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A Good Day to Get Some More Sleep
A particular day in the life of…..
I woke up to the alarm just like any other day. It was 7:30 AM, and I rolled out of bed, got dressed, and headed towards work. But something was wrong. I felt off. The coffee I had drunk last night didn’t taste the same as usual. And my breakfast cupcakes tasted weird too.
There was no way that they were coming from the bakery down the street. Maybe I had picked up the wrong kind at the store? It also could have been that I ate them too soon after buying them, which often happens when I’m in a rush in the morning before work because it’s closer to my house than that bakery.
As I pulled into the work parking lot, there was a big red “CLOSED” sign on the door. I walked around and tried every other entrance on every other door, but nothing was opening. The glass windows were shut tight, and it seemed like no one had been there since the last time I worked there.
I started panicking as I realized that this had to be a dream because none of those things would ever happen together all at once. Then I woke up…realizing that those things did indeed happen all at once…and they happened to me, just not in real life.
The message tone for my friend popped up on my phone, letting me know she had sent another stupid text message to me about…