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Article: Home Front: Fighting dirty Ann Treneman gets sucked into the vacuum cleaner wars. Illustration by Toby Morison
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 27, 1998
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he moment I saw Richard I liked him, which, considering it was
early Saturday morning and he was a vacuum-cleaner salesman, was
pretty surprising. "I think you are expecting me," he said. I
shrugged. After all, if there is one thing that confuses me it is
vacuum cleaners. Why, you have to wonder, can't they make one that
works? Perhaps Richard would know. Plus, there must be a
demonstration involved. I'd never seen a man actually use a vacuum
cleaner. Richard and his Filter Queen might prove to be both
informative and entertaining.
He stepped inside. He was in his late twenties to early fifties.
His shoes were cheap and brown and there were the remains of a price
sticker on one sole. His ...