Beep beep... BEEP. 
The alarm clock was sounding it's hellish beeping, the exact 
reason why I bought it, so I would wake up. My hand found 
it's way to the clock and landed violently, evasive of my 
knowledge on the 'off' button instead of the 'snooze' 
button. I was back to sleep in no time. 
I awoke 15 minutes later from a wheel screeching of a car 
taking a hurried right turn. I jumped out of bed and stared 
at the clock "damn-it" I muttered "should have been up 10 
minutes ago". There was a moment of hesitation, calculation 
and a decision that I could make it if i was fast enough. 
I ran to the shower smearing my toothbrush with toothpaste 
and my face with shaving gel simultaneously. While brushing 
my teeth frantically I was already half way shaving, I had 
to stop a second to shave my chin so I won't get a nasty 
cut. My face twisted in pain as I cut myself anyway. Seconds 
later I was Putting a belt on my pants while trying to stop 
the bleeding with a piece of Kleenex. Down the stairs and 
into the living room grabbed my house keys, grabbed a coat 
and out the front door, a hesitated stop, ran back in 
grabbed my wallet back out closing and locking the door 
behind me. 
Down the street a hundred meters and into the train station 
"damn" the train left 2 minutes early. Now I have to wait 
50 minutes till the next train. 
Everything blurred out. 
 
Beep beep... BEEP. 
The alarm clock was sounding it's hellish beeping, the exact 
reason why I bought it, so I would wake up. My hand found 
it's way to the clock and landed violently, evasive of my 
knowledge on the 'off' button instead of the 'snooze' 
button. I was back to sleep in no time. 
I awoke 15 minutes later from a wheel screeching of a car 
taking a hurried right turn. I jumped out of bed, I was just 
about to look at the clock when I realized I knew what the 
time was, 15 past 8, I took a glance and saw the time was 
correct. I remembered my dream, too many details to be a 
dream, I set the clock to quarter to 9, so I will be sure to 
catch the next train. 
Beep beep... BEEP. 
"I'm awake damn-it" and smashed the 'off' button, 
intentionally. I went through all the morning ritual, 
without cutting myself to my pride and went out to the train 
station. As I was walking past the information desk I 
stopped, stared for a few moments and went to the desk 
clerk. 
"yes what can I do for you?" she asked. 
"I was wondering, when did the last train leave?" 
"oh, yes we are very sorry about the 2 minutes earlier 
departure, if you will call our manager I am sure..." 
I cut her off with a huge smile on my face "no it is fine, I 
was just wondering".  |