» wake up | One Dollar Jackpot - 25 Words or Less Competition

Let the phone ring, let’s go back to sleep
Let the world spin outside out door, you’re the only one that I wanna see
Tell your boss you’re sick, hurry, get back in I’m getting cold
Get over here and warm my hands up, boy, it’s you they love to hold
And stop thinking about what your sister said
Stop worrying about it, the cat’s already been fed
Come on darlin’, let’s go back to bed

Without looking - who wrote that?

I was awake one morning.
Didn’t think much of it.
Haven’t done it since.

Tom - you are a pure genius. I really like this idea of not getting up in the morning. A fine idea, but then so is communism. I always get headaches when I sleep in too much.

Benjamin has an idea like yours Tom - he says

Go back to bed.

I say get your lazy bum up and get a job! And while you’re at it clean your room it’s a pig sty! Your mother and I have worked hard for you, don’t just take it for granted. One day you’re going to be in the same situation - then we’ll see how much you like it. (oooh someone’s got issues!)

I immediately think of
what happened
the night before.
And then I sing.
Usually what was in my head
the day before.

What happened the night before? Did you do something bad Jen? I might let your parents know you’ve been selling communion wine. So dodgy.

In the morning some people do more respectable things - unlike Jen, who might want to take a lesson from someone like Melanie. Melanie does some pretty standard stuff.

Take a bath, put on clothes, drink some caffeine, and pray for millions.

Let me know if I’m out of line here but I prefer some coffee with my caffeine - it just tastes better.

I usually press the snooze button more then one time. After I watch Malcom in the Middle, eat, dress, and run out the door.

Oh do you now Lauren? Well there’s help for people like you out there in the wide wide world. I’m sure when you run out of the door you probably face some resistance right? Like say… the door?

By the way, while I’m at it, Rebecca what kind of a name is Don for a superhero? Come on - your superhero persona could come with a bit of ‘persona’ if you know what I mean. ‘Don The Superhero’. Just doesn’t sound very powerful. Although you could have friends like ‘James The Polite’, ‘Plain Jane’ and ‘Simon The Sensible’ - you could be a group called ‘The Adequate Four’. You would get your work done without fuss and always early.

Don my superhero persona and fight crime.
No, wait, stay in my jammies and eat breakfast.
Need to protect my secret identity
from bad guys.

Byron was a bit silly - he sent in 5 responses. Can you decode his tricky entries? I know I can’t.

1. Enter
2. One
3. Dollar
4. Many
5. Many

But again there can be only one. The one is one today. He is indeed Tom! Congratulations Tom - your reasoning and logic cannot be denied : out of bed good, in bed better.

Today is my younger brother’s 24th birthday and as our usual tradition dictates, we went over to my parents house (where he lives) to wish him a happy birthday and have some breakfast before heading off to work. So - what did he wake up to? Me! Being a right silly man singing happy birthday loudly to help him get up. Oh and my wife, another brother and his wife singing too. It was much fun for us - not much fun for him. We then decided that since he wasn’t up yet we would act like my father. Make as much noise as possible without thinking about other people at that time of the morning. It was great. But it did not get him up. Food ended up getting him up - it always does. Guess what we gave him for his birthday?

So what would you like to wake up to? Here’s just a few of the entries received today:

• When I wake up, I think it’s funny: hear the sheets and dream it’s money!
• I love to wake up to the sound of my better half snoring!
• The bing of a new email telling me I’ve won a dollar.
• “George Bush was assassinated this morning.”
• “Oh my god! You’re more beautiful than I remembered!”
• The staccato SNAP of sinovial sap, and the creak of my ankle, too!

Not everyone of those was the greatest sound I could imagine - guess which one was my least favourite?

No - my favourite today came from Cecile again. She entered a really nice warm entry that made me think I’d like to drink coffee in the morning some time. Here’s how she’d like to wake up:

The sound of water boiling
In the kettle, signaling;
Then poured into my mug of coffee,
Stirred and brought beside me…
What a wonderful morning!

Great stuff Cecile! Enjoy your dollar - maybe like Byron you will spend it all at once. I’d advise against it.