Sproing!
Sproing!!
His mind was sluggish at three in the morning and his eyes sleepy-laden. He slowly opened them and saw his navel peeping out of his unbuttoned night-suit shirt.
‘I’m lying down,’ he thought, ‘how can I see my own navel?’ He thought he was still dreaming and pulling himself out of his bed took slow heavy steps to the bathroom to splash some cold water on his eyes.
With his eyes focused on the wash basin tap he let his hands cup some water that he threw towards his eyes.
Splash!
Splash!!
The water seemed to hit the wall behind him! He turned his face back and actually saw the water dripping down the wall through his half-open eyes.
‘Something is wrong somewhere,’ his mind seemed to tell him as he turned back and looked at the mirror.
What he saw, shocked him… but made his eyes open wide without that customary splash! His eyes were at least a foot above his unshaven face poised on a spring made of his own ligaments.
What surprised him was that his eyes spoke and said, ‘I hate that smelly stubble. And here I stay until you get rid of it!’
The night my eyes hated my stubble!
This post is a part of the Protest Against Smelly Stubble Activity in association with BlogAdda.
Tagged friends: Sangita Passey
My series of 10 posts on smelly stubbles:
ONE
Poets write, stubbles don’t
TWO
Autobiography of that unclean stubble
THREE
There’s more to stubble than you really know
FOUR
The stubble debate
FIVE
The tricky twins!
SIX
Men in pursuit
SEVEN
Part and parcel
EIGHT
Twenty-four years later
NINE
We-can-we-will
https://passey.info/2013/12/we-can-we-will/
TEN
This happened at three in the morning
Arvind Passey
05 December 2013
15 comments
Rickie says:
Dec 5, 2013
Hah! I wonder why the nose didn’t follow the eyes, though!
Arvind Passey says:
Dec 5, 2013
The eyes probably thought: ‘It’s all in the mind!’ 🙂
Aditya manchanda says:
Dec 5, 2013
Nice post Sir!!
Arvind Passey says:
Dec 5, 2013
Thanks a lot, buddy! 🙂
Pooja says:
Dec 5, 2013
Made me laugh! And loved the cartoon 🙂
Arvind Passey says:
Dec 6, 2013
Great… though I was trying to write something macabre and something that pierces through the genteel notions of psychology. 🙂
Pooja says:
Dec 6, 2013
But it did create a startling image too, so you did succeed with that 😀
Arvind Passey says:
Dec 7, 2013
Thanks! 🙂
Arvind Passey says:
Dec 6, 2013
Thanks for liking the illustration, Pooja. 🙂
Someone is Special says:
Dec 5, 2013
The best part of your story is your doodle. I just loved it 🙂 Keep writing AP!
Someone is Special
Arvind Passey says:
Dec 6, 2013
Well… chalo, good to know that you liked the doodle there. I’m sure you’ll love my writing too if you keep coming back. 🙂
Garima nag says:
Dec 14, 2013
Love the sweet story . And as always loveeed your doodle . Here is my entry & I have tagged you . Hope you will acknowledge the tag 🙂
http://www.sweetsharing.com/women-dont-want/
Arvind Passey says:
Dec 18, 2013
Thanks for dropping by on my blog… reading… and commenting. Hope to see you here often, Garima.
Yes, I am back with my blog after a break… my son’s marriage was on the 14th of December… so let me see if I still remember this tagging complexity or not. 🙂
S.R.Pateliya says:
Dec 19, 2013
Great one sir! Back after a long time here. Even the mind didn’t like it yet men have to keep that stubble. God knows why? But I must admit some do look cute in stubble.
Arvind Passey says:
Dec 20, 2013
Yes, they do… even I’d personally love to sport one but cannot as the hair on my face aren’t dense enough for a great-looking stubble. Thanks for liking the post. 🙂