#OngoingAdventure: Am I Awake?
Option Chosen: Call your best friend
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The recycling bin was glowing.
Sure, you’d been chucking all sorts of weird drafts in there but none of them were radioactive, were they? Wow, how even in moments of panic you try to crack dumb dad jokes.
Your stomach growls. Cheese hasn’t sat well in your stomach since you turned a “tiny bit lactose intolerant” a few years ago, but this was more than that.
Inside the recycling bin, that fancy envelope you’d thought was a fancy version of spam mail was glowing bright green.
You rubbed your eyes just to make sure — it still glowed.
You even shift from where you are at the desk in case the light was playing tricks on your eyes — still glowing.
Too afraid to approach, you call your best friend Reveille. It’s Saturday and before noon so she’d probably be sleeping in, but she needs to hear this.
She picks up the phone after the third ring and all you hear is a long groan. Before she starts, you launch into your explanation.
“I know it’s before noon but you have to hear about this.”
(grunt)
“I got this fancy mail this morning and chucked it in the recycling bin because I thought it was spam and now it’s glowing???”
Silence on the other end, before Reveille finally says:
“It’s too early for this if this is a prank. Honestly, just go back to sleep, maybe you were dreaming”
Click.
You wring your hands. Am I really this sleep-deprived, you wonder?
Options:
👉 Take a nap 👉 Call back and insist it’s not a dream. 👉 Approach the envelope with a Swiffer stick and fish it out gingerly.