Tick, tock
Posted on | February 18, 2003 |
A tale of mystery and intrigue abounds today. I had a test today so I had been studying on my bed Sunday and Monday. Whenever I was quietly studying I could hear a prominent tick-tock. Strange, I thought to myself, I had never heard this before now. Perhaps I had just never paid attention? I was about ready to rip out the wall to see if there was a clock hidden within its bowels.
Now flash back to Thursday or Friday. Roommate Y had decided the clock in our living room was too loud. She replaced it with another clock and that was that. Or so I thought. Saturday a board fell out from under my bed. I decided I should consult housemate X to see what to do with it, but then forgot about it. Yesterday she stops to talk to me, lays on my bed, and upon getting up, my bed falls apart. Yes, that’s right, it falls apart. Not by her fault of course, but there is an extra board leaning against my wall that must be necessary for support (hmmm…haha). So X and I drag off the mattress and box spring to investigate. As we start to nail back in the boards (it turns out more than one board had come unfastened), I see what looks like an upside down clock.
It turns out Y had stashed the clock there unbeknownst to me. We all about died laughing as I had thought it to be quite curious that I had just started hearing a tick-tock near my bed. Talk about not putting two-and-two together.