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June 27, 2005

Bunny can sleep through anything

I am a light sleeper. I wake up at least 6 times a night because the cat sneezed, a car horn honked, light came in the window, the kid snored down the hall or the minute hand turned on the clock.

You get my drift I wake at the drop of a hat.

My friend Bunny can sleep anywhere, anytime, through anything. She told me once that she fell asleep at a Marilyn Manson concert.

The summer before I moved to Seattle with Bunny, we had gone out to a bar in Kzoo and we had to drive back to GR that same night. I decided to drive as I was not drunk and I was wide awake. Bunny handed me the keys to her grandpa's car. Some sort of 1980's Buickish 4 door with the interior celing felt falling down and absolutely NO suspension. It was like driving one of those hoopty cars that bounce on purpose.

Anyway, Things were bouncing along the highway nicely so Bunny promptly fell asleep and I was left to drive and listen to bad radio.

As we entered the subdivision where my parents lived, I was thinking we were home safe. I turned the last corner before their driveway and a possum ran out into the road directly in front of me. I gripped the wheel with both hands and stomped on the brake. Next to me bunny flew forward and slammed her head on the dashboard then bounced back into her seat, limp. Driving the last few yards home, I was thinking that surely I had killed her. At the same time, I was almost peeing myself with supressed laughter because of the hysterical spectacle of Bunny zinging through the air the way she had.

I pulled into my parents driveway and stopped the car. I turned in the seat and called her name. "Bunny? Bunny, are you ok?" Then I shook her and yelled her name, which made her barely open an eye and grumble as she came slowly awake. She had slept through it all!

I wasn't going to tell her what had happened but I had to, in order to tell the story over and over to all our friends.

Posted by bugg at June 27, 2005 12:30 PM

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Posted by: melanie at June 27, 2005 08:53 PM