Oct 21 2008
rude awakening
I woke up to what I thought at first was a war going on. Then I thought my neighbors were moving furniture behind our adjacent wall. Finally I realized that when the landlord said that roofers were going to be coming early to fix the roof on Tuesday morning, they meant they’d be starting at 7am and launching a full-scale attack on removing the shingles.
You know when you’re little, and you believe in Santa Claus, and you lie awake for a while listening for hoofbeats? I always imagined they’d be rather dainty and quiet, personally. Well, this sounds like what it would actually sound like if a herd of reindeer landed on your roof. And then, you know, milled around for a while.
One response so far
Even squirrels are not particularly dainty or quiet. There are many trees right near my roof. The bedroom is on the second floor and on weekend mornings I am reliably woken by the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa-skitter of a scurry of squirrels (yes, I did look up that collective noun).
Still, I think a little kid could be persuaded that Santa’s reindeer are very very small with bushy tails. Reduces drag from the winter wind and all.