Your Dinner Is Ready

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Bangalore, India 150707 0911 local time

I’ve grown accustomed to the power outages. They average about 4 a day. The first one in the elevator was a little unnerving but after a while you get used to it. In the elevator at work, when the power goes out, the elevator has to recalibrate itself by descending all the way back down to the basement. Not to worry, the descent is so gradual you don’t even realize you are going down. It just takes forever. When the power goes out twice on the same trip, a trip up to the fourth floor can take 10 minutes. Rick and Scott said that it didn’t happen until Nathan and I came, but then again Rick and Scott say a lot of things didn’t happen until Nathan and I came. I’ve gotten to where I will take the stairs down and the elevator up. And I’ll walk up the stairs if it’s only a couple of flights. The spookiest power outage to date was when Nathan and I were downstairs ordering dinner at Thaili. It’s outdoors but it was pitch black that night. As soon as placed the order, the electricity went out. Mind you there is no back up power. It seemed like a rather long outage at the time but it was probably only a couple of minutes. When the power came back on, walla, my order was ready. Freaky!

Another one of those things that Rick and Scott say didn’t happen until Nathan and I got there was the check for the bomb under the car. Not always, but on occasion, when entering the gates for the office complex at work, the security guards will ask the driver to pull over to check for a bomb. They have one of those mirrors on wheels jobbies. At night they tape a flashlight to the handle. The flashlight comes off during the day. It must interfere or something. Anyway, everytime, same thing, straight to the front and center of the car, roll the mirror under and then DONE. As Rick and Scott say, everyone knows where you hide a bomb on a car, under the radiator. Every single time. The same place. Once again folks, you can’t make this stuff up.

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