I’ve got a few vacation days to use up before the end of the year so I decided to take one today.
There I was taking a nice nap when I was awakened to the sound of all of the electronics in the house shutting off. I quickly grabbed my smart phone and called the power company… there is an outage in my area affecting over 1,000 people.
I suddenly realized I was going to be roughing it.
I had left over chili and lasagna in the fridge, but no microwave. Sure, I have a gas cook top but that would mean I would dirty a pan and the dishwasher isn’t working so it would be a lot of hard manual labor to clean it.
I went out and thought since it is a nice day that it would be ok convertible weather so even though I had put the car up for the winter I decided to take it… but, the battery was dead. That meant I had to go into the garage and disengage the garage door opener and lift the door up… BY HAND!
Then after I backed the car out I had to put it back down again… BY HAND! Anyway, after all of this hard work I drove to the ATM, got some cash and picked up a burger and fries. Got back home and repeated the whole garage door procedure again, and came inside to eat. I frantically looked around to see if I could find a magazine or something because I remembered this old survival skill where you could do this thing called reading. Otherwise I would have been left looking at just my burger and some dark screens. Fortunately I discovered that these magazines had “pictures” in addition to the words so I didn’t really have to dig deep and actually read. The pictures didn’t move, but again… I was roughing it.
Suddenly the power came back on… WHEW! Now I know what it must be like to be Amish.
That was the longest 45 minutes of my life. I think I’ll take another nap now.
