It all started when the internet stopped working
Sometime last week, my internet stopped working in the middle of the night. Apparently the phone was dead. You know why? Because someone, in a stroke of genius, decided that it would be a rather neat idea to walk off with MTNL’s telephone cables. Yes, seriously, telephone cables which – of all things – I have no idea why anyone would bother to steal. Maybe it was to prove that telephones cannot in fact work without them. We knew that already, thank you very much.
Shortly after that, my cellphone stopped working. But it didn’t just stop working, you see. First its balance went into the negative (this was probably because I was using it to check my email as a consequence of the aforementioned catastrophe). Then my free SMSes finished. When I finally got it recharged and realized that the GPRS wasn’t working, I tried to restart it. I got as far as switching it off, but that’s when it refused to switch on again.
I mean, what the heck? It was working perfectly, and I’ve never done anything to it (well, barring cracking its screen by letting my guitar fall on it) and now it’s reduced to the state of a fancy paperweight? Gadgets these days, I tell you.
Meanwhile, my internet started working at the rather strange cost of my other landline. This was promptly followed by my drawing room AC and computer room AC loudly proclaiming that it was indeed a little too hot. They protested by conking off (for all intents and purposes) in rapid succession and my bedroom AC tried to join in by making the strangest noises ever, accompanied by very suspicious odours from its stabilizer.
Then my landline started working while I discovered that the old mobile phone I was using in place of my comatose one had a talktime of practically 20 minutes, which basically removed any meaning of the word “mobile” from it.
Oh, and I also found that my house is infested with termites. Enchanting. Especially since they seem to like my room a whole lot. The trouble is, I do too and I’d really rather not have my cupboard door coming off in my hands the next time I open it.
Oh and then (you didn’t think this was over, did you?) – the other night at 4 am, as I was searching for the realms of Sleep, I was suddenly made to (very very hastily) exit my room. My AC, in its attempt to one-up the others, decided it would try to make the stabilizer catch fire. The orange glow under my desk and a freakish number of huge orange sparks was quite a good attempt in my opinion.
And that, is all. Who knows what the future may behold?
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You can do a Lemony Snicket and get a novel deal for a series of unfortunate events.
Haha! dude, my sympathies to you man. :P
Nice post.
I mean the rest is bad enough; and then termites?
Shiat.
best of luck in getting it all sorted out man, whats the progress?
oh man !!! sounds like you guys have been having a bad time at home.... my sympathies are with you...and my house shall too be free to you once u get over with my entrance testt...untill then, hang in there... and congrats on your admission offer !!!
"Maybe it was to prove that telephones cannot in fact work without them." - MAYBE it was cuz that person was too lazy/miserly to BUY his own cables. So he STOLE them from you. :P
Oh is that what happened? You didn't say! Did you switch off and then on the phone again, after getting it recharged? =p Its usually as simple as that, and nobody knows.
OMG at the fire, though. OMG.
@Ankur: Hahaha. I had indeed considered that idea :P
Although, I've only ever seen the movies. Somehow didn't get around to reading the books.
@Sam: Thanks! :P
@Anonymous: I know right? Damn irritating. And thanks for visiting my blog btw! :)
@fawkes: Oohh hey! How're you? And when is your entrance test? I remember Kriti telling me about it. All the best! :)
And thank you! =)
@Espèra: Arrey, [s]he didn't steal them from me. The cables were stolen from the main lines. I don't think these were the ones you can just steal and begin using for your own landline :P
@The Keeper of the Keys: "I tried to restart it. I got as far as switching it off, but that's when it refused to switch on again." I did try! Now the bloody thing won't switch on! And anyway, I was asking for the phone I'm using right now in place of that one.
Haina? It was rather cool in retrospect though :P
LOL. My MTNL net randomly stops working too. But that's cuz of all those shovel-happy construction workers digging up the telephone cables and replacing them with Metro tracks.
And I totally sympathize about the sparking! I'm afraid to use anything that runs on electricity given the number of times it's happened in my house.
But termites?! Eep! So now do you have to camp out on the pavement while pest control makes your house unfit for habitation?
Oh then, dunno how I overlooked that line. This happened to my mom's phone, too (along with the cracked screen, weird, no?) When we would try to switch it on, it would just show a white screen. In her case the memory card had (still has, coz we never got her a new one and didn't fix the old one) a virus. All that had to be done was to remove the memory card and then switch the phone on. We felt pretty stupid at the service center, yes.
@Nyx: For the past three days, my MTNL has stopped working at 2 pm. On the first day, it came back at 10.30, on the second at 6 and on the third at 4-ish =P
I'm okay with a little sparking. You know, the kind you hear sometimes when you plug in something. I haven't seen this much sparking since quite long.
Haha yeah, maybe we will have to do that once they start exterminating :P
@TKOTK: Okay that is weird. Doesn't your mom have the same phone as mine? :P
Anyway, mine didn't even show a white screen. And afaik, the memory card isn't the problem. I thought the power button was (it's always given me a lot of trouble) but that was pronounced to be fine. :/
@sahil : It was on the 3rd of this month !!! So now im free till the 13th or till the exam results come.... then i'll be facing the gallows.... :(
Oooh. All the best for the result! =)
Arre cable is cable na.
Plus it's a much better explanation than "Maybe it was to prove that telephones cannot in fact work without them." :P
Arrey? That's not how it works! =P
Well it isn't better than probably the real reason - to sell them. :P
ooh, we both have a post starting "when the internet stopped working". Awesome, like anyone needed more proof that we live in the same house.
Which reminds me, I have to do a termite post too ^_^
Also, people, there was no fire. He exaggerates. And he was sleepy. But omg, I saw a gargantuan cockroach last night, like abnormally-genetically-hybridly huge. Couldn't find it again though.
We really need a new home.
Where do you have a post that starts like that?!
And were you in my room? Were you?! If you'd been there you'd have run screaming. I know you, okay? :P
And you're comparing electric fires to harmless cockroaches ... wow :P
Who would buy mutilated, second-hand cable? :P
lolz..... "comparing electric fires to harmless cockraches" !!!!!
"Because someone, in a stroke of genius, decided that it would be a rather neat idea to walk off with MTNL's telephone cables."
I LOLed. Literally.
Haha. Thanks :D
@kriti: That you couldn't find the cockroach again is a good thing, right? Right. Just wanted to check. =p
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