone,
she is able to check in on Cha Cha, even though the sun has gone down and the
apartment is dark, because Furbo’s camera has night vision.
But my favorite part of the video was when she gives Cha Cha
a treat in the middle of the day, via the Furbo’s treat-tossing hole. You heard
me. The Furbo has a hole in the middle of it from which it can toss a treat to
the dog. Along with a camera and a microphone, this little 9” x 5” cylinder has
a bamboo wood cover and is filled with delicious dog treats.
This is how I know this is a fake product. And Cha Cha is
obviously a fake dog, because after the first treat launched out, every dog, no
matter what size or how well trained, would immediately remove the pint-sized
Furbo from the shelf, gnaw the bamboo cover off, and snarf down every single
treat contained inside.
Furbo claims to have 1900 reviews with a 4-star average rating,
which is obviously a complete fabrication, or else every positive review is
about how white it kept their dog’s teeth from chewing all that bamboo.
More Prime Day Deals were coming fast and furious, in what
appeared to be a random order, but as we know, Amazon is owned by an astronaut,
and astronauts never do things randomly. You don’t just fly your rocket to
wherever. There is always some rhyme or reason to the products Amazon presents
you with. For instance, I have a dog, so the Furbo ad made sense, even if the
product itself is patently ridiculous. I was, however, a little confused by two
other deals I saw back to back.
The first was Poo-Pourri Before-You-Go Toilet Spray. If you haven’t
heard of this product, it’s something you spray on top of the toilet water before
you poop. I am not making that up. It apparently helps trap odors under the
water, sort of like a flower-scented layer of Saran wrap. (Note: Saran wrap of
any scent does NOT work for this application.)
Again, if you are unfamiliar, I implore you to look up the
Poo-Pourri ad campaign with the nice British lady who speaks very frankly about
her poop. The ads are solid. (Pun intended)
The original 2-oz bottle was available for only $6.51, dropped
from the original price of $9.95, but I had to move on the deal and plop it
into my cart in the next 3 hours and 10 minutes before the offer was flushed
out of the system. I passed. (Again, all puns intended, however, completely unnecessary
and juvenile)
Floating there, right next to the Poo-Pourri, was the next
Prime Day Deal. For a limited time, I could score a Generac SpeedWash Model 6882
2900-PSI Gas-Powered Pressure Washer for only $349.00. I don’t know what the
original price was, but that sounds like a smokin’ deal to me. I mean, that’s
only $0.12 per PSI. Where else are you going to find PSI’s that cheap? Nowhere,
man!
Amazon has obviously figured out that I like power tools,
probably using the ingenious algorithm of, “He’s a dude. Sell him power tools.”
But what I can’t figure out is what a 2900-PSI pressure washer has in common
with an anti-stink toilet spray. They have to be connected to each other in one
of Amazon’s internal algorithms, because I have never shopped for anything even
remotely connected to poo spray on the internet.
I have purchased Saran wrap before, but that can’t be it. The only possible explanation is there must be a strange sector of power tool-loving men out
there who have inexplicably rejected toilet paper in favor of pressure washers.
A mobile, gas-powered, 2900-PSI bidet, if you will. I will not. These men are
probably from Alaska, or Montana, or Detroit, and I have no idea how I became
associated with them.
Either that, or the Poo-Pourri and the pressure washer are related to my
dog somehow, but she very rarely uses the toilet, and I think she’d bite me if I
hit her with 2900 PSI. It’s all very confusing.
I’ll tell you what, though. Speaking of toilets and pressure
washers, what the hell have we been doing all these years with that silly
little toilet brush? When it comes time to clean the bathroom, the Generac
SpeedWash 6882 would put the hurt on that job in a hurry! Why didn’t I think of
that before?
Excuse me, I need to get back to Amazon and see if that deal
is still available.
See you soon,
-Smidge
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