It’s good to have electricity
August 26th, 2007 2:37 pm
I think this calls for a sexy party, yeah?
As we’re packing the car Friday night about 12:30 a.m. to go stay at my sister-in-law’s, a ComEd utility truck pulls up near the building. They two guys in it are staring at the building seeing if it has power. To the untrained eye, it looks like it does because of all the emergency lights that are illuminated. Katie and I are just staring at the truck trying to do mind control it and will it to stop.
Finally they pull up beside our car and ask if we have power. I tell them that we, and the two buildings next to us are indeed without power. Guy responds, “We’ll try to get you up and running by morning.” I thank the guy telling him that would be awesome and get in the car and leave.
After we get to Becky and Adam’s and we’re about to go to bed, I decide to call our apartment number. (Since the phone is powered by our building’s electric connection, if it rings, that means we have power). I call about 1:30 a.m. just to amuse myself before I go to bed. Sure enough, it rings.
That means it took them less than 45 minutes to fix the issue. That’s kind of frustrating considering we were without power for 36 hours. Anyway, I understand the fact that they can only take care of so many problems at once. Something tells me all they did was duct tape two wires together. Whatever, I’m just glad to have power back before it starts to really get hot again on Monday.
Yesterday we went to the zoo with Katie’s mom and then went out to dinner with her that night. We live about two blocks from the zoo so it’s always fun to hop over there to at different times of the day to see how the animals act. Dinner was phenomenal. I had steak because I was watching Iron Chef America before we left and the big food item of the night was wild boar. It made my mouth water for a big piece of red meat. I would not recommend watching the Food Network before you go to dinner.
Hope everyone else has been having a good weekend.
Yeah, I felt the same way about our power when it was out. 16-17 hours off, truck pulls up and back on in 20 minutes. Like, wtf were you doing for 16 hours before that (again, mind you, we don’t live in the boonies). And yeah, there is the whole “I bet they had a lot to get to before us” so I can only be so bitter, but I know how slow these cockbites are, coupled with the fact that I suspect they didn’t even work through the night on, for us at least, was probably the biggest/worst storm of the season.
Like, sorry unionized fat yinzer dudes, get in the truck and start splicing, yeah?
Stupid weather.
Glad to hear you got your power back on. At least you ate well while you were without power the last couple of days. I almost wish mine would go out now. Not really though. I would hate the thought of depending on other peoples places to go the bathroom or shower. Fuck that.
Have you heard from that old guy? I hope he’s doing alright.
LOL, oh shit I meant to add that to the story.
Katie went and checked on Cliff Friday afternoon after work. Not only was someone else checking on him at the same time (dude is pretty popular), but he offered Katie a gin and tonic. When she declined, he asked if she would like a glass of sherry instead.
Old man was tryin’ to liquor up my wife. WTF?
Katie found out he has Parkinson’s and he actually DID walk up and down the steps. He said he HAD to go see somoene at Fidelity so walking down was easy. To walk up, he got a newspaper and would walk up two flights then sit on the windowsill and read his paper for 15 minutes, then rinse and repeat. It probably took him 90 minutes just to walk up.
Oh Cliff.
So if your wife gets pregnant and spits out a kid with Progeria, WE KNOW WHO BURIED THE SEED, yeah?
too soon?
Hmm, she WAS down there an awfully long time…