Our parents always taught us that it was bad manners to phone anyone’s home after ten o’clock in the evening. Evidently, Con Ed didn’t get the memo. As part of its effort to encourage energy conservation in the wake of yesterday’s power grid failure in Brooklyn, the utility barraged residents of Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Bed Stuy and Clinton with automated phone messages. We got five, but the volume wasn’t the problem. It was the timing. The first call came in to our cell phone at 3:14 in the afternoon. Then at 10:36 at night our home line rang. That was followed by three more calls to our cellphone, two at 11:12 and one at 11:22. Where’s Emily Post when we need her! Anyone else get a late-night call?
Turn Down the Juice Brooklyn [NY Post]