After eleven straight days of no power, limited infrastructure and isolation from the world at large, I GOT THE POWER!
Here is what I learned.
#10: Good news for the guys: the new “7 inches” is actually 20.
#9: It really is possible to point one finger at Scot Haney, shake your fist at the trees and extend a middle finger to CL&P all with the same hand.
#8: Men returning home after 4 ½ hours with five gallons of gas will actually behave like cavemen returning from the hunt.
#7: It is entirely possible to get off on the sound of a ringing telephone and beeping appliances.
#6: If Ben Franklin and Thomas Edison were alive and living in Connecticut, they would get laid whenever and wherever they wanted. Powdered wigs and all.
#5: Fishing dirty clothes out of the laundry and wearing them inside out will make you feel like a movie star.
#4: Once the generator is hooked up, you will become a spoiled, whining brat all over again. Case in point: “Why the hell isn’t the dishwasher hooked up to the generator? Are you telling me I have to wash all these by hand?!”
#3: You will find yourself arguing in circles with everyone taking up residence under your roof.
Doug (in response to #4): “Just do it like they do in the Army. You take out one plate, one bowl, one cup and one fork for yourself, and you wash them every time you use them.”
Me: “Whether I wash the same damn dish 500 times or wash 500 different ones, how is that less work?”
Anna: “Damn! Damn!”
Eva: “MAMA CAN I WATCH DORA?”
Me: “Eva! What have I been telling you all week? The TV, phone and computer are broken!”
Eva: “Oh. But can I watch Dora?”
#2: After a week and a half of social isolation, you will find yourself muttering to the gnats walking across your computer screen.
#1: Driving through storm wreckage…more fun than Xbox 360!
Up next…the top 10 things I learned about children after 11 days of no power, TV, phone or Internet