The Curious Case of the Missing Top!
Picture it, a wet and windy evening, the bewitching hour! This is the time supposedly sensible children are long tucked away in bed, safe from the boogieman. So there I was! All alone! Shutting down grand central (my computer workstation) and switching off my office lights and I progressed along an eerily quiet and darkened house.
Ah! I think I shall get a nice cold glass of water for bed. A single light is on till I opened the fridge! The water bottle has an annoying habit of emptying itself. Hating to leave an empty bottle of water in the fridge I reluctantly decided to be responsible and apply said empty bottle to the water filter in order to reverse the order of things to fully full.
The water filter is rather dangerously wobbly. It really should be connected to the mains directly but this is not my house. One needs to take great care extracting freshly filtered water from it. The last topple the filter encountered saw a new cone top at a whopper of a price.
It now also runs really slowly in this house for some inexplicable reason. I always imagine it is taking it’s time and making extra sure the water is REALLY clean! Finally a full litre later…
Where the bloody hell is the plastic cap for the glass water bottle? What the…?
I looked on the centre counter, on the sink, on the floor, on the counters, on the sink, on the floors, behind the dustbin, behind the vertical wooden planter. I looked in the fridge – just in case… NOTHING!
So I gave up and put the now full bottle sans cap back in the fridge. Perhaps if I hide it behind it’s other 2 sisters it will simply materialise upon first light – morning light, not the fridge light!
“Where the BEEP BEEP is the BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEEEEP cap?” I said throwing my hands into the air in anger and frustration! It one magical swoop out from my jersey sleeve popped the wayward plastic cap!
Now I could go to bed happy in the knowledge that I had dabbled in riddle and solved the mystery!
