Dreaming

Man, this is the last time I take a nap with the channel selector on the cable box set at 16 (Discovery Travel & Adventure) because, I swear, some of it got into my head while I was dreaming.

OK, these are just vague impressions, but this was what happened: I was at my grandparents' provision shop (already gone -- it's made way for something else), my cousins were there and they were all in our favourite corner of the place. Then somehow or other, they morphed into the missus's friends and one of them started talking about her top ten place she'd like to visit in America. I remember distinctly it was a she and she was married. And she just wouldn't shut up. Even when she got up to her top two destination and mentioned someplace that I'd already been to and I was trying to be smug about it.

I turned to the wife and said, "Ha! We've been there!" but the same words just wouldn't come out after I'd turned to her friend and was trying to show her up.

So there I was, thinking why the hell couldn't I speak and what was that god-awful ringing next to my head. Then I woke up to Channel 16, Top Ten Places to Visit in America, and my mobile phone.

Damn.