RDP Tuesday: Absurd

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Here I am with my walker, an older photo in town. I wrote about this walker yesterday as it had stopped moving and it was a great problem. I manage to improve it a little, but it still was not perfect. However, my rescue person was here today, my household help Luzia, and she naturally solved the problem.

She examined the wheels of the walker and found with so much hair trapped in the link between the wheels, it was obvious that it was no longer able to move smoothly. The first thing she asked for is machine oil, which I do not have, However I had olive oil, which was also appliable. She put oil on the wheel joint and then took a knife and scissors, and began to remove the hair, and it was a lot of hair. It had completely blocked the mobility on the wheels. This was only the beginning. She removed what she could. Luckily Mr. Swiss always had a good collection of tools and she found a perfect instrument for removing the wheels. I just watched as I am a bit helpless with such work. She removed the wheel and found enough hair wedged in between to almost make a wig. Over the years it had collected and reached its limit. I have had the walker since eight years.

After removing the wheels we removed the collection of hair which had accumulated. I suppose it is one of the disadvantages of having long hair. She did everything perfectly and afterwards replaced the wheels and now I have a new walker and it is perfect, no more problems with mobiliity.

Lucia to the rescue again to solve such an absurd problem, she is an expert in finding solutions and so practical.

12 thoughts on “RDP Tuesday: Absurd”

  1. I wonder if it was cat hair, too. My mouse will sometimes stop working and when I open it up, there will be cat hair from my cats loving to lay on my desk, my keyboard and my mouse! We all need a Lucia in our lives! Glad she was able to figure it out for you.

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  2. Good to have someone like Lucia around! I know the hair problem from the robotic vacuum cleaner, my son left us, when he bought a new-one. It is my own long hair, wrapping around, while it works, an there is a little . There’s a small, special knife included as a precaution. Perhaps you can buy something like that separately somewhere, so the nail scissors remain undamaged?

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