Skills practiced since childhood
never go waste. I have developed some weird sleeping habit of late that has
been too chronic to blame on jet lag. I doze off by 9 pm every day, as soon as G’s
kids are off to sleep. As a result, I wake up by 4 am, starving and my stomach
growling angrily. So I am really proud of the way I have honed my primal food
hunting and food gathering instincts. The fridge is on the
first floor while I sleep on the second floor, mathematically at the longest
distance from the fridge. I almost feel like Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment
while doing these stunts every day.
1. See and walk in the dark, with only the blue little light of the thermostat mounted on the wall guiding me.
2. Tiptoe silently down the creaky wooden stairs and the wooden floors, so as not to wake up the adult humans and the tiny humans.
3. Stay away from the activated alarms, and from accidentally turning on any light, or initiating any 9-1-1-kind of disaster.
4. Not step or trip on squeaky toys on the floor.
5. Scan food quickly for stuff like dahi vada, gajar halwa, idli, and fruit cake, carefully avoiding the salads and the vegetables, and avoiding spilling, breaking, and disasters of such kinds.
6. Eat quickly, and in the dark. Also, wash my hands, opening the tap minimally to avoid any sound of water flowing.
7. Not get startled by the sounds in this home. Dish washers, the house heating furnace, and mostly, snoring human beings in the house.
8. Tiptoe back to my room quietly, carefully avoiding the squeaky bed, or bumping into any sleeping human or humanoid.
9. Perform the entire stunt of hunting, food gathering, eating, and finding my way back in less than five minutes.
10. Not re-enter the wrong room in the dark by mistake.
1. See and walk in the dark, with only the blue little light of the thermostat mounted on the wall guiding me.
2. Tiptoe silently down the creaky wooden stairs and the wooden floors, so as not to wake up the adult humans and the tiny humans.
3. Stay away from the activated alarms, and from accidentally turning on any light, or initiating any 9-1-1-kind of disaster.
4. Not step or trip on squeaky toys on the floor.
5. Scan food quickly for stuff like dahi vada, gajar halwa, idli, and fruit cake, carefully avoiding the salads and the vegetables, and avoiding spilling, breaking, and disasters of such kinds.
6. Eat quickly, and in the dark. Also, wash my hands, opening the tap minimally to avoid any sound of water flowing.
7. Not get startled by the sounds in this home. Dish washers, the house heating furnace, and mostly, snoring human beings in the house.
8. Tiptoe back to my room quietly, carefully avoiding the squeaky bed, or bumping into any sleeping human or humanoid.
9. Perform the entire stunt of hunting, food gathering, eating, and finding my way back in less than five minutes.
10. Not re-enter the wrong room in the dark by mistake.
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