The Morning Class

Morning classes are never reached unscathed. Built to torment classes scheduled early in the day are meant to hurt you in the most torturous ways possible!

Now, imagine this.

Comfortable at the late-night gig the night before the class you'd probably sworn to stick to the expensive booze just so you could steer clear of the customary hang-over most cheap shots tend to award you with. You'd hitched a ride back to the hostel early and religiously set your alarm at the earliest hour possible.

Brushed your teeth.

Written down ever last bit of to-do's you wanted to remember the next morning and then finally switched the light off with a sigh.

And yet!

And yet the wave of slumber just wouldn't come!!!

You tossed right and left looking for a posture that might induce the sleep to break in.

You counted the sheep.

You chanted backwards from 100 to 1.

You played your favourite lullaby track on your comp.

And yet!!!!

'Darn it', you probably thought and slipped out a text book in disgust, if you were going to stay up you might as well make your waking hours fruitful.

But no, nothing doing. Though sleep deprived your eyes were anything but willing to be drawn into the textbook horizon. So word after word, sentence after sentence floated away, beyond your grasp, even though your eyes remained, firmly stuck to the page before you.

What COULD you do to make sure you didn't turn up at your classroom groggy eyed next morning.

You consider your options.

A warm bath?

A cup of hot milk?

And then it strikes you. An idea so brilliant your entire room dazzles in its light!

Quickly you dial the number on our keypad and yank your half-asleep mother from her snooze. A Story would settle it all of course. Expensive though it would be (a GOOD story can last anywhere between 10 to 15 minutes and talk time doesn't exactly come cheap) it was a lethal weapon.

One bound to succeed.

Cosily you coil on your mattress and snuggle into the pillow.

The story trickles through the ear piece and you slip into the desired snore zone with fascinating ease.    

Finally!