The Importance
"Gerry can you get me a cuppa please?"Sandra asked as she got bored of staring at the report she was supposed to be typing and Gerry had walked in.
"We're of out gov' to speak to Holly Gear. After work we'll cuddle up on the sofa and watch that programme with Rebecca Front in that you're recording."
"Sounds good." Sandra said sighing at the thought of having to get through the rest of the working day.
She stood up after they'd all left in order to make the coffee that Gerry didn't have time to. She flicked the kettle on and rooted around trying to find her phone charger that she kept in the office when the kettle stopped. The kettle was usually slow and was as prehistoric as the men in the unit, she went over and poured her water only to find it stone cold and it refused to turn back on. She walked sadly back to her office as even a cup of coffee couldn't get her through her exhaustion and keep her going through the working day, it was inevitable that the kettle would stop but it didn't have to be today. She sat back down at her computer and wiggled the mouse, she was now determined to get the report done. The computer wouldn't turn on and she hadn't saved her half written report.
"Hello, I'm having some trouble with the computers down in UCOS." Sandra said to the receptionist after she'd walked up 4 flights of stairs.
"Well you would be, we're experiencing a power cut." The receptionist told her bluntly, obviously annoyed by the amount of people saying the same thing that he'd had to deal with.
She walked back down to her office which had no power to collect her bag and phone, by know which had also died. She wasn't going to sit in the office all day while nothing was working so she decided to go home, have a nice bath and maybe go for a nap.
She walked through her front door as it'd reached nearly two hours since the power had gone off. Clearly everyone had had the same idea as she had and were heading off home, leaving Sandra stuck in traffic but she was in now.
She sat down in front of the couch with some chocolate eclairs which she'd got out of fridge and tried to turn the tv on, only then remembering that it wasn't going to turn on. Electricity was something she took for granted and she wasn't used to being without it. All this meaning her evening was too ruined because eventually when the power did come back on, her half recorded programme would be lost.
Her eclair posed the same problem as she went to eat it, only to find the cream had gone off, not only that but nearly all the food in her freezer had defrosted, meaning it was ruined.
This really was not her day and it didn't look like it was going to get any better.