Keep in mind ...
... we never really know anybody's motivations.
It could be she just likes the LOOKS of the Dyson.
Or she really can't afford anything more than a stick vac.
Or there's a powerful childhood memory associated with bagless stick vacs.
I think vintage Kirbys are the perfect melding of beauty and strength in machinery. I even love how they sound. Many people, however, think they're butt-ugly. And it's true, they're not as streamlined or "modern" looking as a Hoover Convertible, which I also really like (mostly because they are, for me, filled with wonderful childhood memories).
A lot of people REALLY like their microwave ovens. I think they're dangerous -- not just because of the EMFs, but because they're scientificaly proven to change the molecular structure of food, which in turn causes problems, over time, with your endocrine system.
But people don't want to hear that. They want to be able to have hot food in 45 seconds, and even when presented with evidence that it literally turns the food into poison, shrug it off, dismissing it with the justification that "well everything will eventually kill us anyway".
Hard to argue with that logic.
