I moved to a new place and my girlfriend never transferred the power, so now we will have no power the whole weekend because the power company wont switch it until Monday.
I already checked all over the perimeter of the apartment for an outlet or anything that wasnt on our meter. I found out my apartments porch light still works. The switch is inside our apartment.
I don't know anything about electronics, but I'd rather die than not have power for three whole days.
I have three options:
1. Replace the switch with an outlet / outlet switch combo. I don't think i can turn the fuse off for the switch though so I probably can't do this.
2. Replace the light on the porch with an outlet. Once again, I don't think I have access to the fuse. But is it enough to turn the switch off?
3. Forego electricity for a few days to avoid electrocution and criminal wrong doing
I'm a very high testosterone male so I absolutely can't do number 3. Pic related its me when I got this bright idea.
pic related can be found at wallmart and other crappy stores... keep your electronics charged... if you overload the circuit and pop the breaker you probably won't be able to get to whatever panel it's in to reset it...
>>1040734
Thanks was looking at one of these, but my laptop charger needs the extra prong and none of those things are available in my area. (walmart, lowes, home depot, nothing has them believe it or not)
>>1040735
you can rip the ground prong out of the laptop cord.. or use an adapter... and you need to look at like a true value.. or smaller hardware store out in the sticks... or a surplus junk store..
>>1040727
For fucks sake. You cant leave your house for TWO DAYS?! Go sit in mcd or starbucks anywhere that has free WiFi. Hell some bars! And nobody here believes you have a girlfriend... Because if you did. You wouldn't care about all the porn on ur laptop.
>>1040739
hmmmmm okay I'll look into it, thank
>>1040727
You could also explain the situation to your neighbours and ask them if it's ok to route a powercord to your house for the weekend.
Give them a few dollars for it after it's done. Voila, you've become friendly with the new neighbours.
You could conceivably find where the switch/light draws power from and attempt to siphon it, but I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND AGAINST it seeing as how you're an amateur and you can't even fucking cut the power and would be working with live wires.
If you decide to continue regardless, be sure to go to the restroom first so that the contents of your bowels don't end up in your pants when you inevitably electrocute yourself to death.
>>1041020
This. Don't fuck with wiring if you're not skilled. You might end up miswiring and set shit on fire without you noticing. You might electrocute yourself.
You might get in trouble with the people who are really wired up on that light. you might blow their fuses and they'd track the problem to you. Not very good neighbourly wise.
>>1040727
Seriously, that thing in >>1040734
and pic related will get you thru the weekend. But fuck dude, go outside or something
>>1041059
How can they go outside with an uncharged phone, how will they see the Pokemon?
>>1040727
Just don't do stuff at your house for a weekend. Are you a shut in or something?
>buy some candles
>spend candlelite weekend playing christen the house with gf
>>1040727
You could dig up the cable.
Carefully cut it using non-iron tools (and for the love of god wear gloves). pry out the wires.
Connect them to a powerbox.
Wait till the power is up again.
Fix the cable.
Since you are not skilled and this is a rather nigger rigging method I suggest you just wait it out for 3 days.
Leave your house.
It is possible to make a short term fridge in the ground in your garden but keep as little perishable food as possible.
Or drive to your local hardware store and see if they have a diesel generator.
Some you can rent them.
I see an opportunity for free power. Replace that switch and plug literally everything you own in to that circuit for a $0/mo power bill.
No way this could possibly go wrong.
>>1041400
This
>>1040740
Summerfag
Punch a police officer, problem solved