Owning up

I guess in my old age (I got my first ever Senior Discount today!) I am more secure in my abilities and therefore am less afraid to admit when I did something stupid. Fortunately, as I've gotten older I have gotten smarter and so don't make nearly as many mistakes as I used to. This fits together nicely and so, with the exception of the usual set of mea culpas that are an essential part of a marriage (on the man's side of it anyway) I am perfectly content acknowledging my occasional boneheadedness.

Today I came back home from dropping my daughter off at school and saw that our electric gate had remained open. I know, that sounds all snobby, electric gate and all, but really it's just so we don't have to have a fence around our pool. I guess that doesn't sound much better, but the gate behaves in a somewhat mysterious fashion and glitches on what seems like a monthly basis. When this happens, the only thing to do is to go in the basement and flip the circuit breaker to turn off the power. After a while, if I turn the power back on the gate will operate normally.

So I go to the basement and do this and then come back upstairs for breakfast. After breakfast, I notice that the Internet is out. This is, of course, a total disaster and cannot be tolerated, so I call Comcast and just ream them (politely, of course). We've been having intermittent problems for months and they refuse to change the outside cable and the TV's out too and I'm sick of it and what, you can't come until tomorrow? I'm inconvenienced and fuming, but I have stuff to do that I go out and do, finishing with a stop at a coffee shop so I can get on the internet for a little while.

When I get home I notice that the gate is still open, so I go down to the basement and notice that instead of one circuit breaker being off, there are two circuit breakers off. I flip them both back on and sure enough, the internet and TV are working again. Oops. Fortunately, I don't even need to apologize to anyone. Just cancel the service call and fire up the laptop. Life is good.