Shop-vac

Wet/dry shop-vacs are in principle a good idea except when you need to switch them from dry to wet mode, and have to remove the dusty filter and empty out the container which has some disgusting remnants from who knows when, then put it back together and take it into your basement which got wet because water streamed in under the old bulkhead door  during this afternoon’s downpour and directed it down the basement stairs making huge puddles in your basement, so then you go down there and have to maneuver this large shop vac through the clutter of old baby paraphernalia which is all over the basement, and as you are vacuuming up the water you realize you are only wearing your socks and they are wet and the extension cord for the vacuum is sitting in a puddle, and you realize you have not thought this through before starting because you are exhausted after putting the kids to bed who were acting like they had eight espressos, and so you vacuum the water anyway and when you are done you open up the vacuum to find a few gallons of brown liquid which you proceed to dump down the basement sink and leave some sticky residue behind which you then have to wash off as you stand there in your cold wet feet.