She who must be obeyed frequently expresses a desire to do or obtain something. A second-hand Toyota Camry, a working knowledge of the Spanish language, daily attendance at a yoga class. I have learned that these are just vague yearnings spoken out loud and, if ignored, will disappear to be replaced with some new desire which can also be ignored.
Occasionally, something sticks, and yesterday a recommendation from our physio, which has been bubbling around in the wish list for a month or so, came to fruition as I was manoeuvred into the crap gadget section of Big C and we came home with this:
Of course you know what it is (apart from hideous)? Yes, it’s a steam tent. Our physio says it will be very good at helping SWMBO with her neck and back pain. I say she will use it a couple of times and then it will rot in the back bathroom.
There is the tent thingie, and inside it you place the supplied “herbal sauna pot”.
At least that is what it says on the box. Inside it is a different matter and it is quite clear that what we have here is nothing more than a rice cooker.
It’s the controls that give it away:
Not sure what the difference is between “good” and “OK”.
So you fill the rice cooker with water and some stuff that makes a smell something similar to, but not exactly the same as, herbs; stick it in the tent and then climb in for a steaming session (and a scalded legs session should you accidentally kick the rice cooker and spill some). Then you climb out and have a cold shower, and assuming you have not collapsed with heart failure, you do it all over again.
This seems to me to be exactly the sort of activity I would never, ever want to undertake. Having bought and installed the bloody thing, I don’t see a great deal of enthusiasm from SWMBO either, but I told her she had to get in it to have her photo taken.
For some reason she was concerned that people she knows would recognise her sitting in a stupid steam tent from which no steam was emanating because the rice cooker was set to the combined settings of “Good” and “Off”.
“I need a disguise” she announced, and duly appeared wearing a panda hat and a pair of goggles. Don’t ask me why, these little incidents are what makes living with her a constant source of amusement.
So, Pattaya Days is proud to present: somebody wearing a panda hat and goggles, sat in a non-operational steam tent:
And, just because I know Lloyd will love it, somebody wearing a panda hat and goggles, sat in a non-operational steam tent, using an iPad:
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2010-04-30| Qon saysLOL <– really laughing out loud. even Joom is laughing ;)
2010-04-30| Pete saysMy own SWMBO bought one of these things about 12 years ago. It was used about twice - then it rotted in the spare bedroom, exactly as I predicted then, and you quite correctly predict now!!
2010-04-30| Billy saysMy Her Indoors is well impressed, she has only got as far as those whirly foot bath things, she has had three so far .. she buys one and then sells it at 5 cents on the dollar a year later and buys another one … I guess I am lucky …
2010-05-01| Lloyd saysIn the event your iPad should, read most certainly will fail at some point you may find out that using said device in such close proximity to what is basically a personal sauna may just void the Apple warranty…
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4109 I especially like the part… “Operate iPad in a place where the temperature is between 0º and 35º C (32º to 95º F). Low- or high-temperature conditions might temporarily shorten battery life or cause the device to temporarily stop working properly." that pretty much rules out Thailand.
Environmental requirements http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
Luckily for me some sucker at the Travellers Rest bar in Nong Khai just parted with 25,000 Baht and got himself a new toy ;-)
BTW, No I dont think “iPad buyers are idiots”, I just believe they are nothing special and if it works for you then great!!!
2010-05-01| Farang Jai Dee saysI can NOW clearly see why ‘she who must be obeyed’ IS ‘she who must be obeyed’. Lord oh mighty! Not that he has anything to do with the downtrodden in that house hold. :-)
2010-05-03| Spike saysShe gets a crappy steam box, I get to acquire all the gadgets I “need”. Marriage is compromise.