Tonight I was quietly cooking dinner, the normal sounds and smells permiate the house when suddenly, shazam! All sites and sounds cease and the house plunges into darkness. There is NO electricity. I stand for a second, perplexed. Hmm.. when will it come back. A minute passes, nothing changes. I look out the window.. no streetlights. Shit! I begin to look around for that flashlight I know I have somewhere. It is made of glow in the dark material, just for an occasion like this. Where is it? Where is it?!? Then I remember that the glow in the dark material annoyed me so I conviently had placed it in the back of the cabinet under the sink behind all the cleaning supplies and the approximately 2 billion plastic grocery bags that I save, thinking I'll use someday for something, but no normal person could ever find that many uses for. I can't see, it's too dark. On auto-pilot I reach up above the sink to turn on the light. Right! No electricity. After digging around for a few minutes in the back of the cabinet, I finally find the flashlight and turn it on. The light provided is weak at best. The battery must be close to dead. Damn! I turn around to the left, I turn to the right. What am I supossed to do now.. me and my flashlight. Sadly, I think.. well, at least there is no potential of having to see the Red Sox lose to the Royals again without tv. Another minute goes by. I'm bored and I'm standing here with a flashlight. Must go out! Can't stay here, obviously. I mean how is a person supossed to survive without tv or the internet for even a short period of time? There are limits. hahah.. Even as I was thinking it, I was laughing at myself. Then picked up my purse and left.
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