This happened while the board was down. We had extremely cold weather last week with most days waking up to single digit temps. At my part-time job at a DIY place we completely sold out of heaters by Thursday... Electric, kerosene, and propane... everything. Probably sold over 500 heaters in three days. But loads of people kept coming in and calling looking for heaters. You couldn’t find heaters anywhere. And a lot of hard luck stories that everyone shared with me. When I went in on Saturday I took an extra heater I had, that heated up to 1,000 sq/ft, with plans to give it away to the person with the most need that day. I wasn’t there 10 minutes when two attractive young women in their mid 20’s came in desperate for a heater because the heat in their apartment wasn’t working correctly and it had been around 50 degrees in there for a couple of days. They had been everywhere on Friday trying to find one and had traveled 20 miles to our location in hopes of finding one on Saturday. We were out, just like everyone else. I said I had one in the car and was going to give it to the hardest luck story I heard today, but I had just gotten in. One of the girls said ‘Are you giving it to the highest bidder?’ I replied ‘No, I’m giving it away for free to the person I find today with the greatest need.’ She came back with ‘How about I flash you so you can see how cold I am?’ and started to unzip here coat. I said ‘OMG... Stop... don’t do that... you win... you can have the heater.’ Her friend commented she couldn’t believe the other girl was willing to do that. Her reply was ‘I’m so cold I’ll do just about anything for a heater.’ I walked out to the car and gave them the heater and said ‘Here you go... crazy wins... stay warm.’ They thanked me profusely and the would-be flasher said ‘there’s a difference between crazy and desperate... and I’m desperate to stay warm!’
(Is the cold starting to get to us or what?)
