State of the Apartment
In "Une Hirondelle a fait le Printemps" (one of the movies I saw on the plane) there's a scene where the power goes off in the farm house. It looks pretty miserable because there's a foot of snow outside and driving wind. It got me thinking about the sorry state we are currently living in though: A car that barely works, no freezer, no bathroom door, electrical wiring which sometimes makes fizzy noises, light switches which warm up, a bedroom shutter which we can't raise, a bed which periodically collapses with us in it, no useable heating and no AC. Anything after this is going to seem like pure luxury.
