Quirky ideas that’ll help you see the bright side when Eskom turns the lights out.
1. Navigate through every dark room in your house and list the largest objects in them to see how well you really know your place.
2. Build a fort with cushions, call it Nkandla, then refuse to talk about it.
3. Revive the lost art of the prank call.
4. Stand by a window, look out over the dark city or your garden, and think about your life until you can’t take it anymore, then pour yourself a large Scotch.
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5. Pretend you’re living in the 1850s and read Charles Dickens by candlelight. Preferable titles: Hard Times and Bleak House.
6. If you’ve got OCD, now’s the chance to indulge in your flicking-the-lights-on-and-off compulsion without blowing a light bulb.
7. As the load-shedding period is drawing to a close, try and predict the exact moment the lights will come back on by saying, “Now!,” and then “No, now!”. You’ll need to play this game with at least one other person otherwise it’s a bit weird.
8. Eat beans from a can.
9. Host a ‘drawing in the dark’ competition for your friends.
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10. Play hide ‘n seek with your cat/dog.
11. Get together with friends and sing for each other. You feel less self-conscious in the dark. Hello darkness my old friend etc…
12. Potter around your house completely nude – who’s watching?
13. Dance in the dark. Like Springsteen.
14. See how many candles you can blow out with one breath.
15. Hold a torch light under your chin and tell ghost stories.
16. Concoct a meal with all the stuff that’s about to go vrot in your freezer.
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17. Play pin the tail on the donkey, or invent a game called Dangerous Darts.
18. Have sex. Obviously. With another person or yourself. (It’ll use up at least two minutes.)
19. Create words from randomly selected Scrabble tiles and see if any of them make sense when the lights come back on.
20. Laugh. Laugh some more. Then drink the rest of your Scotch straight out the bottle.
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