Sometimes you just need to buy lamp parts.
It’s dark in your house. The sun was destroyed by an army of robot government bureaucrats because you didn’t have the right approval to go outside and use the sun. Next time you want to use the sun, fill out the proper paperwork and give it to your administrative assistant, they said.
You just need a valve for your kerosene lamp. But you get to the store, and it looks like this.
I guess the deserted building filled out its sun usage paperwork properly. But its business license was revoked due to efficiency.
This is an outhouse, next to what was presumably a commercial shopping center that was “thriving” (according to some accounts) during the middle of the last century.
Also? Notice the birdhouse. Even birds need a private place to poop.
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