Blackout

I was in the business center updating my blog at 2 am last night when all of a sudden my computer shut down along with the lights and TV- the power had gone out. There was no storm or any other warnıng of an upcoming outage.  Forunately, there happened to be another chap from my floor who was also tinkering online. The business center is 5 floors above our floor. We assumed a back-up generator would kick in or the power would resume in a few minutes. So we began chatting and almost 40 minutes later we are still sitting in the dark. We now realize there is no back-up generator and the sun will not be out for another few hours. However, wıth no electricity the elevator is not functiıoning either so our only option ıs  the stairwell, which turns out to be a set of spiral stairs. The first set was all right but 5 rounds of spiral stairs in the dark became tricky and my fear of falling gradually heightened. Thankfully, the Englıshman was patient and slowed down so I was not left alone ın the stairwell. Of course as soon as we made it to our floor the lights flickered on....so now if I go to the business center after dark I bring a flashlight.