Whenever Danelle tells me to be ESPECIALLY quiet because she's sick... or tired... . ... or sick... and really needs sleep... ... ... I take this as a direct invitation to wake up the cracked kettle smashing giant bear on roller skates...
... and... oh... ya... he wakes up... right around the time Danelle in in her deepest sleep... fully roused... he up and does something stupid... and loud... . ... loud and stupid...
... Until he trips over the power chord and smashes the computer on the ground... knocks over the coffee table, slamming a glass bowl into pieces... glass flying everywhere... spoon making incredibly too loud a noise on the wood floor... ... ... he's slamming cupboards... doors... pulling the earphones out of the computer to a full blast episode of "The Office"... and... sometimes... when it's really good... laughing... laughing at this... sure it's on of the greatest television shows of all time... but still... while this girl is trying to sleep in the other room... the sheer audacity...
... And here is mild-mannerd ME stuck running around the place trying to put out these fires... trying to make the thing shut up... it seems the big goof just doesn't care...
... Just tonight the TV remote that just happened to the floor... pointed directly at the TV... and that those big paws wouldn't just step on it... . ... of any button... that button... the only one that would do anything to that TV... ... . ... with extreme high-pitched noise... a small dot of white spreading out from the middle of the screen... a moments anger... the stupid, stupid bear... scramble, in the pitch black of 3 AM... in the broken glass... around fallen over coffee table... through tangled power chords... the next 5 careful seconds are a small, quiet, frustrating battle against time... searching... finding... button mashing... (the TV has picture... but moments from sound)... (curse that stupid bear)... turning the remote aroun-...
... welcome to CNN... ... ... the British version of American news... in all its glory... we are presented with all its boring ivory tower of calmness... all it's dead pan faces... no panic... no emotion... just the story... well how about this for a story CNN... there is a GIANT BEAR in my living room, he refuses to go to sleep, and he is eating all of Danelle's favorite potato chips!...
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