Annoying things at night

        Many things annoy me at night. I just have these pet peeves that I can never deal with. Here are a few:

        The light at the end of the hallway. At the end of my house’s hallway there is a little box that appears to do absolutely nothing except make a little red light. At night, that light can scare the bejabbers out of you. I used to be terrified of it.

        The temperature of the pillow. The pillow I use is engineered (or at least I like to think so) so that It’s always to warm on one side and to cold on the other. Why can’t someone just invent pillows that have a little remote that makes the pillow warm or cool?

        Flushing the toilet. This one causes a huge dilemma. Our toilet flushes fairly loudly. So when I occasionally make a nighttime jaunt to the loo, I find myself trying to figure out how many people I would wake up in the process. Can they really hear it through 2 doors and a hallway? If they can, is it loud enough to wake them up? Is it appropriate to not flush the toilet and then try to explain myself to my parents the next morning? By this point I’m just not flushing it and promising myself I’ll be in the bathroom first tomorrow. 514^th time lucky, you think?

        Running out of water. I always sleep with a water bottle next to my bed. But when I drink some, I somehow always end up drinking half of it. I also get an uncontrollable urge to drink some when I fill up my bottle right before bed. This usually causes it to be empty by midnight. Usually I’m asleep through the night. But sometimes I get thirsty in the middle of the night, but I don’t want to get up to fill my bottle. Sometimes I suck it up and do it, but most of the time I just lie there in bed, hoping that I won’t die of thirst by morning. It’s not a good feeling, let me tell you.

        This may have been funny, but beware. One of these things will probably start happening to you approximately…now!