I'm at my work apartment last night, showering up after a trip to the gym -- and the power goes out! At first it was on-again off-again, and then it was just off. There are no windows in my bathroom...it was so dark I couldn't see my hand in front of my face.
Okay, so I manage to bathe in the dark. But then I'm trying to get ready for bed and I can't see a damn thing. Then I remember -- I have mandles! They're right there in the same spot where I put them a year ago when I moved in. Lit twice in the first week, then expelled from my mind altogether.
Matches? No problem. I keep them stacked OCD-style on my cigar box, right there on the dinner table.
Once I got everything under control with the mandles, I took a look outside. Sure 'nuf, the whole neighborhood was blacked out. Eerie! I was glad it wasn't a fuse in my building, because I might have actually had to deal with that myself.Added bonus: no power means I couldn't set my alarm clock, so I got to sleep in!
1 comment:
I HATE when the power goes off while showering. I'm afraid of the dark.
Kate--I heard about that bloody mary thing in the mirror, I wonder if that works. Maybe I don't want to know. That's scary. I do however, enjoy a nice bloody mary after a hangover on a Sunday morning-now THAT's a good thing!
Great blog! I'm in upstate NY too.
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