How the municipality lets me have one cold shower per year

It happened again this morning. No hot water because the geiser (hot water cylinder for the foreigners) was turned off all night, caused in turn by the municipal ripple switch that was turned off all night. Now while this saves a bit of electricity, it seriously irritates the wife, which in turn seriously messes with my early morning wake-up routine (a rather slow routine). A cold shave is also no fun at all.

But at a frequency of once yearly I suppose I can put up with it for the feel-good value of helping our struggling supplier to regulate what is slowly becoming a scarce commodity.