STFU
Since discovering the internet way back when I've spent a lot of time on forums and the like. People have been known to whine about loosing power for half an hour, complain about stupid little power bumps that do no more than annoy and inconvenience people. To be completely fair, I used to be one. I used to live in a Big City.
Then I moved to northern Saskatchewan.
Up here, we get power outages fairly frequently each year. It's not so bad when they're scheduled, but that's not often the case. Hell, they'll even 'schedule' an outage and then have it not happen. That happened up here recently. Boo.
Anyways, I woke up this morning to find the power had gone out. It came on again 15 minutes ago. This isn't the first time we've had an outage this year and it sure won't be the last. It'll probably be the longest one and I'm glad for that. I've been without power for 8 hours before. I know there are people out there who have gone without power for much longer than that and my heart goes out to you, especially if you have small kids and a family to feed.
Complaining about 1/2 hour outages that happen maybe once a year if that often or being without your precious phone or internet for a little while...my heart bleeds. Yes, that's sarcasm. City people for the most part have no concept of what its like to be out of touch with the rest of the world. In a city, your phone or internet goes down...well, you can always get in a car, hop a bus, take a cab, walk...whatever to get somewhere. Out here? I'm 4 hours away from anything even remotely relevant. The next town over is 1/2 hour away. There's nothing there. It's a collection of houses. Another half an hour down the road is a town pretty much like the one I'm in now and the next town (an hour away from that) is the same. Go another hour and you still have another small town. After almost 4 hours of driving you get to someplace that actually has real stores. It's the nearest McDonald's, KFC, Subway, bank, etc. And its not even a big town. If I want civilization, well, that's 6 hours away. If I want better civilization, that's 7 or 8 hours depending on the road you take and which city I want to go to.
Loss of power is irritating. Loosing your phone and internet services because some jackass slammed his car into a pole and it took SaskTel a week to get their lazy behinds up here to fix it? Devastating. My family was absolutely frantic. They had no way of contacting me. I was just damned lucky that my husband had a week long conference in Prince Albert that went for part of the outage time and he was able to contact people back home to let them know we were alright.
So yeah. TL;DR: stop complaining about minor outages when there are people out there that put up with way worse than you do on a regular basis.
Then I moved to northern Saskatchewan.
Up here, we get power outages fairly frequently each year. It's not so bad when they're scheduled, but that's not often the case. Hell, they'll even 'schedule' an outage and then have it not happen. That happened up here recently. Boo.
Anyways, I woke up this morning to find the power had gone out. It came on again 15 minutes ago. This isn't the first time we've had an outage this year and it sure won't be the last. It'll probably be the longest one and I'm glad for that. I've been without power for 8 hours before. I know there are people out there who have gone without power for much longer than that and my heart goes out to you, especially if you have small kids and a family to feed.
Complaining about 1/2 hour outages that happen maybe once a year if that often or being without your precious phone or internet for a little while...my heart bleeds. Yes, that's sarcasm. City people for the most part have no concept of what its like to be out of touch with the rest of the world. In a city, your phone or internet goes down...well, you can always get in a car, hop a bus, take a cab, walk...whatever to get somewhere. Out here? I'm 4 hours away from anything even remotely relevant. The next town over is 1/2 hour away. There's nothing there. It's a collection of houses. Another half an hour down the road is a town pretty much like the one I'm in now and the next town (an hour away from that) is the same. Go another hour and you still have another small town. After almost 4 hours of driving you get to someplace that actually has real stores. It's the nearest McDonald's, KFC, Subway, bank, etc. And its not even a big town. If I want civilization, well, that's 6 hours away. If I want better civilization, that's 7 or 8 hours depending on the road you take and which city I want to go to.
Loss of power is irritating. Loosing your phone and internet services because some jackass slammed his car into a pole and it took SaskTel a week to get their lazy behinds up here to fix it? Devastating. My family was absolutely frantic. They had no way of contacting me. I was just damned lucky that my husband had a week long conference in Prince Albert that went for part of the outage time and he was able to contact people back home to let them know we were alright.
So yeah. TL;DR: stop complaining about minor outages when there are people out there that put up with way worse than you do on a regular basis.