TimfromMA
Minister of Fire
A few years back, a pretty bad ice storm rolled through the area. There were lots of people who lost power for days and even weeks. I was lucky enough to not lose power at all. My elderly mother-in-law was living with us at the time. She watched the news stories and got real paranoid about what would happen if we ever lost power so she insisted we get a generator. I flat out refused to spend that kind of money on something that would would spend 99.999999% of it's time collecting dust in the garage. She then told me to go pick out a generator and that she would pay for it. Talk about a deal you can't refuse? A couple years later, she moved out of our house into elderly housing leaving the generator behind. Got to love a free generator.