When the Power Goes Out and your Phone is Dead

When I came home from Provo last Tuesday, I was buffeted along the highway by winds so strong that at the north end of town, the cemetery trees hurled branches at my car. I ducked from the force of the blows, wondering if I'd have a dented body. (The car's, not mine.) Then when I reached the safety of home, I found my sons on the sidewalk with three fans spinning crazily in the air.

I wasn't sure what they were doing until I got closer and saw the power strip and the charge tester.

Then I STILL didn't really know what was going on until Brian told me the power was out and he was trying to charge his mobile phone.

Oh! Wind power to the rescue!

It was a good idea in theory, but there was something about AC/DC current that kept it from working in actuality.

What would you do if your phone was nearly out of power and the electricity was off?

Mirror, Mirror, See it Clearer

It all started with Bob writing me a message on the mirror with a bar of soap stating not to buy the kind of toilet paper that was on the roll again.

I soap-replied that it was a gift. (Yes, really. If you get a gift of toilet paper, then you know you are really loved.)

  

Perhaps the battery on his phone died, or perhaps he wanted to study soap-writing, but Brian used a different mirror panel to soap-write, "I want to write something on here, too!"

  

Then my other son, Michael, soaped in a final, profound question, "Who says phones are making us anti-social?"

Good point.

As long as we have soap, we have connection.

 What's your favorite kind of soap?