“You know what I’d like to do with you? I’d like to call you about 5:30 in the morning and wake you long enough for you to get up and unlock your front door. Then you can jump back into bed. I’ll take care of the rest!”
“That’s something different. No one’s ever suggested that to me. It sounds very exciting. How about tomorrow morning?”
“Let’s do it!”
I walked back to my job and I don’t think my feet touched the pavement at all!
About 4:00 the next morning I awoke, having reset the alarm to that hour the night before. I quickly changed the waking hour to a more respectable 6:30, turned the alarm off and checked to make sure my wife was sleeping soundly through the operation. I was shaved, showered, dressed and out the door by a quarter to five and I drove back to her house looking for a phone booth as I approached her street.
I dialed her number, getting more excited by the second. It rang three, four, five times. Nothing happened. Must be a really sound sleeper, I thought. I hung up and tried again.
On the third ring a muffled “Hullo?”
“Unlock your door and go back to bed”, I whispered.
“OK, bye”.
I hoped she was awake enough to play the game but she really sounded out of it. Oh well, only one way to find out. I finished the journey to her home, found a parking space a few cars down, and walked up the steps to her front door. I put my hand on the doorknob and turned it. The moment of truth, so to speak.
It opened!
I was feeling better every second!
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