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I went shopping this morning for a phone. This phone was actually on sale from Canadian Tire so I wanted to get to the store early before they sold out. I was also looking at some cheap hockey pants and to fill up on gas for my bike, and everything seemed to fit with the nice early morning weather we had.
It took a while to find the phone. It was not stocked with the rest of the phones, but was out on display and for some reason I passed by and never noticed it. It was only when I came back with an employee that I saw over a dozen of them on the top shelf, right at eye level.
I do not feel too bad about that since another two customers also walked by the display without seeing it.
The pants were a bust however, since they did not have any in my size.
I forgot to fill up on gas until I was passing the gas station. I realized my folly and turned off on a side street to come back. As I waited at the light, I realized that I was not positioned on top of the sensor pad which could have been an issue had a van not followed up behind me. I was patting myself on the back for my luck when I saw the traffic lights go of.
I blinked and thought that the light had burned out, but when I looked at the other set of lights, I realized that the whole intersection was out of power. Well, this allowed me to treat the intersection as a four-way stop so I inched in, waited for traffic to stop and headed to the gas station.
I pulled in, wondering why the television screens and displays were off, but the LCD displays were still on. I figured that I could still pump up when the employee opened the door and told me that the power was out.
Gah! The whole block was out of power?!?
The amount of time I wasted making my U-turn was more than enough to fill up my tiny tank! Mind you, I wonder what would have happened if the power went out while I was in mid pump? Would I have been charged? Could I pump and dash?
Well, those thoughts did not help me with my current situation of needing to fill up, so I rode along the street, going through a number of powerless traffic lights, until I reached a major intersection. Now the other lights I went through were no problem since there was no traffic. This one was a little more difficult since there was a fair bit of traffic. A police cruiser was parked at the corner parking lot, but I did not see any cops around, and nobody was directing traffic. I squeezed in my left turn and got out of there quickly.
After filling up my tank at another gas station, I decided to avoid that light altogether and took some residential roads back to the condo.
