Power Outage

Unfortunately, the title of my latest thoughts has no depth to it or hidden meaning.  Simply, I find it curious how we as humans react to a power outage.  Last night as I returned home from karate I turned down my giant abyss of a hill that leads to my apartment and noticed that the entire strip mall near by was dark.  "Well that kinda sucks..." I thought because as some of you may or may not know, I'm an avid hockey fan and I was looking forward to watching the Thrashers on TV. Needless to say, I was still able to listen to the broad cast on the radio.  But as I approached my front door, my neighbor who is a tall, black, former army ranger, and now a cop (rumored has it a dirty one), was sitting outside letting his dog go rampant in the grass around.  Oh he also calls me "Boss" (which I find is all sorts of awkward) and never calls me by my actual name.  Anyways, he was distraught.  He expressed his NEED for power (literally like electricity) so he could iron his uniform watch TV or do what ever. 

Having hearing this I thought to myself, what ever will I myself do?  I wasn't panicking really, Banzai (my dog, also the one you see in my user picture) was just wagging his tail not giving a shit that the power was out.  The quiet was rather nice, lit a few candles and ate my chick-fa-la sandwich in the dark.  Literally a candle lit dinner with my pup.  Soon the power came back on, I'd say about 15 min.

Really the point I'm trying to make is the way people are wired.  I am starting to feel that the people who NEED to be stimulated are the ones who freak out.  I NEED my TV man, I NEED my computer, I NEED the internet, I NEED my video games, do you have any idea how many other gamers I'm not killing at the moment!  Granted, my neighbor needing to iron his uniform is important and a priority for his job (or lack there of), I can probably say I don't NEED any of those, granted I enjoy the benefits of them all, quite regularly, but I'm a writer, so sitting there in the dark just made my brain start stimulating itself.  (I'm sure plenty of sexual jokes are coming...)  My plan became, well I'd like to watch the Thrashers, but if the shit hits the fan, I'll just go work on some script stuff, or wait for it...hey there's a blog topic! 

So let me throw this out there.  Think of it as a what if scenario.  What if, it was one of those apocalyptic times where we lost all electricity?  I'd be curious to see if the people who NEED power, are the first ones to go ape shit and do something drastic, looting, robbing, something non-positive.  I might guess that the creative types, or just the "we can stimulate ourselves" would be more creative and think outside the box and form some sort of plan.  It's hard to say really, I could be totally wrong and I'm basing it all off one guy, or also maybe because I've already thought of this type of scenario and have a plan for it already...Just apply zombie outbreak protocol and adapt to what is actually happening....Hmmm I need to learn how to sail...