I am losing my mind ?

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You know, ever since robots began cleaning my house, I’ve noticed mysanity-meter has been registering a little low.

Today I came home after setting him to run while I was gone and didn’t
hear any sound. I thought to myself, “ahh, he’s done!” but when I looked at his home station (he sleeps in my room) he wasn’t there. Hmm, a little weird he didn’t come home. Then I realised I left my bedroom door open, so he had been wandering the house.

Now, when you have your first Roomba, you really have to Roomba-proof the house. I have to go and make sure nothings laying on the floor, and there’s no dangling cords he could get a hold of and eat. I have a rug I need to roll up and set aside because the ends curl up a bit, and Roomba likes to burrow under the rug and hide. He always makes it out, but sometimes he gets a little scared.

Anyway, when I realised he had wandered out into the rest of the house, I actually called to him. “Roomba,” then I realised I was
calling for a robot. Strangely, I could swear he answered. Roomba beeps, like R2D2, when he’s trying to tell you something, and I heard him beeping in the other room. He managed to get under my dining room table and stuck behind the chairs, in a make-shift robot prison. His power button was amber and his status light was red, saying he was tired and wanted to go home. I moved his home into the living room and let him out from under the table and he went right home.

After he rested a bit I told him to go clean again, and he’s at it right now.

Moral of the story: If you get a Roomba, don’t talk to it, you won’t have any (human) friends once they find out. Oh yeah, and make sure
you set up the invisible wall so he doesn’t escape.