When the lights went out?
Where were you and what were you doing?
I'm not usually one to post links to interesting websites or articles on here, but this one was funny, and has an interesting personal story to go along with it. Basically this article is saying that the theory behind a blackout baby boom is bull. (say that three times fast, I dare you!)
Now I don't know about anybody else, but I had a good time during the blackout last year. I was driving home from work when I noticed the traffic lights were out. Got home, no lights. No cell service either. Finally it dawned on me that this could be bigger than just my immediate area. Once I finally turned on my car radio later that night I learned how widespread the blackout was. Thankfully we have a gas stove top at home, so I was able to at least feed myself.
Elena was supposed to be working that night, but without power, there was no sense in keeping a restaurant open. Plus, I think she said that there was a gas leak that night, so they sent her home. She had a generator at her house and told me to come on over, which I did. At about 10 at night the lights came back on by her and like the geniuses we were, we figured that power had been restored to all of Long Island. My parents were in Hawaii at the time for two weeks, so it was cool for Elena to stay at my house, (which it still is, even when my parents are home, but at that point we weren't that comfortable doing that). I wanted to go back to my house, so we flipped a coin for it. Heads, her head was hitting her own pillow that night, tails and her ass was in my bed, (just what I like to hear). Naturally it was tails, so I won.
We got in my car and started driving the 20 or so minutes to my house and we begin to notice that not all the houses have lights. Sure enough, they don't and when we got to my house there still was no power. No sweat. We just opened up the windows to get a breeze and got ready to go to bed. I went into the bathroom and took my contacts out via flashlight. When I got back to my room Elena was in there, dressed in something very nice with candles lit. A good time was had, I must say, and the kicker to the story is this, just as everything was "completed", like that exact second, the lights came back on in my house! That's a moment I don't think I'll ever forget. We just busted out laughing at how odd a coincidence that was!
So I don't know about that article, but I definitely took advantage of the blackout to get intimate.
Comments
Sounds like a good way to pass time during a blackout! Fortunately you two didn't add to the baby boom ;)
Posted by: Jenniy | May 14, 2004 10:15 AM