Storytime!!

This is the story of a girl we'll call... um... Aurora. yes, beautiful name.

Well, one day Aurora went home from work and was verrry tired. So she took a shower (because she likes to be clean) and then she thought she'd lay down and take a wee nap. So Aurora slept nicely, for TWO HOURS. She woke up around 6:00pm, (thats central time for our international readers) and went out to the kitchen to make some dinner.


"Hmmm, what shall I have?" Aurora thought to herself. "Yummy, pancakes sound good,but do I have any syrup? Yes! I do!"
So Aurora got out the making of pancakes, reached over to turn the stove on when suddenly - Oh no! The power has gone out!


Well, Aurora is quite hungry and so she thinks, "hmmm. I'll go to Subway and grab a sandwich. " Aurora walks down to the garage, when she realizes, there's no power and there is no release on the garage door so she can't get her car out of the garage.

"Well, I could walk, but its pouring rain and hailing outside, I'd better not, I could die. and then who would Jordan* talk to at work tomorrow?" So Aurora trudged back upstairs to her apartment and went to call her momma** to see if her momma had power.


After acsertaining (cool word, tough to spell) that yes her momma did indeed have power, and if Aurora still hadn't eaten by 9:00 pm C ST, her momma would bring her some food. (for those of you not so good with the math, thats 3 hours later), Aurora called her friend Jane*** to see how she was doing.

Well Jane was entirely unhelpful and unsupportive so Aurora called Maggie****, because we all know Maggie is good for a listen now and then. Well Maggie insisted that she come pick Aurora up and they go get food, (Maggie felt a sense of obligation since a few weeks ago Aurora had driven many many miles to pick up Maggie, bring her to house, get her spare car keys and bring her back to her car because Maggie had locked her keys in her car). So Maggie picked Aurora up and they went to Perkins where Maggie had Mac and Cheese and Aurora had pancakes. Now, this would be a lovely place to have a happy ending, but it is not to be.


Aurora and Maggie decided to head back to Aurora's apartment and just hang out. So after discovering the both battery packs for Aurora's lantern were dead, they lit some candles and settled down to play cards. They hooked up a battery-operated radio and listened to the weather. They never did play cards, just sat there watching the storm and listening to the weather.


After a couple hours the storm dissipated and it was just gently raining. Alas, Aurora's power was still not on. According to a neighbor Aurora had conversed with , the power was to stay out until 11:30 pm.

So Maggie and Aurora lounged on the couch and talked about evrything. And really, everything from college to cars to the size of certain persons um, (insert euphemism here).

Around 10:00 pm Aurra's power came back on. The first thing Maggie and Aurora did was clap. Then they got up and turned all the lights out, after all, candlelight is much more flattering. One of the candles went out so Aurora re-lit it using a scrap of paper. She innocently threw the paper into the bottom of the candle holder. After awhile Aurora realized the candle was burning a lot and tried to move it.

OH NO! The frickin candle had burned a nice round mark on her precious coffee table. Aurora has furniture she is much attached to. So Aurora tried to blow out the candle. It wouldn't go out! (all the other ones did) So Aurora, not know the effect hthis would have tried to douse the candle with water.

FLAMES!!!! TOWERING INFERNO OF FLAMES!!!!

Maggie, being quite useless in emergency situations, ran for the door.

Aurora scooped the candle that had burned down again (it was a temporary flame up) onto a pad of paper and threw it in the kitchen sink where it quickly burned itself out.

After convincing Maggie all was safe, Aurora and Maggie returned to the couch where they sat in awed silence at the adventure they had had.

*names changed to protect the innocent
**I don't call her momma, and you shouldn't either, its not her name
***name changed to protect the unsupportive brat
****name changed so if you find yourself in an emergency with this girl you won't know she's about to ditch you.