I swear, I will just get ready in the dark and leave to the nearest place that has power.
Sunday night, there was a power outage in all of the apartment buildings in my area, and a few down the street.
Now, I'm really not being an SC or a dick, here. It sucked that the power was out and as the hours went by, I was getting really mad, especially that I was going to be late for work because I hadn't eaten or dressed yet, but Sheriff was the worst part of it all.
Yes, a Sheriff story. Feel free to hit the back page if you don't want to hear about him again. It has been a while, though, and I figured it'd be entertaining.
I had just put a plate of food in the microwave and sat down to watch some trash on TV when *poof*......off went the power. My only lights were my cell phone and the glow from my computer, soley running on the battery.
I instantly heard thumping and scrambling downstairs, so I knew without looking or going outside that we were all out of power, and Old Witch downstairs was going into a frenzy.
I got outside and the neighbor on the end, Crazy Outdoorsman, was grumbling. I lit up a smoke, and sure enough, out runs Sheriff in his skin tight jeans and his trusty cowboy boots (his cowboy hat was absent that night), running up and down the complexes, yelling to everyone that the power was out. Thank you, Captain Obvious! Ok, so he's "special", but seriously.....it's past 9 at night and he's running around in those loud shoes screaming at everyone about something we all already know.
A bunch of people get in their vehicles and go. Probably to the store to get flashlights or candles, or to go to someone else's house.
Neighbor and I stood outside as the truck for the electric company finally showed up, and of course Sheriff was directing them to where the power boxes are ya know, cuz they don't know that.
I'm not even sure what this was about, but from that point on, Sheriff was in and out and in and out of his apartment building, and running around all the complexes. At one point, Old Witch came outside with her flashlight and yelled up to me and neighbor "I just about died, I looked out the window to see what the electric company was doing and Sheriff was standing RIGHT OUTSIDE my bedroom window! I wondered what all that noise was, here he's been running up and down and around all these buildings. I can't believe I didn't scream or fall over dead!"
You can rest assured that if I ever saw him in my window, I would scream so loud, everyone in every building for several blocks would be poking outside to see what was going on. I actually felt sorry for that old woman, for once. That had to be just the worst thing, especially with there being no light whatsoever, seeing that freak of nature staring right at you in your bedroom window, not to mention hearing the thumping of him running around the buildings. This was around 11:15.
But yes, the truck made its rounds to all of our several power boxes until it finally got to the last one, which was the problem one. According to my neighbor, it's always the problem one, he couldn't understand why they didn't go to that one first. And of course, we watched Sheriff keep making rounds and rounds around all the buildings. I don't even know what the hell he was doing. I wonder if he was peeping in everyone's windows like he was to Old Witch. I'm sure he woke several people up, the ones who had been sleeping while this happened. His big boots against the pavement was like firecrackers going off.
The power finally came back on, and Sheriff made yet another round around all the buildings, screaming "THE POWER IS BACK ON!", to which my neighbor muttered "No shit, idiot." Bear in mind, the time is now midnight.
Since the power was back on, and I made my food and got dressed, but since I was already late, figured I'd have one more smoke before work.
I'm sure you already guessed it, but Sheriff was still running amock, but now between the front and back of his building......and there was really no one outside anymore.
Lunatic Lane, is where I live. Guess who is probably not renewing the lease this year? I bet Old Witch is happy she's leaving soon for winter.
Sunday night, there was a power outage in all of the apartment buildings in my area, and a few down the street.
Now, I'm really not being an SC or a dick, here. It sucked that the power was out and as the hours went by, I was getting really mad, especially that I was going to be late for work because I hadn't eaten or dressed yet, but Sheriff was the worst part of it all.
Yes, a Sheriff story. Feel free to hit the back page if you don't want to hear about him again. It has been a while, though, and I figured it'd be entertaining.
I had just put a plate of food in the microwave and sat down to watch some trash on TV when *poof*......off went the power. My only lights were my cell phone and the glow from my computer, soley running on the battery.
I instantly heard thumping and scrambling downstairs, so I knew without looking or going outside that we were all out of power, and Old Witch downstairs was going into a frenzy.
I got outside and the neighbor on the end, Crazy Outdoorsman, was grumbling. I lit up a smoke, and sure enough, out runs Sheriff in his skin tight jeans and his trusty cowboy boots (his cowboy hat was absent that night), running up and down the complexes, yelling to everyone that the power was out. Thank you, Captain Obvious! Ok, so he's "special", but seriously.....it's past 9 at night and he's running around in those loud shoes screaming at everyone about something we all already know.
A bunch of people get in their vehicles and go. Probably to the store to get flashlights or candles, or to go to someone else's house.
Neighbor and I stood outside as the truck for the electric company finally showed up, and of course Sheriff was directing them to where the power boxes are ya know, cuz they don't know that.
I'm not even sure what this was about, but from that point on, Sheriff was in and out and in and out of his apartment building, and running around all the complexes. At one point, Old Witch came outside with her flashlight and yelled up to me and neighbor "I just about died, I looked out the window to see what the electric company was doing and Sheriff was standing RIGHT OUTSIDE my bedroom window! I wondered what all that noise was, here he's been running up and down and around all these buildings. I can't believe I didn't scream or fall over dead!"
You can rest assured that if I ever saw him in my window, I would scream so loud, everyone in every building for several blocks would be poking outside to see what was going on. I actually felt sorry for that old woman, for once. That had to be just the worst thing, especially with there being no light whatsoever, seeing that freak of nature staring right at you in your bedroom window, not to mention hearing the thumping of him running around the buildings. This was around 11:15.
But yes, the truck made its rounds to all of our several power boxes until it finally got to the last one, which was the problem one. According to my neighbor, it's always the problem one, he couldn't understand why they didn't go to that one first. And of course, we watched Sheriff keep making rounds and rounds around all the buildings. I don't even know what the hell he was doing. I wonder if he was peeping in everyone's windows like he was to Old Witch. I'm sure he woke several people up, the ones who had been sleeping while this happened. His big boots against the pavement was like firecrackers going off.
The power finally came back on, and Sheriff made yet another round around all the buildings, screaming "THE POWER IS BACK ON!", to which my neighbor muttered "No shit, idiot." Bear in mind, the time is now midnight.
Since the power was back on, and I made my food and got dressed, but since I was already late, figured I'd have one more smoke before work.
I'm sure you already guessed it, but Sheriff was still running amock, but now between the front and back of his building......and there was really no one outside anymore.
Lunatic Lane, is where I live. Guess who is probably not renewing the lease this year? I bet Old Witch is happy she's leaving soon for winter.
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