The Things that Can be Taken as Granted and the Things that Cannot
All the sudden, everything on the floor came to a stop. All the usual sounds of pop music blasting, packing materials screeching, and scanners beeping were suddenly cut out from the heavy dusty air of the overworked, sweat-filled warehouse. The chain was broken and the process was paralyzed. It was a blackout, a complete outage of power within the whole compound. But it was more than just a realization of over-dependence on electricity that came about, it was fear and stress that the orders that need to be sent out, with all the items already in the building, had to be halted.