One day ...
I timed how long it took me to put my Fantom away from the minute I turned it off until I shut the door to the closet where it is stored: 20 seconds.
Compared to Mark's four and a half minutes -- that's a four minute and ten second savings.
That doesn't sound like much, but if you use your vacuum three times a week like I do, that savings adds up over the course of a year to nearly TWELVE HOURS.
That's nearly an entire waking day of your life every year fussing with a water pan.
And even on a daily level, any New Yorker can tell you what a difference four and a half minutes makes. It means the difference between catching or not catching that subway train, which means the difference between catching or not catching that transfer out out to JFK, which means the difference between missing or not missing your $1500 non-refundable, non-transferable flight to that meeting in LA you will miss that COULD have meant a multi-million dollar Hollywood deal.
If only you weren't pissing around with a vacuum water pan.