Electric Shock
One of the joys of living in Greater Metropolitan Arab is the Arab Electric Cooperative. Whereas most electron providers are just that, AEC is an incarnation of coyote. The organization exists primarily for the purpose of providing random pleasure to someone, not the subscribers, by interrupting electron flow in a pseudo-random but optimally inconvenient time, like when you have to get dinner cooked for a large gathering. (This incidentally is why burning foodstuffs on bottled gas grills is so common in GMA.)
This morning the mischief was perpetrated at 0544. FD SCP had just applied shampoo (lacking realpoo or even Winnie-the-Poo) and I was applying dentifrice to my teeth with a battery powered – induction recharged – application wand. The result was a mixed bag. FD SCP, being in shower, which room has a window, was aware of the change in lighting, and the loss of heated water. The adjacent room where the basins are is windowless so while I could continue applying blue gel foamy goop to my teeth I could not see what I was doing, a matter of conern only when I had completed the task. More immediate was FD SCP’s kind compliments of the AEC which were restrained only in comparison to my own as I cycled through the various languages that I know well enough to curse in.
Anyway, somewhere around describing how the management of the utility was undoubtedly the illigitimate and incestuous offspring of a tertiary syphillitic hetaria in Latin – the rhyming is so easy even if it is so different from Greek – the power resumed and after a few minutes of waiting for the other favorite trick of cycling the flow on and off with a period of about a minute or so, we returned to our ablutions with only our bright and cheery outlooks collapsed as if by a gravitational singularity – a charged but non-rotating Kerr-Newman I suspect, although I have not checked to assure myself of the accuracy of my memory. Some questions are better not asked if one knows the answer will be unpleasant.
Anyway, the day is bright, hot, and christened, albeit tardily, by the AEC in their perpetual role as incarnation of Amerind perversity.
