there seems to be lots of power failures here in the twin-cities... and coaxing myself out of bed this morning after a surprise phonecall from DSD!! i realised that the other cordless phone and it's base station went dead and i was baffled. after tormenting myself over playing with the message-recording button for too long the night before... i figured that i might not be the culprit afterall... i opened up the fridge to get some soya milk for tea only to realise that it remained dark inside...
everything powered by electricity must have gone dead for some 2 hours... but the old-fashioned phone, the other spare phone, courtesy of my colleague (who's been ever so kind in helping me settle into this place and crazy country), worked.
why did we forget about this in our design of our modern phones?! it is during power failures etc. that you need to use the phone (most?!) to call someone for help...
what can i say?! hang on to your old-fashioned phones!!! they could save your life.
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Sunday, 28 August, 2005 at 23:58 hrs
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