My Mornings

Every morning, when my alarm clock goes off, a little demon wakes up before I do and tries as hard as he can to delay my day.

Sometimes, he sets my alarm clock back 30 minutes. Other times, when he wakes up way before me, he just turns the alarm clock off and I sleep for another three hours. He used to whisper in my ear (when I was in school) that I was way ahead in my classes and that I should take a break from them, or at least from my earliest one. Now, he looks for my work laptop so he can send an "out sick" email to my boss.

Yeah, he's a jerk, but I've got his number. I put my alarm clock at the other end of my room, and leave my work laptop out in the car. He still makes it to the "snooze" button from time to time, but I always wake up and stop him before he can do anything more dangerous.

Problem is, I have to stay awake to keep him at bay. I have a 45-minute drive to work, which is almost entirely straight highway driving. From time to time, I catch him reaching for the wheel, or moving towards one of the pedals. So far, nothing's come of it, but something in the back of my head (maybe him) tells me that it's only a matter of time.