House At Dusk, 1935, Edward Hopper
Thursday, July 8, 2010
30A vs 30C
There’s nothing like knocking a couple of bare wires together to discover that your entire apartment runs on a single 30-amp fuse in the basement of the corner variety store downstairs, which closes at 11:00, and that short of replacing that fuse with a penny or something, you’d be pushing your luck every time you turned on that air conditioner you were planning to buy, stuck in the dark by the tiniest window in the still stifling air with nothing to do but to suffer through a long summer day’s worth of heat seeping slowly through the flat, tar roof.
Added to Magpie Tales—119.
ReplyDeleteIf it's very hot, I think I would risk the penny!
ReplyDeleteGreat job
A 'sparking' Magpie! LOL
ReplyDeleteMy dad used to use tin foil! LOL
ReplyDeleteNice interpretation, fun read!
Very clever take on the prompt. i wonder if he risked it in the end.
ReplyDeleteHe is me, and I didn't.
Deleteand i think this is supposed to be Virginia, so that air conditioner is sooooo necessary in the summer.
ReplyDeleteneither good nor bad
verification makes it really hard to comment. you'd get more comments if you turned it off. i had to do this several times to get it to work.
This is classic!
ReplyDeleteomg...that would be terrible....hope they catch a breeze at least....
ReplyDeleteOf course the fuse box is in the closed variety store. It's my life!! Convenience? Ha! Sorry you had to suffer through that. Thank you for sharing this unfortunate, cautionary tale, Roy.
ReplyDeleteToo good. So true for old houses!
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That sentence is packed to the gills...is it hot in here?
ReplyDeleteLove the unique way you went with this Roy!
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