I can never catch a break. I cannot have one day stress-free. Tonight took the cake, though. I throw the white towel in the ring now. I need a vacation—a long vacation!
This is exactly how I feel now. Tired and irritated.
I started to write this post last night but never finished it due to what happened.
At 3pm I was going to start with dinner, and it happened. When I turned on the oven, all electricity went off in the apartment. Strange, I thought, and turned the oven off again. I don’t know why I did that, though. I went to the power box and checked. I remembered what the landlord told me to do when it happens, so I did. Wooh! The power came back!
So I turned the oven on again, and lightning came from the stove, and the power went off again. Like, excuse me, LIGHTNING FLASHED FROM THE STOVE! That has never happened before! So automatically I screamed out loud! Panicked!
Called the landlord instantly and explained what happened. He told me what to do (the same thing as I did before). but it all ended up that he called a dude.
He came, checked, and went to the basement and changed power plugs. 2 were dead. He changed them, came back to us and explained. Everything worked – the lamps, powers etc. So we thanked him and he left.
It all worked until… yes you guessed it! The oven killed it again!
I turned on the oven again (at this time the clock was 3.50pm) to start with dinner and POFF ! The electricity died again.
So I called again, and he came back. This time we unplugged stuff (stove, internet, etc.). He went down back to the basement, this time an other 2 plugs has died. He fixed it and everything was fine.
UNTIL… it happened for a third time, but this time we were sitting at the table, eating pizza (due to us not being able to use the stove, we had to buy pizza), and it said “poff” again. Surprised as we all were, I made the third call. One more plug had died. At this time, we all were irritated.I asked if we should turn the switches off in the power box for the stove and unplug the stove from the wall, which we did. Now we prayed for this to stop!
So far, the electricity is working. Nothing else has happened, so the conclusion is that the wall outlet is fcked (yes I know i wrote the F word) so we have no change to make lunch or dinner for the weekend. So now we have to go use the neighbors.
So now you know why I was so mad and irritated. The landlord will call for a real electrician on Monday, and they don’t have a spare stove for us. So we must use the neighbor’s stove for probably a week. God. So now I’m planning to do some big cooking to keep the fridge or freezer for us to heat up. Luckily, the microwave works, but oh god.
We never put the plug back into the wall for the stove .
I hope that this situation will pass and let us keep having the electricity.
So long story short, the electricity died 3 times. 5 plugs had died. We have no stove, so we can’t cook breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Probably for a week. We have to use the neighbors’ stove/oven.
