My half of the experience, Yipee!!

Hello, This is Aaron, Jen's no good oaf of a boyfriend/ Fiance.
I have the other half of Jen's LA hostel experience that I encountered while she took her shower.

So... we walked into the hostel and Jen went upstairs. One should note that the whole place lacks air conditioning, which in LA is not horrible most of the time but that whole week was so unbelivably hot. So a whole building+ no AC= hot as a mother F*%$@#$! Anyways. So I sit down in the lobby and park myself in front of the only cool thing in the place a AC window unit, which only cools the 2 feet in front of it. So I am sitting there watching the front desk and the verious strange European teenagers walk in and out when, BAM! all the lights and electricity go out. My instant reaction is to speak up but softly. "Do you know where the breaker is?" Front desk girl in her 20's maybe some college education (probably Liberal arts) doesn't hear me and starts freaking out, big time. "This never happens, oh my god this...!" Me (calm): "Do you know where the breaker is?" I was thinking that the place probably simply blew the main breaker. Little to my knowledge the whole city block was out due I think to a roaming blackout. So the front desk lady is freaking out, trying to type on computers that are off with black screens, picking up the phone, "Nope it's out, oh my god!," and then when the people who live there start to appear and ask what's going on she's like, "I don't know, I don't know what to do... Wait let me get the manager!"
Meanwhile, a giant German guy who appears to be too old for the hostel, maybe mid to late 30's, comes out and says, "I know what's going on, I know what's going on, you people use to much electricity... You run your AC's all the time non-stop. I know what's going on I've seen this before!" He is one loud dude and says it all in a way like he is condemning America. He then storms out to see if the rest of the street's power is out.
The front desk girl shows back up with who I assume is the manager. He is calm, she still is not.
Him: "Ok ok, so let find the breaker"
Her: "what the... what?"
Him: "Well, wait let's get some flash lights."
They find some flashlights, but--big shock, no batteries... (yeah the hostel is prepared for the worst).
"Ok ok, I know there are batteries around here we just have to look."
Her: "No wait this light's battery cover is screwed on!" (she freaks out more).
He is starting to get worked up because of her. "Ok let me get a screwdriver"
He gets one but it is huge, you know it's not going to fit a tiny battery cover screw. "
"Nope that doesn't work!"
Both freaking out now. He disappears and then returns with a ... "I got a butter knife! I think we can open it this way." That works but to our surprise that light doesn't take any of the batteries they have on hand.
SO... one of the tenants is like, "Do you want us to go buy some flashlights?" Front desk girl: "Oh my god yes.. please well reimburse you ... just buy as many as you can... go now!" She delivers the line like they're on a mission to save the world. Please take note that, only the electricity has gone out. Nothing big has happened! Anyways I offer the flashlight built into my phone for them to use and he's like, "oh wow thanks dude!" And uses it to find the tinest maglight pen light... hands me back my phone.
Jen comes down stairs and we meet, I say "You ok up there?"
Jen: "Yes"
I Ravish her with a kiss, throw my arm around her waist and bust out of that joint.. leaving behind the whole freakshow. The two people in charge (I use that loosely) were still super freaking out as though the world was ending--the only calm ones I saw the whole time were the two girls who asked about going to get some flashlights. Oh and the German guy came back in only to say, "YEP, I was right, you use too much damn electricity, the whole block is out! AHHH"

The end. That's the story... Hope you liked it, it's kinda long but I hope it's a little coherent. Anyways.

Adios,
Bruiser

editor's note: Only coherent due to addition of punctuation...JT