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Lights out
20 February 2005 19:11Today started out as a very nice day. Mel came over yesterday to do a little shopping on Via Toledo and hang out. We were up talking very late and since she took the metro in, she stayed the night. All wonderful. This morning we all got up, had tea, talked some more. Also, all very pleasant and enjoyable. Around 11.30am I decided that it was time to do a load of socks, so I put them in the washer. Not too long after that, I thought that it would be a good idea to turn on the heater in the bathroom to warm it up for a shower after the washer turned off. This was apparently, a very bad idea. I overloaded the circuit and the power went out. Unfortunately, I was unaware that I had blown the circuit, you see, I checked all of the breakers in our apartment and none of them were off. So, we sat in the living room for the rest of the day talking, with no heat. This was also, very enjoyable. At one point, I took responsibility for for the outage because I had commented earlier in the morning about the fact that we hadn't had a power outage in a couple of days. I was thinking that it was just the universe giving me a little smack.
Around 6.45pm our neighbor comes home and almost instantly, our power is restored!! Mel has gone home by now and Bart and I have already looked around the block and have noticed that it is really only our building that is lacking power, so we are suspicious as to the nature of our plight and the return of our power coinciding perfectly with our neighbor's homecoming got us to thinking....Maybe there is a Master Power Switch out in the hall that we don't know about...so we go out to ask.
What we learn in our conversation with our very nice neighbor, is that the Master Power Switch for our building is in her apartment. In her apartment. How could we have known that? Honestly, we should have been told that. So, we sat here all day with no power because I am a bad Neopolitan who ran too many appliances at once and because our landlord and our neighbors neglected to tell us that the breakers in our apartment are effectively useless. I am a little irritated by the whole thing for many reasons, not the least of which is that Livio did not call us back when we finally tried to contact him about the outage. You see, he has a key to their apartment and could have come flip the breaker. We do not have a key, however useful that would be.
We will be having a talk with Livio soon. I think I will also mention that the floor in the bedroom is caving in and we have cracked a couple of tiles.
I am done with all of this rain.
Around 6.45pm our neighbor comes home and almost instantly, our power is restored!! Mel has gone home by now and Bart and I have already looked around the block and have noticed that it is really only our building that is lacking power, so we are suspicious as to the nature of our plight and the return of our power coinciding perfectly with our neighbor's homecoming got us to thinking....Maybe there is a Master Power Switch out in the hall that we don't know about...so we go out to ask.
What we learn in our conversation with our very nice neighbor, is that the Master Power Switch for our building is in her apartment. In her apartment. How could we have known that? Honestly, we should have been told that. So, we sat here all day with no power because I am a bad Neopolitan who ran too many appliances at once and because our landlord and our neighbors neglected to tell us that the breakers in our apartment are effectively useless. I am a little irritated by the whole thing for many reasons, not the least of which is that Livio did not call us back when we finally tried to contact him about the outage. You see, he has a key to their apartment and could have come flip the breaker. We do not have a key, however useful that would be.
We will be having a talk with Livio soon. I think I will also mention that the floor in the bedroom is caving in and we have cracked a couple of tiles.
I am done with all of this rain.