What I Need is... a Drone?!!

I often buy books on Amazon.ca - not because I don't want to support my local bookstore, but because they don't usually carry the books I'm looking for. Book stores carry titles for about six months, then send unsold copies back to the publisher. I don't usually buy the latest best sellers. My buying pattern is to come across a reference to a book in an article or in the bibliographical notes of a book I have enjoyed - then hunt down that title. So most of the books I order have been around for a while.

Occasionally I buy a pottery tool on Amazon.ca as well...

So I was more than amazed when recently Amazon suggested that (based on my buying habits, I presume), I might be interested in purchasing a DRONE?!!

A drone?!! (Not unless they can help me with my quilting!!)

I didn't even know that Amazon carried drones!

As I look at them online, I think that they're what we would have called a remote control plane in my childhood. My brother had one. As I recall, he (and my father) spent most of their time trying to get it to work! These drones on Amazon seem to come equipped with a camera, so I guess they'd mostly be used for taking pictures from overhead... (Another way of taking a "selfie"?!)

I wonder if they come with drone insurance - in case they fall on someone's car - or head!

No, Amazon - I'm not looking for a drone! I'm not interested in taking pictures of myself from above - or in being sued if the drone were to come crashing to the ground - like my brother's remote control plane so often did.

I wonder... Who buys these things?!

Come to think of it, my father (a self-taught car mechanic and inventor) would probably have loved one!