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June 22, 2005
How to be very, very unpopular:
Sleep in Mom's trailer.
Wake up early, yanked out of sleep by the prospect of visiting the trailer's official resident in the hospital (I have now spent enough time there to recognize the nurses by their voices - no visual aids required).
Go to bathroom at sister's house across the yard.
When exiting bathroom, scare the friend who stayed over last night and was on her way into the bathroom, unaware that anyone else was awake.
Friend says there is coffee in sister's house. Already made. Just sitting there seductively.
Given the looming hospital visit and the unbeatable allure of caffeine to the uncaffeinated, go in house.
Entrance announced by three large barking dogs.
Barking wakes up sister, who is famously unable to get back to sleep after she's woken up.
Sister comes downstairs and asks, "When you almost never get up before 10 in the morning, why did you have to pick the morning of the day I'm starting three 12 hour night shifts to get up early?" (Note: she's an Emergency Medical Technician, so it's not like she's just going to the office to play with paper and pens.)
I say something about coffee. She's so scary I'm afraid to answer what was almost certainly a rhetorical question. I also don't think it's a good idea to say that I pretty much get up by 8 most mornings.
She points out that there's coffee in the trailer.
"But not already made," I tell her.
She looks at me with great disgust and says, "You know better than to come in the house."
Now I do. And you do, too.
Posted by Suzy at June 22, 2005 05:21 PM
Comments
The dogs -- should have listen to the dogs. They were trying to warn you. Cerberus like thee dogs heads barking!
Posted by: Ken at June 23, 2005 03:25 AM
But you had to use the bathroom????
Posted by: Kathleen at June 23, 2005 06:33 AM
Well, the bathroom in the trailer is non-functional, and Meg's is in a building attached to her house by the porch, so it's not actually *in* the house. It's Mendo, man!
Posted by: Suzy at June 23, 2005 07:40 AM
Peeing and coffee. Both valid reasons to me!
Posted by: Mike at June 23, 2005 09:01 AM
Yowza - sisters can be scary when they're grumpy!! Don't mess with mine if she's hungry - she's CRANKY.
Posted by: LisaB at June 24, 2005 12:40 PM
Suzy-Girl, I promise never to wake up your sister early. *grin*
Posted by: Michelle at June 24, 2005 01:22 PM