Brush with celebrity

I was listening to the radio while I was folding laundry, and the host asked for listeners to text him pictures of their pets. I thought, "He's gonna be sorry when he gets inundated with pet pics." I always thought people who text the radio station must be lonely and sad. I'm neither lonely nor sad, and I've never had the urge to text some disembodied voice on the air that belongs to a person I've never met. But for some reason, here I was sending a picture of my baby robins to this guy. He immediately texted back, and even engaged me with a question. We ended having an actual back-and-forth conversation, and then I heard him mention me on the air! 

It reminded me of another brush with celebrity that happened a couple years ago. I sent a message to the  lead translator of The Passion Translation of the Bible after finding a typo in his footnotes. I was shocked that he responded and engaged me in a conversation that's been going on for over two years now. He's a delightful guy, full of wisdom and revelation, yet humble enough to chat with me. 

Instructions

 I'm not a big fan of reading instructions, especially for something I already know how to use. But I had questions about my new hair clippers, so I read the manual cover to cover. It was amusing, but answered exactly zero of my questions. 

My clientele has grown to the point where I need better equipment, so I invested $20 at Walmart.  A big draw for me was that they have color-coded combs, because I can no longer see the tiny numbers on my old ones. Yes, the combs have different colors, but that doesn't make them "color-coded" if there is no code! The numbers are just as tiny as they are on the old black ones. They're pretty, but also pretty useless. I think the purple one is #2,which is what I use on most of my customers, and purple is my favorite color, so that will be easy to remember. 

I want to know how to oil the blades and what I'm supposed to use the tiny brush for, but the manual says nothing about that. Actually, I haven't even been able to turn them on yet. Is the red thing part of the power switch, or am I supposed to remove the red thing to access the power switch? No mention of it in the manual.  

But I do have these handy tips: 

"Keep it in good care" amused me, for some reason.

Somehow I don't think calling Walmart and asking them about proper disposal is going to yield beneficial results.  I thought about doing it, just for jollies, but decided against it. Same with my local government officials.  Maybe an entertaining project for another day. 

"Big Comb" seems a little overdramatic. It's not much bigger than "Brush" in the picture,
 and in reality it's just a normal-sized comb.