Thursday, July 14, 2005

Accordion Wakeup

Imagine just falling into a comfortable deep sleep on a couch. The air is cool and silence lingers like dewdrops on blades of grass after a Spring rain.

Unknowingly, somebody tiptoes into the room with a blue and white accordion strapped onto their person as bystanders wait and watch with baited breath, not making a single sound. The accordion is now being held, bellows wide open, just mere feet away from your sleepy little head which is still drifting off into the land of pink skies, unicorns, and gumdrops.

Everyone else is still watching. Accordion Wakeup is about to commence.

All fingers of the accordion bearer are pressed down on as many of the accordion's buttons as they can cover. Suddenly, the accordion is squeezed together with a sheer force equivalent to a full speed freight train. It creates a 2 second tornado of the most frightening, loud, lame noise you can ever imagine.

You awake in utter terror and your body convulses for a split second in whichever way it decides to go. You are now wide awake and everyone is laughing at you, because you were just the next victim of Accordion Wakeup.

This is how my brother Chuck woke his friend Jared up earlier this week and it was one of the most hilarious things I've seen since the Full Moon. Jared returned the favor with the squeeze box a few days later as Chuck was napping. You ain't seen nothing until you've witnessed Accordion Wakeup.

I quickly decided to refrain from taking any naps while they've been staying here... hmm, I wonder why?