Thursday, I was driving down to see Elegante Mother. I’d been to exercise, stopped at home long enough to water plants, and was on my way. I was about a third of the way there when I realized I was having trouble staying awake. That alone should have scared me into waking up, but I really needed to close my eyes.
\nI was passing the parking lot of a very large park district sports field. It was almost empty, so I thought I would pull in and take a quick nap. I’ve never done this before, but it seemed to be the best of the choices open to me.
\nI left the car running so that it would stay cool. I was parked so that I was facing away from the sun. I tilted my head back and was gone in a flash. About ten minutes later there was a loud knocking at my passenger window. A young woman was there, asking if I was all right. I’d fallen asleep with my mouth open, and she must have assumed that I had had a heart attack.
\nI was mightily embarrassed to have been caught like that, but comforted that a stranger would stop to check up on me. I reassured her that I was fine, and both of us left the parking lot. It seems that just ten minutes made all the difference. I made it to my destination without any problems.
\nI used to be the original sleep anywhere kid, but as I’ve gotten older my sleep patterns have changed a bit, and not for the best. I have a bad knee that makes it difficult to find a comfortable position in which to sleep, and it wakes me several times during the night. It addition to that, despite the fact that I want to be up at 5:00 in the morning, I still don’t have the smarts to be in bed at 9:00 at night. I really need to work on that. Short changing myself of sleep when I’m already deprived is just stupid! (Don’t tell my step-daughter I used that word. I’m supposed to be erasing it from my vocabulary for the sake of our granddaughters!)
\nAt any rate, all’s well that ends well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thursday, I was driving down to see Elegante Mother. I’d been to exercise, stopped at home long enough to water plants, and was on my way. I was about a third of the way there when I realized I was … Continue reading