But a rotating fan gathers LOST of dust!
I learned something about dust one day in confirmation class. (That was not the pastor's plan that day, I'm sure.) After our section on the commandments, all of us 8th-graders were taking a quiz. "True or false? Betsy shows respect for God's Word by dusting her Bible every week." Everybody in class (except one girl) answered "true." Pastor said the answer was "false." The class protested. Turns out that our misunderstanding had more to do with cleaning than with valuing God's word. Pastor (and the one girl who got the right answer) insisted that a Bible that is used won't get dusty. Pastor said that it shows more love for God's word to be reading it than to leave it sit unused to get dusty.
Anyway ...
According to that logic, a fan should grow dustier when sitting still than when being used. Guess what? When I began to keep house, I learned that's not the way it works. The other day, I found lights and fan on in an empty room. Buttinsky me turned off the light and the fan. And this picture shows what I found. Yuck! I wonder how long it's been since that fan was off?
I dust my Bible every week (weeelll... I like to think I dust it every week) even though I use it every day. You can't just dust the rest of the shelf and not dust the Bible too.
ReplyDeleteThat is one dusty fan. My fans ended up looking like that last summer after about a month or two of non-stop usage.