Itâs about ten after ten this morning â Iâm sitting here trying to scalp a point or two out of the YM. Itâs not going too bad â I was only down $365.00 on 48 round turns â when my screen goes black.
Oh fudge,! The wife must be playing games again, I thought. Just then, out of the corner of my eye, I see a guy from the power company climbing down the pole out front. This must be my lucky day! So I open the window, and called out: Hey, my electricity just went out. He says: Tell me something I donât know, Mister Einstein. I just shut it off â try paying your bill next time.
At just that moment, the wife appears in my office door. Lightening bolts are shooting from her eyes. She lunges across the room and starts to choke me, while sheâs screaming: Why didnât you pay the bill?
But my little love muffin, I struggled, there are tough choices to make in life. My face was red, I was gasping for air, when she let go and said: Choices? What choices?
It was between paying the electric bill. or my data feed, I pleaded to no avail. Again she started to choke me â this time even harder.. The last thing I remember was the room spinning, and her screaming and screeching.
I awoke, several hours later in a heap on the floor. All three of my new flat screen monitors were shattered, my CPU sat in the trash can next to the desk, my modem was nowhere to be found
But what was I to do? Had I not paid for the data, it would have been turned off. I thought I had made the right choice.
This is an ominous beginning to the New Year.
