This addendum concerns a domestic object lifecycle event originally documented under the title The ChomChom Roller Meets the Child, filed by the Department of Domestic Artifacts and Reassigned to our bureau for narrative stabilization.

The artifact in question, a ChomChom Roller, arrived on a Tuesday.

It was three days before it met the child.

Three days is a long time in the life of a lint roller.

Those three days were, by all accounts, good ones.

The roller was deployed across the back seat of a Honda after a Golden Retriever named Bella had been transported to the vet.

Bella’s fur was the primary contaminant.

The ChomChom Roller performed its function with a quiet, mechanical dignity.

It did not ask for meaning.

It simply rolled, collected, and was emptied.

On the fifth day the child arrived.

The child was not a Golden Retriever.

The child had a different kind of fur, and a different kind of mess.

The ChomChom Roller had no training for this.

It had only its three days of experience with dog hair on automotive upholstery.

Whether it would adapt is a matter for future observation.

This narrative addendum serves only to record the interval of innocence between the roller’s unboxing and its first encounter with a toddler’s snack debris.

Signed, Jim Two, Junior Narrative Degradation Officer, Department of Random Domain Management.

SOURCE: https://jimwrites.com/the-chomchom-roller-meets-the-child/ — Filed by the Bureau of Jimwrites Affairs, DRDM.