I tend to wake up later than Laurie does as she has this very annoying habit of hitting the pillow one second and being asleep the next. I think this is very rude on her part as it takes me two to three hours to fall asleep while she lays there in peaceful slumber showing me up.

Of course none of this pertains to the actual subject of this post except that the above states the reason as to why I wake up later than she does. I still think it’s rude though, lying there asleep as I stare at imaginary patterns on the ceiling while the cat tries to sleep on my face.

This morning was a bit different though from the usual fall out of bed, get up and stagger in the general direction of her computer desk where she’s usually occupied with cursing at Facebook because it’s not working correctly and kissing the back of her head good morning.

Not that all the above didn’t occur but this time her normal response of hugging the arm I put around her shoulders (keeps me from falling over) and telling me how Facebook isn’t working properly, peppered with all sorts of colorful descriptive adjectives and various blue tinted invectives, she sneezed on my arm instead and stated:

“I think I’m allergic to nine o’clock”, she says.

Being the considerate sort of fellow that I am I unleashed my sneeze lashed arm from around her front, reached for the tissue box, handed it to her and took myself off to the bathroom to shower her 9:00 allergies off my arm. Since I found that showering a single appendage was causing the water to run down my arm, down the side of my body and getting the bathroom rug all wet, I decided to stuff the rest of myself into the shower as well seeing as it was Tuesday and all. So getting sneezed upon wasn’t a total loss.

Is there an allergy medicine for being allergic to a specific time of day? There better be because if I start sneezing when the bell tolls 9:00 AM, I’m going to have a word with my wife.