Dear South Alabama Electric,

Last night my power went off. I believe we have had this conversation before but, I HATE it when the power goes off. It sets into motion a series of events that are unpleasent:

1. lack of fan noise wakes me up

2. I stagger to the kitchen, in the DARK, find phone from 1970's and attempt to locate phone jack

3. find number, call you, listen to insipid recording

4. return to bed and wait, while snoring husband annoys the hell out of me

5. begin to sweat, house becoming hotter than 40 hells

6. smack husband because there is no white noise to even take the edge off of the wall shaking snoring

7. power eventually comes back on, reset clocks so that the flashing 12:00 will not be burned into my retinas

8. attempt to go back to sleep

9. Answer phone 10 minutes after I have gotten back to sleep only to discover it is a FRICKIN recording from YOU letting me know that the outage has been fixed.

10. wake up to no coffee because while I remembered to reset the time I was too out of it to remember the brew timer. Yeah, that one could be my fault, but it still hacks me off.


Pissy and sleepy,

CrankyMomof3