A gentle wake-up call
I took a short nap in the afternoon, before a phone call I had scheduled with my boss for 3:45 PM. Silly me, I didn't even think to set an alarm. But obviously being waken up by a call from your boss, and greeting him with a barely awake "hello" would be bad, right?
So, there I lay sideways on the couch with my face toward the wall, napping (and dreaming, as the case was). Somehow I got an odd feeling that my cousin (who lives in China with her husband) was standing behind me, and then she jumped and landed gently with both feet right on my love handle.
When I opened my eyes, I half-expected my cousin to be standing next to the couch. Obviously she wasn't there. Anyway, I took a quick swig of water to wet my dry throat, and immediately, behold, my phone rang. The call from my boss, which came 10 minutes earlier than expected.
The call went fine, and luckily for me I was pretty awake and my voice sounded normal, so I suffered no embarrassment. As soon as I'd hung up, I marveled at what just happened.
Unfathomable.
So, there I lay sideways on the couch with my face toward the wall, napping (and dreaming, as the case was). Somehow I got an odd feeling that my cousin (who lives in China with her husband) was standing behind me, and then she jumped and landed gently with both feet right on my love handle.
When I opened my eyes, I half-expected my cousin to be standing next to the couch. Obviously she wasn't there. Anyway, I took a quick swig of water to wet my dry throat, and immediately, behold, my phone rang. The call from my boss, which came 10 minutes earlier than expected.
The call went fine, and luckily for me I was pretty awake and my voice sounded normal, so I suffered no embarrassment. As soon as I'd hung up, I marveled at what just happened.
Unfathomable.