24/7 electricity happened

in Rant, Complain, Talk5 months ago

Greetings!


The whole of my Sunday(today) happened like a dream and...

Sigh!


I was woken up early morning around 4:00 am by a high intensity light from the bulb in my house. Electricity was restored, which is unusual on a morning because we don't usually expect power here. When I thought the light would soon go off, it stayed on past 30 minutes. That's when I decided to plug in my sound system to play music while I did some basic tasks that needed light.

I got ready for church and left while there was still power. Normally, I would have left my power banks plugged in, but since I had power yesterday via the generator and they were all fully charged, I just closed my door and left, also thinking the power wouldn't last until I returned from church.

My guess was totally wrong. When we closed from church, I saw that there was still electricity. In the car on the way back, one of the ladies said it seemed like the staff in charge of turning off the power had fallen asleep, and that's why the power was still on. We all laughed. Maybe that was true because having power for that long is something we haven't seen for a long time.

I got home and wished I had food prepared already. I wished I was married so she could have prepared food for me because I wanted to go straight to ironing clothes to utilize the electricity. But I was very hungry, and there was no food at home. I quickly pulled off my shirt and did a very 'sharp sharp' preparation of food, praying that the power wouldn't go off before I was done. Although I was praying, I didn't have much faith because you can't actually pray for electricity in my area. In fact, when you pray, darkness seems to come even more. Lol 😂

Fortunately, there was still power when I finished eating, and I didn't waste time. I went straight to ironing clothes. I was rushing to iron as much as possible before the power went off unexpectedly, but the more I ironed, the longer the power stayed on.

"Wow! What's happening? Is the world ending?"
Many thoughts flashed through my mind because it was unbelievable.

That's how I ironed clothes until 7:47 pm before the power was finally cut. This time, I didn't curse the electricity management as we usually do whenever the power goes off; instead, I appreciated them. Just when I was about to fold up and rest, the power was restored again. Oh my God! I picked up my electric iron and began to iron clothes again.

I did that until 9:11 pm when the power was finally cut off for good. By then, I was tired too. So, I took the opportunity to shower, ate, and sat in my chair to write this rant.

With the way my power banks are fully charged, I'm not going to run helter-skelter for battery run down till Coming Wednesday.

Thanks for reading.

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So u are living in the village, oga come to the city and enjoy stable electricity 😂
#dreemerforlife

Create a space for me in your house
I want to come down

Hahaha 😀 this usually happens to me too when we would be surprised when electricity comes when we do not expect it. There was a time when I was in Ondo, the light came and didn't go for good 3 days and every student in that area were surprised thinking something bad had happened to the one in charge of switching on and off the light 🤣🤣
It was later we heard that a dignitary visited Ondo State for 3 days and the light was left on to welcome him. Light that we would beg to bring for us and when they do, it doesn't last 2 hours but here was one that lasted for 3 days without even flashing off.

Light that we would beg to bring for us and when they do, it doesn't last 2 hours but here was one that lasted for 3 days without even flashing off.

You're seeing the ojoro in this country?
This means that, all those while that they used to give light for just 2hrs a week, the capacity to sustain 24/7 power supply is there but no way, they don't like it when people have light in excess😂

Hahaha. They don't oo

It’s pretty sad that something so basic is something so unreliable. It’s 2024 and there are lots of places that don’t have reliable electricity. What a joke!

It's laughable!
The next solution people are switching into is installing solar system at homes. But it's costly too

Hahahaha, congratulations are in order o. You finally had electric power supply for more than 12 hours. That's very good news o

Only God knows when Nigeria will come out of darkness. More than 80% of Nigerians lack regular electricity. In my area, we enjoyed an average of 10 hours of electricity per day. It's ridiculous. We are giant of Africa in population and corruption and nothing else to show for it.

#dreemerforlife

Enjoy the free light, na your bill go suffer am, hehehe

#dreemerforlife

Hahahah!
Here sef, we are no longer paying bills because we don't see electricity. Unless they want to start now😂