Of power failure and polish

Did you miss me? Or more like, did you miss my long, rambling pointless posts? :P

Anyway, this morning I woke up at about 6-plus in the morning to use the bathroom. It was still dark outside...and as I reached out for my alarm clock on the bedside table (yeah, I like to check the time when I wake up sometime during the night), everything went pitch-black.

Okay, maybe not pitch-black...but darker. I had a little shock...I mean, imagine waking up, still feeling groggy from sleep, seeing things around you, and suddenly...bam! You lose your sight. Pretty scary, if you ask me.

So...maybe you've guessed, it was a power failure. The lights outside had flicked off, which was why it was suddenly darker. A moment later the generator kicked in and the lights turned on again. (and a few minutes later we had our power back...my fan started spinning again :P )

And another (totally unrelated) thing... I washed my car today...and halfway through another guy came to wash his. He had a whole lot of "equipment"...for one, a really long hose, that was wound up on a wheel thing (you know, so that you can just pull out the length you need and you won't have the extra length of the hose in coils all over the place), and also a basket just slightly smaller than those you find in supermarkets...filled (practically full!) with spray bottles. (and maybe some other stuff that I didn't notice)

After I was done, I went over to his end of the hose to wash my hands...and he asked me whether a whitish patch on my car was due to water dripping in the car park (that happens in my car park, unfortunately :( ) He said that it could come off with polish...and he said I could use his.

Nice, right? But, uh....I ran away! lol

Okay, not exactly...I just said no thanks and left. Why? Because, one, I'm too lazy to do any polishing (anything other than wiping the dust and dirt off my car, actually :P ). And two...because I have no idea how to polish a car. :P

So, thank you for your kindness, mister...but I think I'll let the whitish patch take care of itself in the long run...