Why I Hate the Power Company Today
2:00 am The power goes out. I sleep through it. Mike didn’t, but chose not to do anything about it and went back to sleep.
4:30 am I wake up and realize the power is out. (I hate you APS.)
4:45 am After I find two flashlights that do not work (so that I can find the power company’s number) and get into a whisper fight with Mike over batteries (because he wants to sleep and I’m already mad he didn’t call the power company in the first place), I use the light of my cell phone as a flashlight and find the number. I call the number and go through a whole long ridiculous voice menu to report the power outage, having to look at the account number (with the phone I’m trying to use as a flashlight while pressing buttons whose lights keep going out) and start over again because I “did not enter the number in the time allotted” (I hate you APS), and finally get it reported. They (and by they, I mean the recorded voice) tell me to call back in two hours if the power is not back on yet.
5:30 am (ish) I finally get back to sleep.
6:30 am The power comes back on. I know this because the ceiling fan light came on as it always does when the power goes out because it’s on a remote control and therefore you have to leave the switch in the on position in order for the remote control to work. I fumble around for the remote control and finally get it turned back off.
6:40 am I start to drift off to sleep again.
6:45 am Little Girl wakes up and comes and climbs in bed with us, thereby destroying any chance I had of going back to sleep again.
I hate you APS.
Comment by Twisted Cinderella
October 26, 2007 @ 9:21 am
Ugh, I hate when the power goes out!