The Blender Story

I don't have a good history with blenders. For some reason they just don't want to do what I want them to do. Since Brad and I have been married he has gone out to replace our blender 4 times. Yeah, I told you, I don't have a good history with blenders. I'm pretty good with all other kitchen appliances! :) With blenders I typically burn the motors up. As I stated, I expect the blender to handle more than what it's capable of. Plus, I leave it running for too long, thinking that the longer it runs the more likely it is to chop or blend up whatever it is I'm messing with. Within a matter of minutes there's smoke as well as the aroma of smoke beginning to be detected.

Many months ago when Brad surprised me with our most recent blender known as #4. He specifically told me this was it for blenders. I was informed the fourth blender had to last until we were old and gray because we aren't replacing another one. I was warned to not mistreat "#4": to not fill it too full, to not leave it running for too long, to not try to chop things that it can't handle chopping. Side note, if it has a "chop" setting, then why can't it chop what I want it to chop? Frustrating!

When it comes to using the blender I primarily use it but there are times when Brad decides to make drinks in it. Over the weekend he made a round of drinks, filled the blender to the brim. We didn't drink all that he made so he saved the drinks by putting the pitcher of the blender in the freezer. Low and behold last night he was in a hurry and not knowing his own strength flung the door to the freezer open, in a split second before he could react the pitcher fell to the floor. Immediately breaking into a billion pieces! That glass pitcher on our type of floors was a done deal!

All I have to say...this time around, it wasn't my fault. I did not cause the latest catastrophe to bring down yet another blender in our household. Brad's response after we cleaned up the mess, "After all the lecturing I did to you when I brought that blender home, I'm the one that breaks it. Didn't see that one coming?"