What is Wrong

Mr. Pepper and his wife Sonya as well as their two sons Brandon, who is twelve years old and Anthony who is fourteen years old. The family has two guests, 13 year old twin cousins named Mark and Luke. Mrs. Pepper is getting supper prepared for everyone, her husband is writing a business presentation on his computer, the two cousins are playing computer baseball against each other as Anthony is finishing the third page of his English report as Brandon is working on his science project that needs the power of electricity. All of a sudden, all the power goes out and Anthony screams as he just lost his whole English assignment, Mr. Pepper's business preparation is erased, all the lights go out in the whole house and the two cousins yell at each other- who has won the computer baseball game. Anthony yells at Brandon, what did you do to cause the power to go out!!

Everyone gathers in the living room after each group finds a flashlight. The sun is shining brightly, with no clouds, so lightening is not the reason for the power outage. Anthony says Brandon must have done something wrong with his science project. Their father says "Not likely". The parents talk to each other, was the power bill paid? Sonya says: " Yes, four days ago, here's the payment". Mr. Pepper talks to his neighbors. Everyone's power has gone out. One of the neighbors has an adult son who is a city police officer. The non emergency call to the police department, Mr. Pepper and his neighbor learn there was an automobile accident and during the accident someone knocked over a utility pole and power is out in the entire city. The cousins say aloud:

" Looks like pizza tonight". Anthony and Brandon tell their cousins: " Not likely as landlines don't work when their is no power. Mr. Pepper has an idea, he tells the boys Brandon and Anthony to get paper plates from the pantry as well as plastic utensils. The two boys quickly help their mother get everything back into the refrigerator.

Chef Boyardee is served on the picnic table in the backyard. When supper is eaten and the garbage is thrown out, everyone enjoys a kickball game in the backyard- 3 versus 3. The game is played for an hour. The power has not been restored so Mr. Pepper tells his sons Brandon and Anthony to set up the dome tent in the back yard. The boys also check, there are enough sleeping bags for everyone for the night. The sun is now setting on a September evening, so everyone sits in a campfire circle, however no fire is needed as the evening is hot. Mr. Pepper tells his two sons, with two cousins listening, the two reasons he asks his sons to look over each other's English essays is it helps with editing and each son has proof of having written their assignment, just in case a classmate writes something similar. Anthony states he has learned to save documents on the computer after every page finished. After a couple campfire games played outside in the backyard, a messenger comes to the circle and tells everyone, the power should be restored in about two hours, if not call the power company. Brandon and Anthony do a skit learned in Boy Scouts. Anthony pretends to be sitting at a campfire and Brandon pretends to be running from the forest yelling there is a bear coming. Anthony gets his two shoes on and then after a couple of steps, he stops and ties his shoelaces. Brandon yells:

" What are you doing, there is a bear running this way and you stopped to tie your shoelaces". Anthony replied:

I don't need to worry about out running the bear, I just need to outrun you". Everyone is laughing. Mr. Pepper tells everyone how he got a couple Scouts in his troop in trouble at Summer camp as the skit told to the Scouts called the Raisin Bread skit is considered dirty. Mr. Pepper disagreed as his Scoutmaster taught his troop the skit. In a period of a year, Mr. Pepper asks 100 males about the skit between the ages of eleven to seventy, fifty percent said it was dirty, fifty percent said it was " Not dirty". This led Mr. Pepper to go his oldest aunt, the one female to break the tie. He tells her where the skit came from and it was a lesson about not judging a book by its cover. Here's the skit:

An English King had a cook who passed away. To avoid 400 applicants, the king stated an applicant must bring a sample piece of bread made and cooked. The first person brought white bread. King replies: " I hate white bread, it reminds me of a snowboarding accident, no job". The second applicant states: " I have rye bread". King replies: " I hate rye bread, it reminds me when my older brother was seriously bitten by a snake, no job. Third applicant tells the King: " I have raisin bread". King looks at it, smells it and even tastes it and he tells the third applicant he is the new cook. Twenty four hours later, the new cook tells the king he has rye bread. The king complains: " Being last you know I hate rye bread". Cook replies: " Sorry sir, but my rabbit died last night." The aunt stated that the skit was disgusting, however not dirty so the tie was broken. The cousins Luke and Mark are laughing and telling everyone they haven't had so much fun. They even tell Brandon and Anthony that they will be joining a Scout troop when they return home. During the evening in the backyard, a lunar eclipse occurred. Mark took the picture on his phone and e-mailed it to his cousin Brandon who received an "A" on the assignment. Anthony wrote about the fun with family due to a power outage. The parents showed love and companionship through the ordeal. Everyone was having so much fun, that no one realized the power had returned to the house until they woke up the next morning and heard noise from the house.