I almost got trapped in the neighborhood where I ride my bike by roadwork last week. They were laying down new pavement on the street I take to leave the neighborhood, and my only alternate route out was blocked by the new pavement too. Luckily I went back to the first road, and it turned out they left a gap in the new pavement just big enough for a car/bike/horse to cross the street and get out of the neighborhood.
My power went out during a light rain today and it took them 5 hours to fix it. The A/C being off was the worst part.
Try having Lightening shooting into your land-line, frying two phones and a modem and missing having contact w/ friends like you for a couple of days. But I know the local phone guy.
To add: I am old enough to know what it was like to not have A/C. We had an old saying, "Every time a dog pissed on the pole...the lights went out."
My previous apartment had windows that didn’t support AC units. All I could do was crank the fans. It made it extremely hard to sleep when it got above 90.
I saw an ad the other day that said this: "Is your wife hot? A/C service!" Geez... On an unrelated matter, I read that the old Boston Garden didn't have A/C. Must have been murderously hot in there, esp. during Celtics games.
I don’t remember that, then again I only went once or twice and not in seasons where they would have played past April. I only remember all the obstructed view seats.
I had a flash-back of being in Municipal Stadium in Cleveland--a.k.a. The Mistake by the Lake--, those "obstructed" seats were infamous.
During a trip to Boston a few years ago I remember one game at Fenway Park where my seat was - through some quirk of engineering - literally the only one in its row. Quite eerie...
There were multiple ones in old Muni directly behind the support beams. "here's your seat, enjoy the game and the view."
The old Boston Garden had some seats right behind support beams, and also some seats in the balconies where the ceiling was hard to see around. But at least it had plenty of shade, you know, with all those banners.
Because of a recent uptick in COVID cases and the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, Los Angeles County is once again requiring everyone to wear masks in public, including those who've been vaccinated. And just when I thought I would never have to wear one of those damn things again.
When Canada Post decides that your package, sent from a city a mere two hours up the highway, needs to spread its wings and see more of the world, so instead of sending it directly like usual, they decide to route it through a neighbouring province.