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That's an awesome story!!!

I can't believe after only 5 years she dumped it for something else. I would have been livid if I could not have been involved in the demo!!! My parents always let me sit front and center thank God. I remember when we bought the Filter Queen. They didn't tell me a vacuum was coming (I don't think they knew either) we were told it was an air purifier. I was like yawn boring but then the girl sat down the box and I was like hey wait that looks like it very well could be a vacuum box. Then the hose came out but still they called it an air purifier. Then the power nozzle came out and I could have done back flips. I was like OMG an air purifier that also vacuums!!!! My dad insisted we have it. In 1997 it was right at $2000 plus tax (no trade, I was NOT going to let mom trade our vacuums in) I still have the machine and paperwork.     A few weeks before that we had a Kirby guy show up selling the G-5. I begged Mom to buy it. We got down to $1,000 and still no way. If it was Kirby or Rainbow my Mom always said and I quote. 2 vacuums I will never have are Kirby and Rainbow, Kirby because it's to damn heavy and Rainbow because I don't want to spend 30 minutes cleaning the son of a bitch up after (she vacuumed 3 times a day) then she would say and I'm not fond of Electrolux either because that's what grandma had grown up and it was a piece of shit..... I love the way my Mom words things.        One thing about that Filter Queen demo I always though was odd... The lady took a hammer and hit the chrome top of the filter queen and said see it's indestructible and could even fall down a flight of stairs and our hose is so strong you could even stomp on it and it won't smash. She then stood on the WIRE reinforced hose.   haha Mom should have insisted on a "new unit" to be delivered after it got beat with a hammer and then the hose getting stomped on.


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