Last week, it got up to seventy-five degrees in this neck of the woods... a temperature which, by my standards, clocks in at just a small step below fucking miserable. So, I went to the trusty
Wal*Mart and purchased the Holmes HAWF2021 Window Fan with the assumption that this device would alleviate the heat problem, if only in a minor way.
The contraption was purchased in the evening, around nine o'clock... therefore, when I brought it into the dwelling, it was down to a much more reasonable forty degrees outside. Being the typical slacker, I didn't bother putting it into the window... after all, why waste time rigging it up when the benefits wouldn't immediately be reaped?
Fast forward to today. Seventy-seven fucking degrees outside. I feel as though I'm suffocating, so I break out the fan that will have my chambers icy-cold in no time. Pop open the box, look at the fan, and shed a tear.
For those of you who have never owned a window fan, they normally work as such: they have a few temperature settings (high or low, normally), and a intake / outtake switch. If it's hotter outside than it is inside, you want to use outtake... if it feels nice outside, intake is the way to go. I've owned a good deal of these fans in my day, and even when I purchased the $5 model at my local ghetto dollar store, it still had all of the basic controls included.
So, back to the story. Tears are being shed after looking at this fan that I have sunk thirty bucks on. Why am I bawling, you may ask? This fan has no intake / outtake switch. Thinking that I had just overlooked something, I wiped away enough tears to read the instructions, which read as follows: To switch the fan from intake to exhaust, reverse the positioning of the fan in the window.
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If I, a fine and upstanding citizen if I do say so myself, decide that better results may be achieved via another method of air control, I would be required to raise the shades, open the window, remove the fan from the window, turn the whole device around, put it back in the window, put the window itself back down, and finally, put the shades down. All of this because they couldn't put one goddamned intake / outtake switch on the fan.
Back to Wally World this piece of shit will go, yes sir.