Yesterday I was working on the computer when the power went out. Luckily, it was still daylight and not very cold outside. I cursed the electric company under my breath as I always do, remembering an article in the local paper a few years ago about the inordinate amount of power outages this particular power company has every year. Well over 30,000 and, apparently, all but a dozen or so occur in my hometown. But then I got to thinking about the real cause of the power outages and my face flushed red with embarrassment.
Every time there's a power outage here that's long enough to knock out the VRC programs and the kitchen clock, what do I do? I spend the next couple days or so re-programing all the VCRs and the TVs that don’t have a built-in battery backup. And I reset all the electric clocks that don’t have battery backup or the ones where their backup systems simply don’t work. And both answering machines and two clock-radios and all the rest. And then what invariably happens after all the electric and electronic hardware in this house is reset and reprogrammed? We have another power failure.
So, the real reason for all the power outages in this town is not really because of the power company at all but because of me and all my crazy resetting and reprogramming and I’d simply forgotten that. I hope no one around here finds out that I’m the real reason the power goes out so regularly in this town and punches my lights out, or worse. But then, again, they’re probably too busy resetting and reprogramming to even think about that.
Every time there's a power outage here that's long enough to knock out the VRC programs and the kitchen clock, what do I do? I spend the next couple days or so re-programing all the VCRs and the TVs that don’t have a built-in battery backup. And I reset all the electric clocks that don’t have battery backup or the ones where their backup systems simply don’t work. And both answering machines and two clock-radios and all the rest. And then what invariably happens after all the electric and electronic hardware in this house is reset and reprogrammed? We have another power failure.
So, the real reason for all the power outages in this town is not really because of the power company at all but because of me and all my crazy resetting and reprogramming and I’d simply forgotten that. I hope no one around here finds out that I’m the real reason the power goes out so regularly in this town and punches my lights out, or worse. But then, again, they’re probably too busy resetting and reprogramming to even think about that.
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