I Broke My Scale!
My scale is broken. This isn’t a joke, it really is broken!
It’s not that I am so heavy that I popped a spring or crushed a sensor… it’s that the stinking battery is dead!
I stood on the scale this morning and it flashed all sorts of funny things. When I flipped it over to change the battery, I discovered that there wasn’t a battery to be replaced. The battery was permanently hardwired and encased inside of the metal underbelly of the scale. So in other words, I have to buy a new scale instead of a new battery.
Grrr.
The scale reads, “This scale contains a built-in, long life, lithium battery. No battery replacement required”… until now!
So now I have to buy a new scale.
The one that died is from Health-o-Meter. (Is it just me or do all products from a company with an “-o-” in their names seem shaky?) Also, it wasn’t very accurate. I’d step on the scale and it would display someone else’s weight just to make me feel better.
At least it wasn’t like the scale my mom had when she was a kid. My brother and I were scared to step on it because every time mom did she screamed!
I was thinking about getting one of those Tanita scales, you know the ones that tell you your percentage of body fat, but those suckers are about a hundred bucks! That’s crazy. If I wanted to pay a hundred bucks to hear bad news I’d see my therapist again.
Pshaw!
5 Responses to “I Broke My Scale!”
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yo mera on May 7th, 2009
get one that is no battery operated…. like the old ones with a disk that blurrs out when you are stepping on and you are like, please please let me be less heavy…til it stops.
Mr. Beer Belly on May 7th, 2009
That’s like the scale on The Biggest Loser. Someone steps on the scale and and it bounces all around for 30 dramatic seconds. You’d think they could afford a faster reacting scale.
Fourinarow on May 21st, 2009
If my scale read 116 like the picture above, I’d hug it. But, it doesn’t and so I hate it. I keep thinking (hoping, praying) that is is broken, but a back-up scales announces the same bad news. I wouldn’t buy the body fat scale… not accurate enough. The only accurate way to get body fat is with a caliber test. I mean, how does a scale know if it’s fat in there or muscle?
Fourinarow on May 21st, 2009
By the way, every time I read your blog I find my self singing Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al”
Mr. Beer Belly on May 22nd, 2009
Fourinarow, you can call me Al or anything your little heart desires… just don’t call me collect!