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Things Ike Has Taught Me
- Coffee and frozen pizzas can be made on a BBQ grill.
- Hot pockets taste pretty good deep fried on the outdoor cooker!
- My car gets 23.21675 miles per gallon, EXACTLY
- He who has the biggest generator wins.
- A new method of non-lethal torture -- showers without hot water.
- TV is an addiction and the withdrawal symptoms are painful.
- Flood plain drawings on some mortgage documents were seriously wrong.
- People will get into a line that has already formed without having any idea what the line is for.
- Hampers were not made to contain such a volume.
- If I had a store that sold only ice, chainsaws, gas and generators... I'd be rich.
- Waterfront property can quickly become someone else's fishing hole.
- Tree service companies are underappreciated.
- MATH 101: 30 days in month, minus 10 days without power equals 30% higher electric bill??
- I can walk a lot farther than I thought.
- Heat makes you be brutally honest!!!!
- You can never have too many gas cans!
- Suddenly you realize you DO have neighbors!
- Neighbors are much more sociable when your trees are being removed from their houses.
- That neighbor who knows how to use a chainsaw is your new best friend.
- What looks acceptable by candlelight in your bathroom will scare you when you look at yourself in the mirror at the office.
- Coffee is NOT a luxury - it's a staple! And withdrawal is hell!
- Rather than campfires, you find families huddled about tiny battery-operated televisions to watch The Simpsons.
- Peanut butter and jelly is a perfectly acceptable meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner in the same day.
- Ice is a form of currency.
- Coming home from work with a pizza and a charged-up laptop so the kids can watch a DVD makes you a hero.
- You run out of things to barbecue after Day 3.
- Hair can dry without a blow dryer, but it may not look the way you planned.
- Baseball caps go with any post-hurricane ensemble.
- You can't train yourself not to flip on light switches when entering a room.
- Lukewarm is the new cold.
- It's easier to ignore a dirty house when you can't see it.
- A new opening phrase when seeing someone: 'Got lights yet?'
- Daydreaming consists of thinking about what you will do when the freak'n power comes back on!
3 comments:
Wondering how you survived without "Pet Show" or "Pet Smart" or "Pet Hound" or "Pet Fall Cleaning."
Whatever it was.
Pet Star - got it.
This is funny but yet it's not. And I take those everyday things for granted. shame on me. Want some of my electricity? I'll share. ;)
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