…until you don’t have it.

It was yesterday afternoon at about 3 o’clock. The dreaded “buffering circle” popped up in the center of the TV screen, freezing the picture at the same time. We began to worry when five minutes later, still no TV connection. The upper right corner of our I-Phones showed SOS. Our cell service is from T-Mobile.  T-Mobile 5G Home Internet provides our internet signals. Neither was working.

Four hours later we sort of resigned ourselves to the fact that tonight would be phone and internet free. The few outages we have had were fixed within about 15 minutes or less. This was a much more ominous outage. Our son had been visiting his brother, and he stopped at a McDonalds and was able to get a quick phone hookup on the McD’s Wi-Fi. Indianapolis and Shelbyville were suffering from a massive T-Mobile system outage.

We settled in for an evening of games on our phones. After some play on Royal Match I picked up a John Grisham thriller, “The Guardians”.  It was so quiet in the house. Seemed like no traffic at all in our little subdivision.

Next morning our son went out to see if the T-Mobile store was open. It was not open. Above see the note on the T-Mobile door. About noon we all drove out to hook up to McDonald’s Wi-Fi. We had some business online we had to tend to. That done, back to the quiet home. Finally about 4:33 in the afternoon, lo and behold, with no fanfare, both our phone service and Home Internet silently came back into our lives after a little over 24 hour outage.

It is true: you don’t know how much you will miss something until you don’t have it.