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Power to the People
The last two months have
been a struggle. Not only worldwide, not only due to the financial crisis,
not only because the bills are becoming higher then our income…it has been a
much more local struggle, like real
local, like MY HOUSE local.
Yep. See, on a
day-to-day level I can cope with the world’s bullshit: with global warming,
with no flights due to volcanic ash, with Greece's pending bankruptcy…
You know what?
No problem. I'm dealing with it. But, when a European Union Country (yes Mr.
Editor all with capitals please, this is no typo) That Receives Billions And
Billions From Other EC Members Just To Get Them Out Of The Big Nasty Hole
They Have Gotten Themselves Into, Cannot Provide Me And My Family With
Electricity 24/7…Then I Get Pissed.
Over the last months the
power cuts have been humongous. Hours and hours at a time. My neighbours
fridge and television set died simultaneously. And you know what? It wasn't
a coincidence!
We found two
guys sitting next to an electricity pole drinking coffee, smoking, laughing,
not really bothered with the fact that our houses had turned into a cross
between a 1980s’ disco and a Christmas tree on heat with all the strange
sounds coming from our appliances and the lights going on/off, on/off,
on/off.
When asked how long it would take to
fix the problems, one of the two told us they
hoped all would be well in a day or
two.
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Meanwhile, the other guy had
poured himself another cup of steamy hot coffee and took a nice long sip.
Without even offering us any.
Mind you, I
hadn't had hot coffee for 36 hours, so yep, pissed again. He probably
thought I was a psycho as I screamed hysterically at him to get his butt
back up the pole and give me my power back. See if I care. I wanted Power.
Power was restored the
next day. The fridge was plugged back in. The moment I opened the door, I
was greeted by frustrated vegetables starting to blabber about how I could
cut away their black parts so they’d
still be edible, the ham was crying quite loudly how he was sure he died
while he made his way to the trash all by himself, and the milk, well, let's
not talk about her too much cause I think she was actually moo-ing again.
Shame they couldn't clean up after themselves, I was left with the stench.
With compliments of the DEH.
About a week
later, we received our electricity bill. It was 50% higher then the
preceding ones. I'm not one to use profanities, but in all honesty at this
point I used a couple. Turns out the DEH is very good at cutting things
except bills. These power outages have cost a lot of people a small fortune.
The DEH should count their blessings
because they
haven't been sued by everyone…yet. If we would all sue, I'm telling you,
Greece would be bankrupt in the wink of an eye, unsaveable, not by the EC,
no, not even by the IMF.
So, dear Greece,
you owe us Big Time. We, the people, have saved you from humiliation…so far.
Just give us our electricity back, power to the people, 24/7.
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