Sunday, February 12, 2006

how i got locked in a bathroom and nearly lost my mind in the process

spent the weekend with my bunnies in a windy haven where the stars and sunlight kept us company. sat around all night saturday talking about things that should have been talked about two years ago, and shared in savoring the possibility of the reality of having love in my future.

bedtime was supposed to be at 3 am since we had hot air balloons to meet at 5:30 am, and i dutifully planned to do my ablutions to try to catch some much needed sleep. as soon as i got into the bathroom and locked the door behind me, i knew something was wrong. there was an ominous lack of reassuring click from the doorknob. i tried the knob to open the door, and nothing happened. i whispered calmly to myself “i seem to be locked in the bathroom.” a split-second later, i was pounding the door and walls and screaming to my bunnies “I’M LOCKED IN!!! GET ME OUT GET ME OUT GETMEOOOOOOOOOOUT!!!!”

a zillion thoughts zinged through my mind – the bathroom window is too tiny for me to crawl through; maybe i can ram the door and break it down off its hinges; i have a swiss army knife in my bag next to my shampoo; what if they can’t get me out, how can they use the bathroom – but the only thing i was capable of doing was to scream “GET ME OUT GET ME OUT GET ME OUT NOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!”

finally, 15 hysterical minutes later, bunnies managed to remove the doorknob from the door. the door swung open and i burst out of the bathroom and collapsed onto the bed, laughing and crying hysterically, forgetting that i was still clutching the other half of the cursed doorknob. the whole nightmare happened over a period of 15 minutes (and give or take a million years) and the bunnies were laughing their heads off the whole time.

so that ordeal was over, and i didn’t get to pee in that bathroom that night anymore.

this is for my bunnies, who do all things in an atmosphere of love, well-being and world peace. love you bunnies

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