I was having trouble getting a cable through an underground conduit 20 feet long so decided to put a string through first after trying all sorts my wife came up with the idea of tying a wooly Pom Pom to some wool and sucking it through with the Dyson it worked perfectly and then typed increasingly thicker cord until the cable was pulled through.
Of course I didn't hear the end of it!
Until I got home from work one day to find a large feather duster lodged up the Dyson, the conversation went like this...
Mrs Tin.
"It got stuck"!
Me.
"Why did you put it up there"?
Mrs T
"To try and get the knitting needle"
Me (beginning to sense something interesting)
"Why was the knitting needle in there"?
Mrs T
"I was after the sock" !
At that point we both started to see the ridiculousness of the thing and had a good laugh but I now hear about her cable sucking genius less often