Friday, January 22, 2010

Church Bells?

"What the hell is that?"
"Bells"
"What sort of bells?"
"Church bells."
"What time is it?"
"Six oclock."
"You can't have church bells at 6 o'clock in the morning."
"Maybe there's a service."
"But it's Friday."
"Maybe it's some sort of memorial day--like Anzac Day, and they ring the bells because they landed on the wrong beach at 6 o'clock in the morning."
"Perhaps it's a fire alarm."
"Or an earthquake alarm."
"Or a volcano alarm."
"I'll look out the window and see if there is panic in the streets. No, nothing happening in the streets..but, just a second--IT'S THE GODDAM ALARM CLOCK, switched to wake up the previous guest in this room.
I hit a button and the beautiful church bells, which had reached quite a crescendo, stopped immediately.
And started again in ten minutes--quietly at first, and rising and rising until we unplugged the damn alarm radio.

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