previouslysaltyfandombrat:Me, sitting in my dark room after everything short-circuited: Hm. I...

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previouslysaltyfandombrat:

Me, sitting in my dark room after everything short-circuited: Hm. I can’t be certain, but I don’t think this is how it was a moment ago

oysters-aint-for-me:

one of my favorite human quirks is when the power goes out and you’re w other ppl and inevitably someone says ‘did the power go out?’ like…you’re all sitting there in the dead dark, tv black, wifi gone, lights OUT but still they’re like ‘hm. well I have a theory but it needs to be submitted for peer-review’

oh yah but there was one time i was with my dude in his shitty apartment and the lights went out and we were like Oh No The Power’s Out and we like got out candles and flashlights and shit and like settled in to wait for the power to come back on and then I looked out the window and was like oh the power’s not out on the rest of the block and then i went out into the hall and was like oh the power’s not out in the hall and spoiler alert that was how we found out about the fuse box

so like, it is a hypothesis and you do gotta test it because there are several reasons the lights might have gone out in the room you’re in, and some of them might be things you can do something about. i’m just saying.

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[krait]

Yes, this. "Is the power out?" is a valid question. The case may also be that a lighbulb has blown, or something has tripped the circuit breaker, or someone has unwisely plugged something in or flipped a switch elsewhere in the building and fried a wire, or various other things short of "the power company is to blame here."