Carpet Cleaning

For a while in the entryway of the building we live in has been living under the stairs a giant blue 4-wheeled plastic monster machine. It sports a long double-hosed shiny metal trunk, and his friends are a red water bucket and a bottle of extra evil cleaning fluid.
Today we allowed all three of them into our home for carpet cleaning.

The 3 most amazing things about carpet cleaning:
1. It doesn't matter how often you refill the machine with clear clean water, even after the umpteenth time it will come out again disgustingly dirty and black.
2. see 3.
3. see 1.

The 3 second most amazing things about carpet cleaning:
1. The carpet takes a fuckload of time afterwards to dry.
2. The machine is surprisingly unhandy: heavy, hard to move, all kinds of hoses and cables get in your way all the time, the machine's butt leaks (that's what the bucket is for), the trunk is made for short people (or those who whish to seriously damage their backs).
3. The dirt actually comes out nicely.

The 1 inevitable thing you have to live with when carpet cleaning:
1. Some spots remain.

The 2 things you have really have to do when carpet cleaning:
1.Turn off your imagination: The dirty water has an unpleasant smell to it. Yes, it came out of your carpet. No, you don't wanna know what it is.
2. Turn on your self-deception: Of course it looks cleaner now. Remember there were spots here and there and there? No? But there were. Now they're gone.

Conclusion:
Carpet cleaning = Another nice sunday afternoon activity.