[EricH]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

EDIT: at karen, when you had to expend effort to get the vacuum, did the male say that it was useless when you could just vacuum the floor and that it was lazyness, or that it was a dumb idea.

The males were too busy looking at the engineering of the robot. Houston 2003: team 330, having arrived kind of early for the Championship, goes to a local mall for a while. The mentors/parents and students split up to explore, and after a while, the parents group stops in front of a store that has a robotic vacuum cleaner. The battery needs changing, and the robot is kind of flipped over during this process. The engineers were apparently commenting on the robot's design, functionality, etc. The wives were trying to figure out how to get their husbands to get one, or so I hear from one of them.