My sister and I always shared a room. 7 years my senior, Tara usually operated with complete disregard for my state of slumber during her morning routine – blow drying her hair in our room while I slept, and, essentially moving about as if I did not exisit.
In hindsight, I got even by moving to her bed once she left for school. Her bed was located next to the air condition which was, presumably, on purpose. After, she left, I’d throw my blankets on her bed and relish in the comfort of being under a thousand layers of cotton and rayon in a freezing room, sometimes squealing with delight.
This one particular morning, I delayed in going to her bed feeling immobilized for no apparent reason. Laying in my bed, day dreaming about being older and the fancy, exiciting life I would have, I heard a sound I never heard before: actual electronic sparks. It looked and sounded like lighting bolts from a cartoon shooting out of the air conditioner and onto my sisters bed.
I screamed my bloody head off.
Known to be little melodramatic, it took a while to convince my parents of what happened.
My father, Ed, whom was employed by Con Ed phoned in a complaint. Luckily the sparks didn’t cause a fire, but Con Edison came to take a look at what happened as a favor to my dad.
They said two things that day that blew my mind: a. this resulted from a squirrel messing with the poles outside my window and b. I would had been electrocuted. In other words, I would have been killed by a squirrel.
After that I never went in Tara’s bed.
One would assume this would never happen again, but two weeks later, it did. This time, the sparks just happen to miss my sister by a hair of a second. Tara and I plotted the death a squirrel clearly spawned from Satan. As usual, because it happened to my sister whom my parents loved more than me, we moved our beds after that and went easy on the air conditioner for once.
Whenever I think of this, it confirms my belief in divine intervention and rodents are satan henchmen as are bed bugs and colicy babies.
most likely would wouldnt have died but if youre still afraid of that get a ground fault indicator outlet or an arc fault outlet. rayon though, lol, u would have went up in a few seconds richard pryor style
ReplyDeleteboth can be had for abouts 20 bucks and im sure ur manly man bf can install them for u, or i can for some beer and an A in his final research project hes killing my free time with. afterwards of course