Secret Surprise Sleeping Adventure
In which Bob from Nuclear Power Pants unwittingly plays Goldilocks, & the kind young woman playing the Three Bears offers an alternate ending.
After Eyes Night in Buffalo, a small group of us were invited by the charitable Amy & Nick to sleep in the attic above their apartment. At maybe 7 AM I awoke cold. (I didn’t bring a blanket or sleeping bag on tour.) I remembered that we were also free to sleep on a couch in the living room. Less than half awake & seeking warmth, I grabbed my pillow and headed down stairs.
The stairs were longer than I remembered, but when they were done, I landed in a kitchen that looked right to me. I passed by the open bathroom door, where a young woman was washing up for work. I assumed she was a housemate of Nick & Amy’s.
She gave me a startled, questioning “umm…hi” & I fugured that she just hadn’t been made aware of the group of people invited to sleep in the house, which was true, of course, but the context was not as I had assumed. I decided it was right to identify myself. I told her my name, said we had all played a show last night and a bunch of us were sleeping the attic. I explained that it had gotten cold and I came down to try out the living room.
There was a significant pause (significant of what exactly I had not yet guessed), and then she said okay & retrieved for me several blankets. I grabbed them and immediately curled up on the couch to get back to the business of sleeping.
As I was dozing off, she informed me that she was leaving for work & would be locking the door, so when I needed to leave I would need to go upstairs and out thru the other apartment. And then it still took me until after she had actually left (leaving a stranger alone in her house) that I realized I was not where I should be at all. This revelation made me very anxious and I threw off the blankets like they were leeches & raced back to where I rightfully belonged.
To the young woman in the first floor apartment: you are a singularly amazing human being for what you have done.
