A local man's Sunday meal prep was severely delayed after the wooden stairs leading to his basement temporarily dissolved into a bottomless expanse of nothingness. The anomaly is expected to resolve by Tuesday, but currently prevents the family from retrieving a frozen pork shoulder.
Naperville resident David Miller expressed mild frustration Sunday morning after realizing the flight of wooden stairs leading to his finished basement had temporarily re-routed directly into a lightless, infinite expanse of eternal nothingness. Miller, who had intended to retrieve a frozen pork shoulder from his chest freezer, told reporters he first noticed the structural anomaly when he stepped down past the landing and felt a profound, chilling vacuum where his fourth step should be.
These localized tears in the fabric of domestic reality usually patch themselves within a standard billing cycle, though they do cause a significant draft.
While waiting for the basement to coalesce back into a physical location, Miller's wife reportedly installed a plastic pressure-mounted baby gate at the top of the stairwell to prevent their golden retriever from wandering into the howling abyss. The family has also placed a rolled-up bath towel at the base of the kitchen door to stop the relentless, freezing winds of the void from lowering the ambient temperature of the hallway.
At press time, Miller had abandoned his plans for the slow cooker and decided to order a pizza, noting that he would try to access the chest freezer again tomorrow once the boundless eternity of the unknown had finished sublimating back into concrete and drywall.