Last night Insomnia and I played video games until five in the morning. I don’t know why she hung around so long, I can’t even remember ever inviting her over. Regardless, she entered my room while I sleepily paged through Dean Koontz’s The Face without so much as a knock.
Too tired to do anything constructive, yet too alert to sleep, I decided to try and beat Tiger Heli on my NES. After an hour or two of monotonous button mashing my fingers grew weary and my stomach growled. I knew that if I didn’t satisfy my rumbling tummy Ms. Insomnia would never leave. So I threw on a pair of chinos and fired up my trusty fire engine red stallion.
Outside there was a light drizzle of rain and my small town was covered in a shroud of mist. In my obvious state of oblivion the irony of my surroundings went unnoticed. I drove to the only fast food chain that remains open at suck ungodly hours, Taco Bell. I took the wallet out of my back pocket and handed the cashier a bill. When I received my change I stuffed my wallet into an open compartment between my seats. I arrived famished, with thoughts of a pair of Baja chicken chalupas dancing merrily through my weary brain, and grabbed my food from the passenger seat paying no attention to my wallet.
When I entered my small town home turned the television on and ate my Taco Bell food with little gusto. Afterwards I attempted to go to sleep, unsuccessfully. I decided to play some more video games, fortunately their pixilated goodness kept me company until five am or so when I was finally able to fall asleep.
I slept in this morning and woke up in a foul mood. I knew something was going to be wrong. I went through the usual morning routine and headed out my door to work. It only took me a pull of a lever to realize what was wrong. My wallet was still in the open center compartment between the driver and passenger seats, but it was lacking the eighty or so dollars that were there the previous evening. I guess I forgot to lock my car door the previous evening. Luckily, the thief only took the cash out of my wallet and left my credit cards and ID.
