Tonnnhhh.....!!!!! The shrill sound reverberated through the stillness of the night, awakening the tiny creatures that were trying to get a night's sleep. It was metal crashing against metal. Of much greater intensity than the chime of a giant bell of brass.
The time was 4 nights ago, I had just got back home after having dinner to the full. I was planning for tomorrow (see I am a good planner), what time to get up so as to optimize the time required to gulp down the breakfast and make a rush for the bus in the morning. Just in that moment, water scarcity and power scarcity and the problems that I can face if both were to occur together came up. TNEB was being very generous to wake me up early morning for the past 2 days by switching off their power to our area (daylight savings) and forcing me to hit the shower to escape from the soaring heat from the rising sun. And after having suffered from no-water-in-the-tank situation before aggravated by an air pumping motor pump I was doubly careful to fill the tank every night before I venture out in the dreams so that I can get to office in time the next day.
After such a passing thought, decided to switch on the motor. But as always the motor failed to pump the water without providing the external stimulus of 'give it water' for it to 'pump up water'. It was nearing 10 pm, the time to switch on my internet and start browsing and which meant I needed to hurry up.
In my hurry to get over with all the pumping, quickly turned away from the motor to face a tall pole all of steel (maybe) crashing onto my equally (maybe more)
strong skull (forehead). Tonnnhhh.... The sound came first or the pain? I don't rememeber. The first reaction was to touch my intact forehead to see BLOOD if there was any (or was it to check for any cracks on the pole, the hit hit my memory for a few moments). My palm was red, but it wasn't blood, maybe because the sudden impact may have diverted the blood to my palms. I didn't see any stars. But felt the pole vibrate upon impact (was it my head?)
Got a small bump on the forehead. Luckily the steel cylindrical pole didn't suffer any damage nor the house. The vibrating frequency of the pole must have missed the resonant frequency of the whole structure :-)
The time was 4 nights ago, I had just got back home after having dinner to the full. I was planning for tomorrow (see I am a good planner), what time to get up so as to optimize the time required to gulp down the breakfast and make a rush for the bus in the morning. Just in that moment, water scarcity and power scarcity and the problems that I can face if both were to occur together came up. TNEB was being very generous to wake me up early morning for the past 2 days by switching off their power to our area (daylight savings) and forcing me to hit the shower to escape from the soaring heat from the rising sun. And after having suffered from no-water-in-the-tank situation before aggravated by an air pumping motor pump I was doubly careful to fill the tank every night before I venture out in the dreams so that I can get to office in time the next day.
After such a passing thought, decided to switch on the motor. But as always the motor failed to pump the water without providing the external stimulus of 'give it water' for it to 'pump up water'. It was nearing 10 pm, the time to switch on my internet and start browsing and which meant I needed to hurry up.
In my hurry to get over with all the pumping, quickly turned away from the motor to face a tall pole all of steel (maybe) crashing onto my equally (maybe more)
strong skull (forehead). Tonnnhhh.... The sound came first or the pain? I don't rememeber. The first reaction was to touch my intact forehead to see BLOOD if there was any (or was it to check for any cracks on the pole, the hit hit my memory for a few moments). My palm was red, but it wasn't blood, maybe because the sudden impact may have diverted the blood to my palms. I didn't see any stars. But felt the pole vibrate upon impact (was it my head?)Got a small bump on the forehead. Luckily the steel cylindrical pole didn't suffer any damage nor the house. The vibrating frequency of the pole must have missed the resonant frequency of the whole structure :-)
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