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A Day with No Cell Phones

Today I woke up at 12 in the evening, the house was quite. No coffee was brewing, no cartoons playing, and no commotion in the bathrooms. Normally I wake up around 8am with my alarm clock, but I guess it didn’t go off today. As I walked towards the restroom I noticed something weird. My parents bed wasn’t made, which is very rare because my parents are complete neat freaks. At first I panicked, I’m already late starting my day and now it seems as if my parents were abducted by aliens in their bedroom. I ran back to my room and reached for my cell phone, as I dialed the number hastily I realized that my phone wasn’t even on. I ran to the computer to find a black screen instead of my baby sister’s rosy face as the background. Frantically I ran towards my stairs to find every light in the house out, even though I was paranoid hunger swept through my body, and to the refrigerator I went to find a dark fridge with spoiled food. My parents always told me if something unsuspecting happens go about it like nothing’s wrong, so that’s what I did. I fixed myself some cereal with the hot milk that was left and sat down in front of the television to watch some TV. Reclining back in my father’s favorite chair, I waited for the TV to come on after pressing the power button. However the TV remained still like a statue. Another disappoint for my already ruined day. No cell phone, no television, no computer, so I did what every child does with nothing to do inside the house, I went outside to play. I played for hours, to the point that I forgot that my house was basically a no man’s land. I asked my friends to use their phones, but as I dialed I quickly hung up because I remember seeing my parent’s phones still on the charger as I glanced into their rooms.  The street lights began to flicker on around 7pm, and my entire group of friend’s slowly dispersed into their lively houses. One by one everywhere left until it was just me standing under the street lights by myself. As I walked towards my house I cringed thinking about not being able to make a phone call or no TV. All of a sudden both my parents cars pulled into the drive way. I ran up to them trying to explain how horrific my day was without my phone, and laptop. However, my words were ignored once we all walked inside the house, because everything was working again. I ran to my room frustrated, and angrily grabbed my phone to find every text message in my phone as if it was on the whole time. Confused I lay back in my bed, this day march 21, 2010 was the day I went without any electrical devices in my home.