So, we were laying in the bed talking, right after she had taken an Ambien. She was very fascinated by the ceiling fan. Somehow, in her Ambien induced state of altered awareness, it turned into a guy on a tightrope. She’s laying beside me describing all of this in vivid detail, asking me if I see it, and somehow bewildered that I didn’t.
Sometimes to humor her, or just to move the conversation along, or just to be able to get the hell out of the conversation, I will tell her that I see what she’s seeing, or that I understand what it is that she’s saying. Most of the time I don’t even have any idea what she might me talking about, because most of what she says is downright insane. We’ve had conversations about other people being in the room, people watching us have sex, watching others have sex, threesomes, Disney characters, and the one from tonight: Cirque Du Soliel.
She tells me that the the guy ‘up there’ near the ceiling fan is walking a tightrope and doing other acrobatic things like Cirque Du Soliel. She then proceeds to tell me to go login to TicketMaster and order tickets to their upcoming show. Of course there is no upcoming show, because if there was I’d already know about it (I’m a big fan). I told her no, which of course happened to eb the wrong thing to say this particular night. So, I humored her, I sat down at the computer and looked for Cirque Du Soliel, to no avail. So, I had a choice, and I made the right one. I could have told her I couldn’t find it, which would have resulted in her getting up and trying to find it herself, which would have the further result of her ordering tickets to god knows what is some city 1500 miles from here, and I really don’t want to drive 1500 miles to see Snoopy On Ice. So, I told her it was sold out. To which she replied “ok”, and went right to sleep.
Sweet dreams, sweetie.