Monday, August 22, 2011

Sweet Dreams

As most of you know, I've diagnosed myself as suffering from night terrors. Last night I had a particularly dramatic one that I thought I would share with you. I had a dream that a little girl was running and going to jump out a window (a la Hudsucker Proxy except that it was an open window). I, being the chivalrous man I am, decided to make a leap for the girl and keep her from going out the window. Apparently, as all this was going on in my head the rest of me decided to make a real life leap toward my own window (which is about 2-3 feet from my bed). Whilst I did not go out the window myself I did crash rather hard into the wall/radiator with my knee. Thankfully, my knee escaped this ordeal relatively unscathed, but I'm afraid I can't say the same about our poor radiator.





Consequently, if anyone has some tips on fixing radiators on the cheap I'm all ears.

7 comments:

J-losica said...

You are luck your knee hit it and not your head. Crazy man!

J-losica said...

lucky that is

Kat Stevens said...

Seriously, you are way luck. I don't know about fixing the radiator, but you need to see a doctor about your condition before you leap out of an open window in the middle of the night. I saw an Unsolved Mysteries the other day about a boy in high school who was on track and ran himself to death one night sleep running...Seek help now!

Brian said...

As far as your radiator goes you can take of your cover plate and try stepping on it to straighten it and with the pieces you can't take off try wrapping them with a cloth so they don't scratch and use a pair of vise grips to straighten out the bends.
For the record I agree with Katie you need some mess or restraints imagine if you got Reid while you were asleep? I'm not trying to be stupid but you could really hurt yourself or a family member.

Ben said...

Well I will be seeing a doctor about my nighttime exploits, but as far as Reid is concerned he doesn't sleep in our bed. I've never made it further than a few feet from my bed without waking up, so I'm not too worried he'll be hurt.

Lauren Szilagyi said...

You're so crazy! I love these stories they are quite entertaining!

Bizzie said...

Oh Benny! I'm glad you didn't make it out the window!