My mother used to tell me I was a slider. Street light
interference. She meant it as a joke, we all know street lights are
energy-savers. They go out and come back up periodically to save power. But
sometimes it was funny, like everytime we’d drive under a streetlight it would
go out or come back on suddenly. And we’d laugh. My mom said that’s always
happened to her. She said she never had an electronic device that she didn’t
have to return as defective. They’d just stop working around her, she said.
They’d fritz out.
She couldn’t use anything with batteries. They would drain
in a matter of hours, at best. She couldn’t talk on any kind of cordless or
cellular phone. I’ve always been the same way. Technology just does not
function around me. Things malfunction, in fact. Things crash and die.
