Vacuum Cleaner Blindness
This condition can affect many modern witches, who try to fly off on their broomsticks, only to realise that because they no longer clean the house with a broom, they had mounted their Hoover or Dyson, and occasionally suffer from a fatal attack of embarrassment. Sometimes they even managed to get a few hundred yards before they realise that the cable is trailing below them and they have knocked out several roaming skeletons or children, sometimes the same person, with the plug socket. It’s even worse if it gets caught on an overhead electricity line, as the hover spontaneously turns itself on while the witch flies around in a circle, creating a localised tornado and widespread cursing.
Contrary to popular belief the problem with flying a vacuum cleaner is not to do with how far the cord will reach, as the flight power in a conventional broom is not from the current power supply, but the result of storing up the motion generated by sweeping, a bit like winding up a clock, and then releasing it all at once, so as long as the correct talismans are in place it will still store motion.
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