My fellow Odyssey contributor (Emma Wooten) collaborated with me for this article, as we share a hatred for waking up early for school. My ideas are in the regular print, her ideas are in the bold print. Here is a list of things we would rather do than wake up at 5:30am for school:
- Not wake up at all for school
- Step on a Lego
- Clean my entire house
- Pour lemon juice on a paper cut
- Be forced to watch every single episode of The Twilight Zone (I hate this show with my entire being)
- Eat a spoonful of salt with every meal
- Trip up the stairs
- Trip down the stairs
- Sleep with my closet doors open (one of my biggest fears because monsters)
- Fix crooked window blinds all day
- Eat a lot of radishes (radishes taste like onions on steroids- no thank you)
- Deal with a really touchy self-checkout register at the store and have an employee have to keep checking on me (not a fan of public attention)
- Hear nails on a chalkboard through headphones all day
- Put fitted sheets on beds all day long (do not fight me on this either I work up quite the sweat)
- Walk around in broken flip-flops all day
- Hit every red light on a long drive
- Accidentally shower with socks on
- Fall flat on my face in front of a large crowd
- Have my water bottle spill all over my backpack with all my school stuff in it
- Kiss a snake
- Stub my toe
- Eat the heel of a loaf of bread
- Get a paper cut in between my fingers (the worst kind- don’t fight me)
- Buy food from a vending machine and have it get stuck inside
- Lose all the contacts on my phone (again)
- Buy another item of food to get the first one loose from the machine and have that one also get stuck
- Miss my mouth while eating something and having it spill on my clothes
- Get a cart at the grocery store with a wonky wheel
- Listen to country music for a whole day
- Look at the clock at 11:12
- Push a door you're supposed to pull or vice versa in public
- Wear my top inside out
- Shatter my phone screen
- Go a whole day without realizing I had food stuck in my teeth
- Shower with sunburn
- Be in a room with ten spiders
- Accidentally bite my tongue
- Give my phone to someone else and find that they've changed all my contacts to their name
- Forget my headphones when I need them
- Drink water from the Dead Sea
- Tangle my necklaces together and having to spend 8 years untangling them
- Eat dirt
- Be electrocuted (just a little though)
- Listen to silverware scrape against a plate
- Relive my middle school years (jk too far)
- Drive over a nail and get a flat tire
- Spill nail polish remover
- Get stuck in an elevator for an hour or more (I am terrified of tight spaces and elevators)
- Hold my hand over a fire
- Trip on my laptop cord, fall, and bring the laptop down with me
- Get my face ripped off by a pet monkey
