I never know what to expect when I come home, so it shouldn't surprise me that falling asleep involves random acts of weirdness from my husband. Like the other night, when I had already gotten into bed...
James: "He approaches the bed, ready for another night of
sleep after a long day’s work. Untucking the covers, he—"
Me: "What the hell are you doing?"
James: "He pulled back the sheets and watched her turn over. He wondered if she knew how to respond."
Me: "Are you...narrating your actions?"
James: "She was surprisingly quick-witted, and he knew he had found a keeper."
Me: "You are narrating...your...own...actions."
James: "Suddenly, she began to repeat herself, and he worried that she had someone injured herself into speaking like a broken, skipping record."
Me [rolling over]: "I should get paid to put up with you."
James: "He looked over at her still form, waiting for her to sleep. Oh no, he had forgotten to
pee."
[I ignore him]
[James gets out of bed and trundles over to the bathroom.
Muffled sounds, like someone talking into a pipe, intermix with the splash of
the toilet. He comes back into the room.]
James:"…..and then it hit him, he really wanted a bowl of
cereal."
Me [mumbling into the sheets]: "You are not getting cereal."
James: "James glared at the evil lady. She won, for now, but
she wouldn’t be able to keep him from cereal forever. He tucked himself into
bed—"
Me: "Narrate this!" [I hit him with a pillow]
[A slight pause before --]
James: "The sting of the pillow was nothing when compared to
the sting of no cereal."
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