Electricity > me

So today I got to work at 7:30am. At 7:35am, the power to the entire store goes down, and all that can be heard is the crazed chirping of uninterruptible power supplies begging for power, so they can stop draining their precious battery. I was standing near my boss, and all he had to say was, “Now I’m pissed.”

Being a hardware store, we have all sorts of neato things to help weather a power outage… like, for instance, a generator! We fired that sucker up, ran some cords, and all of the sudden we had lighting, a phone system, and a functioning register.

We sat in the dark for about 2 hours, and then all of the sudden, it was back on. And then the crowds came. An incredible number of cold-at-home or in-the-dark-at-home customers came out of the woodwork and descended on the store, wanting kerosene, propane, heaters, and all manner of other sorts of be-comfortable-but-maybe-burn-your-trailer-park-down products.

Anyway, we had maybe 3 or 4 people staffing a store and a customer volume that typically would be handled by about 7, and did pretty well considering.

I post on something more topical, as my previous entires were, but I’m pooped so all you get is a rendition of what occured. Here’s a link to chew on, this guy needa a new hobby: Pictures of Pennies.