Pet Peeves
Want to drive me up a wall? Run some water unnecessarily; I will scale a wall like your friendly neighborhood Spiderman. I can’t stand it. This means: no running water while brushing my teeth, leaky faucets will get strangled with a wrench and the tank to the toilet has 20 seconds to refill or I’m going in there. You think I’m difficult to live with? You betcha! I try to suppress as much quirk as I can so I don’t appear crazy, but running water ain’t one ‘em.
I appreciate the still of the night and before I go to bed, I do take a few seconds to meditate on its serenity. If a noise is detected I apply a mental post-it-note, run the sound through my “Am I going to have to shoot it” meter, and assess any threat to my impending slumber. Strangely, I can sleep through thunder, war, explosions, but let there be a constant drip of water and I’m on it.
I enjoy my sleep, it is to me what a baby cub is to a mother bear, precious. I will protect it. Maybe the phone’s on/off ringer button was too difficult to maneuver, but I have awakened many mornings to find the pajamas – from being too hot – I was wearing, or the phone two feet away, disassembled, detached from the cord and on the floor. I never remembered doing any of it either.
So what I wake up with broken items next to the bed! I have never awakened lying next to the kitchen sink, running water will not prevail.
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