A boil order is where one day a water main breaks in your neighborhood, and the next day you get a little yellow card on your door that says, "Sorry, but you won't have any running water from 10 this morning and 4 this afternoon, and after that you'll need to boil any water you use for drinking or cooking until Friday evening or until we tell you the water is safe again, whichever comes first."
And after that you spend a couple of hours thinking, "Hey! I'm just like Ma in Little House in the Big Woods," until your mind helpfully points out that, while Ma didn't have running water, she also didn't get to go to the supermarket and buy drinkable water in plastic jugs, either.
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Date: 9/4/03 12:50 pm (UTC)And after that you spend a couple of hours thinking, "Hey! I'm just like Ma in Little House in the Big Woods," until your mind helpfully points out that, while Ma didn't have running water, she also didn't get to go to the supermarket and buy drinkable water in plastic jugs, either.