demonicpicaxeguy
Senior Member
the sun isn't up and i'm already in pain
at 3.30 ish this morning i got woken up by my very sweaty 6 year old son letting me know that he had had a nightmare because the nightlight had gone out, i realised after trying to look around that the power was out after quick trip to the meter box (fun - not)
it turned out somthing in the house was causing a fault and tripping the switch,30 mins later after many many trips to the meterbox the trip switch stayed up,
since the wife was awake now with no prospect of going back to sleep i thought i might make coffee, i went to the kettle grabbed the lead to plug it in (it's one of those ones you plug in at the back) and BANG!, i had just discovered the hard way what the cause of the fault was, the local field rats (that had been evicted by the local council when they cleared some land behind our house) had been busy chewing at this cord that i had just grabbed,
to make things worse it was completly dark again, and there was now glass from a coffeecup my arm took out that is now smashed on the floor which i couldn't see because i had tripped the power again,and i couldn't feel my right arm,
anyway it's now sorted, i'm nursing a sore right hand my son is now asleep again, and my wife is grumbly because she won't get coffee what a lousey way to end the year... it's been a crap one...
at 3.30 ish this morning i got woken up by my very sweaty 6 year old son letting me know that he had had a nightmare because the nightlight had gone out, i realised after trying to look around that the power was out after quick trip to the meter box (fun - not)
it turned out somthing in the house was causing a fault and tripping the switch,30 mins later after many many trips to the meterbox the trip switch stayed up,
since the wife was awake now with no prospect of going back to sleep i thought i might make coffee, i went to the kettle grabbed the lead to plug it in (it's one of those ones you plug in at the back) and BANG!, i had just discovered the hard way what the cause of the fault was, the local field rats (that had been evicted by the local council when they cleared some land behind our house) had been busy chewing at this cord that i had just grabbed,
to make things worse it was completly dark again, and there was now glass from a coffeecup my arm took out that is now smashed on the floor which i couldn't see because i had tripped the power again,and i couldn't feel my right arm,
anyway it's now sorted, i'm nursing a sore right hand my son is now asleep again, and my wife is grumbly because she won't get coffee what a lousey way to end the year... it's been a crap one...