h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Are you sure you don't like it at all?

well.. that depends next to whom I wake up

yes, that's what I mean

mmm..

... one more and thread?

You don't really need to keep them all going. I was just reading your U-page and had a question.

ah .. yes I forgot about that

the moment of waking up can be very harsh.. realising that again I didn't manage to win a multi-MegaEuro lottery prize (because I don't buy tickets), that again I'll have to face a hostile world where hostile people expect me to w*rk and be friendly to them...

see what I mean?

But it can be quite the opposite as well. I mean, slowly getting aware of another wonderful day when nothing urgent or hostile is going to happen, sensing someone else still sleeping next to you, hearing the universe going on without you putting any effort in it and knowing that you'd like to stretch that moment... no, not forever, to another sweet hug of sleep.. or someone else.

mmmmmm... yes, I think I'd go for that last option

Doesn't happen too often though.

*looks out into a gloomy wet world*

I woke up this morning .. and everything hurts! every bone, every rib..

no, massage wouldn't be a good idea I guess

Oh it would. Just a very gently one, and with special oil.

ah.. really? ah well, ok

* stretches out *

Mind you, you may not like the smell of the oil.

oh.. aaahhh.. what sort of ... smell would that be?

Camphor and eucalyptus.

camphor .. is that the stuff to reduce sexual lust? the stuff used in army kitchens?

No, surely not!